This paper is concerned with long-time dynamics of semilinear wave equations defined on bounded domains of R3 with cubic nonlinear terms and locally distributed damping. The existence of regular finite-dimensional global attractors established by Chueshov, Lasiecka and Toundykov (2008) reflects a good deal of the current state of the art on this matter. Our contribution is threefold. First, we prove uniform boundedness of attractors with respect to a forcing parameter. Then, we study the continuity of attractors with respect to the parameter in a residual dense set. Finally, we show the existence of generalized exponential attractors. These aspects were not previously considered for wave equations with localized damping.