Spider-Man (2002 video game)
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| Spider-Man: The Movie | |
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 North American Player's Choice cover art for GameCube |
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| Developer(s) | Treyarch, Digital Eclipse Software |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Designer(s) | Tomo Moriwaki (creative dir.), Akihiro Akaike (lead designer) |
| Engine | Treyarch proprietary |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo GameCube, Xbox, PC, PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance |
| Release date(s) | Windows NA April 14, 2002 PAL June 7, 2002 GC, PS2, & Xbox NA April 15, 2002 PAL June 7, 2002 Game Boy Advance NA April 16, 2002 PAL June 7, 2002 |
| Genre(s) | Action, beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Rating(s) | ELSPA: 11+ ESRB: E OFLC: Mature PEGI: 7+ |
Spider-Man is an action game based upon the Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man, and is directly based on the first feature film starring the eponymous character. It was developed by Treyarch and released in 2002 for PC and several video game consoles. The game has many scenes and villains that did not appear in the film. It was followed by Spider-Man 2 two years later to promote the release of the second film. Then, in 2007, to promote the release of the third film, Spider-Man 3: The Video Game was released.
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[edit] Plot
Peter Parker develops super-spider powers after being bitten by a genetically altered spider. The game opens with a tutorial, narrated by Bruce Campbell, where Peter learns to use his powers and the player learns the controls of the game and how to read the HUD. After competing in a wrestling match as Spider-Man, Peter is devastated when his uncle Ben is killed by the leader of the Skulls gang. Peter uses his new powers to track down and defeat the murderer. Peter vows to use his powers for good and put an end to evil in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn and OsCorp are investigating the appearance of this new hero. Anxious to develop his Human Performance Enhancer "Super-Soldier" Serum, the main goals of which are already exhibited by the super-hero, Osborn orders the capture of Spider-Man, deploying hunter-killer robots for this purpose. Spider-Man fights these robots and emerges victorious. Meanwhile, the Shocker has just robbed a bank, and is driving away with his thugs as Spidey lands, only to be hit by Vulture. Spider-Man goes after Shocker first. His battle with Shocker leads him through Grand Central Station, into the sewers and to a subway station, where Spider-Man defeats him in a climactic battle. Afterwards, Shocker tells Spider-Man about Vulture's lair: an old clocktower on the Lower East Side of town. Spider-Man defeats Vulture atop the Chrysler building.
Osborn's scientists tell him that now two individuals with arachnid DNA are at large in Manhattan, and Osborn orders the capture of both. Spider-shaped robots pursue a desperate Scorpion through the sewers. Peter goes down to the subways to take pictures of his battle site with Shocker, when he runs into Scorpion. After Spider-Man helps Scorpion defeat the machines, the apparently paranoid and unhinged Scorpion turns on Spidey, and they fight. Spider-Man wins, but the Scorpion escapes. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn is fired from OsCorp and takes his own untested super-soldier serum to become the forever-feared Green Goblin. Spider-Man defeats the Goblin at the yearly OsCorp Unity Day Festival. Later, Goblin confronts Spider-Man again and is defeated, but tells Spider-Man of bombs planted downtown. Spidey races against time to defuse the bombs, and is attacked again by Green Goblin, this time with deadly small devices called razor bats.
If, on the Xbox version, Norman hires Kraven the Hunter after the bomb threat to capture Spider-Man; he poisons him, sends him through the zoo corridors filled with traps before being defeated in a cage match in the main area of the zoo.
After studying a wing of a felled razor bat and determining that it was manufactured by OsCorp, Spider-Man goes to OsCorp to research its connection with the Goblin. He discovers that the company is producing highly dangerous chemical weapons, and shuts down the operation. After finding out about the Goblin's plot to capture and kill Mary Jane, Spider-Man chases him down to a bridge. Here, Spider-Man has his final battle with the Green Goblin, who is impaled by his own glider. Spider-Man unmasks the Goblin to reveal Norman Osborn's face. Osborn's last words are, "Tell Harry, I'm sorry." Spider-Man replies, "I'm sorry, too." Mary Jane and Spider-Man are reunited, they kiss, and the game ends.
[edit] Characters/Cast
- Peter Parker/Spider-Man (voiced by Tobey Maguire)
- Green Goblin/Norman Osborn (voiced by Willem Dafoe)
- Mary Jane Watson (voiced by Cat O'Conner)
- Harry Osborn (voiced by Josh Keaton)
- Shocker/Herman Schultz (voiced by Michael Beattie)
- Vulture/Adrian Toomes (voiced by Dwight Schultz)
- Scorpion/Mac Gargan (voiced by Mike McColl)
- Mendel Stromm (voiced by Peter Lurie)
- Kraven the Hunter/Sergei Kravinoff (voiced by Neil Kaplan)
- The Narrator (voiced by Bruce Campbell)
- J. Jonah Jameson (voiced by Jay Gordon)
- Bone Saw McGraw (voiced by Jay Gordon)
- Security Guard (voiced by Dan Gilvezan)
[edit] Gameplay
Spider-Man is a level based action game, with you playing as Spider-Man. Half the levels are indoors, but the rest of the levels are outside among the sky-scrapers of New York and require you to web-sling from building to building. Levels are in "sections" with a different enemy for each, each section lasting about 3 levels. Each level, except for the last two, has a bonus screen after it. Generally, there are the bonuses "Time" (clear level in a set time), "Perfect" (Not take damage/detected) and "Style" (use as many combos as possible). Other level-specific ones are "Secrets" (Uncover a secret area), "Combat" (Defeat all enemies). Players can gain, depending on difficulty, points on completing these tasks. On Easy mode, each bonus is 500 points, Normal is 700, and Super-Hero is 1000 each.
The basic abilities are swinging, zipping, punching and kicking, web, camera lock, and the Web Mode in Enhanced Mode. Depending on how you combine different buttons, it makes different effects. Wall-crawling is automatic, and players are also able to lift up heavy and light objects such as cars and chairs. There are 21 different combat combos which Gold Spiders are used to gain these combos, with 4 web controls, each having a type of "upgrade" to each. There is also "stealth mode", where Spider-Man is in shadow, and therefore is undetectable by enemies. This is necessary to gain extra points in the game.
After completing the story mode of the game, an unlockable bonus allows the player to play any level in the game as Harry Osborn in his father's Green Goblin costume, complete with his glider and arsenal. Unlockable costumes for Spider-Man include Peter Parker in his civilian clothes, the homemade wrestling outfit from the movie, and acclaimed comic book artist Alex Ross' prototype design for the movie Spider-Man costume, which also triggers the Goblin to wear Ross' early design for him in your battles with him
[edit] Enemies
- Bone Saw (In the training mode "Basic Combat") - It should be noted that this character isn't present on the gba version.
- Dennis "Spike" Carradine‡
- Herman Shultz/Shocker‡
- Adrian Toomes/Vulture‡
- Mac Gargan/Scorpion‡
- Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven The Hunter (Xbox and Game Boy Advance versions Only) ‡
- Norman Osborn/Green Goblin‡
- Oscorp Super Mech‡
- OsCorp Lite Mechs
- OsCorp Super Soldiers
- OsCorp Guards
- Skull Gang Thugs
- Shocker's Thugs
‡ The character is a Boss
[edit] Reception
The critical reviews were good, with many critics at the time considering it the best Spider-Man game yet.[1] However, criticism fell on the indoor levels,[2] Tobey Maguire's voice acting[3] and bad camera. As well as the fact that it was too short and could be completed in 3 hours[4] Even for these flaws, this game was good enough to get an 8.4 out of 10 from IGN,[3] a 9.3 out of 10 from GamePro[citation needed] and 4 out of 5 from GameSpy.
High sales (two million copies of the PlayStation 2 version[5] and over 400,000 on the GameCube and Xbox[6]) were sold in North America alone, allowing the game to enter the "Best-Sellers" of each console (PS2's Greatest Hits, GameCube's Player's Choice and Xbox's Platinum Hits). It was recently promoted to "Best of Platinum Hits" on the Xbox.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Spider-Man: The Movie". Game Rankings. http://www.gamerankings.com/itemrankings/launchreview.asp?reviewid=70914.
- ^ "Review". GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/spidermanthemovie/review.html?page=2.
- ^ a b "Review". IGN. http://ps2.ign.com/articles/357/357552p4.html.
- ^ "Review". GameSpy. http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/april02/spidermanxbox.
- ^ "US Platinum Chart". http://www.the-magicbox.com/Chart-USPlatinum.shtml.
- ^ "Spider-Man: The Movie going cheap". GameSpot. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/spidermanthemovie/news.html?sid=6029305.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Spider-Man at GameSpot
- Spider-Man games on Marvel.com
- Spider-Man at the Internet Movie Database
- Spider-Man: The Movie at MobyGames
- Game reviews at Game Rankings
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