Spider-Man (2002 video game)

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Developer(s) Treyarch (consoles) Digital Eclipse Software (Game Boy Advance) 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 April 15, 2002 Genre(s) Action game, Beat 'em up Mode(s) Single player Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone (E)


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 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.

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Synopsis

Peter Parker, after winning a wrestling match, discovers that his uncle has been killed by the Skull gang. Peter, using his radioactive powers gained from the bite of a genetically engineered spider, tracks down the Skull gang at an abandoned warehouse and avenges his uncle's death. He then vows to use his powers for good. Peter, now Spiderman, proceeds to take on evil scandals, such as supervillain alliances (Shocker and Vulture) and ruthless, fame seeking hunters (Kraven). He even takes on a mutant in an arthropod suit (Scorpion) and infiltrates a building full of laser shooting robots. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn, head of the company Oscorp, tests a strength serum on himself, turning into the Green Goblin. He offers for Spiderman to join him in evil, but he refuses. In a climatic final battle on a bridge, the Goblin tries to kill Spiderman using his glider. Spidey, however, dodges it. The Green Goblin is impaled instead, finally ending his reign of terror.

Gameplay

Spider-Man is a level based action game, with you playing as Spider-Man. Most levels are indoors, but some levels 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). You 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 you are also able to lift up heavy and light objects. 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 Spidey is in shadow, and therefore is undetectable by enemies. This is necessary to gain extra points in the game.

Enemies

Here is a list of enemies in the game.

Secret Characters

Green Goblin-Harry Osborn By completing the game on the 'Hero' difficulty, the player unlocked the ability to play as Harry Osborn, wearing his father's Green Goblin gear. An easy way to unlock the ability to play as Harry is to put the code "romitas" in and change the difficulty to super-hero, then watch the conclusion. (the code for ps2 is "arachnid")

Instead of the film's plot line, the story as the Goblin is Harry Osborn, having discovered his father was the Green Goblin, is trying to uncover his father's links to the criminal underworld and redeem his family's name. When the player reaches the levels where Spider-Man faced the Green Goblin, the boss is still the Goblin, speaking with a distorted version of Norman Osborn's voice. Although this character's identity is never confirmed, he repeatedly claims he's the next man in line to take over Oscorp after Norman Osborn's death. A possibility is that the "other" Green Goblin is Professor Stromm, or one of the Hobgoblins. Another possibility, due to the fact that the bad Green Goblin speaks with a distorted version of Norman's voice, is that this Goblin is still Norman either with damage to his voice box following his fight with Spider-Man, or microphone in the suit to make his voice sound different.

Although the levels are exactly the same for the Green Goblin as they are for Spider-Man, it seems that Spider-Man has already been and beat the villains before the Green Goblin arrives. Evidence for this is when Vulture mentions that he had already had to bother with another costumed cretin (presumably Spider-Man).

Due to the game being designed for Spider-Man, some of the levels (Such as the race levels) are easier due to the Goblin riding on his glider, whereas some are harder due to sequences designed for web swinging.

In addition to the weapons used by the boss character (Pumpkin Bombs, Razor Bats and the Glider's gatling gun), the Green Goblin has the ability to run at super speed, and the ability to drop bombs from the glider.

Like with Spider-Man, if you fly close to the ground, people will start talking about him, i.e. a civilian will say something along the lines of "Oh no, it's the Green Goblin!" and Harry will respond "Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt anyone!" Harry Osborn also does the double jump move of Spider-Man and uses all of Spider-Man's combat moves.

Alex Ross When Completeing the game on Hard difficulty, you unlock Alex Ross he is the same as Spider-man but has the Ben Rilley web-shooters and Ben Rilley's pattens but it is Red and Black he uses all of Spider-man's combat moves and civilans when you are close to the ground(about that I don't know). When are Alex Ross you versus the Comic Look Goblin and he has a different type of his suit. His suit looks like he is a Goblin and his glider is changed and that also he sounds a bit differnt then the normal Green Goblin and he of cause says different quotes then Norman does to Peter then from Alex. In the level where you first versus him you'll notice that he is different from Norman and when his Glider comes in that it is like Norman's in the comics. In the level titled Conclusion, the goblin looks like he does in the movie and in the game without any extra costumes.

Extra Characters:

Peter Parker-Easy Wreslting Spidey-Normal Other Skins-Cheats

Reception

The critical reviews were good, with many critics at the time considering it the best Spider-Man game yet.Spider-Man: The Movie at Game Rankings However, criticism fell on the indoor levels,Review at GameSpot Tobey Maguire's voice acting Review at IGN and bad camera.<ref>Review at GameSpy Even for these flaws, this game was good enough to get an 8.4 from IGN, a 9.3 from gamepro, 80/100 from gamespy and a 9 worldwide.

High sales (two million copies of the Playstation 2 version<ref>US Platinum Chart and over 400,000 on the GameCube and XboxSpider-Man: The Movie going cheap, GameSpot) 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). (Recently promoted to " Best of Platinum Hits " on the Xbox.

Differences from the Film

  • In the game, the man who killed Uncle Ben is a member of a gang of thugs known as the Skulls gang. In the movie, he appeared to operate alone, although Spider-Man 3 revealed he was in league with Flint Marko. In the game, he is referred to by gang members only as Spike, and in the game's artwork galleries as Butch. Spider-Man 3 refers to him as Dennis 'Spike' Carradine.
  • In the game, Norman sees Spider-Man as the key to completing the company's Human-Performance Enhancers, and sends Hunter Killer Drones to capture him. In the movie, this does not happen, and they both get their powers at around the same time.
  • In the game, the board fires Norman before he tests the Oz Serum on himself, after which he takes the serum. In the movie, Norman became the Green Goblin when he tested the Oz Serum on himself, and is later fired when the board decides to sell the company.
  • In the game, Spider-Man must rescue [Mary Jane Watson|[Mary Jane]] from a balloon at the World Unity Day Festival(there seems to be nothing wrong because MJ is just standing on the balloon). In the film, she's trapped on a crumbling balcony of the Oscorp building. Also, it is night in the game, although the cinematic that introduces the level takes place during the day, which is the time the festival took place in the movie.
  • In the game, Norman never finds out who Spider-Man is, and kidnaps Mary Jane because one of his robots took a picture of her kissing Spider-Man. In the movie, Norman finds out Peter is Spider-Man when he sees the cut on his arm from the razor bat, and kidnaps Mary Jane after Harry tells him that Peter is in love with her.
  • In the game, Spider-Man was pursued by razor bats while swinging above the city. In the movie, he faces them in a burning building after being tricked by the Green Goblin.
  • Oscorp plays a bigger role in the game than it does in the film, as Spider-Man must investigate the company itself after discovering a connection between it and the Green Goblin.
  • At the end of the game, the Green Goblin is killed on the Queensboro Bridge by being run over at a fast speed by his glider. In the movie, he and Spider-Man fight first on the bridge, and then go to an abandoned building where the Green Goblin is impaled by the glider. The Roosevelt Island cable cars in the movie are also absent in the game. As he dies in the game, Norman tells Spider-Man to "Tell Harry I'm sorry". This is in stark contrast to the movie, in which Norman's last words are "Peter, Don't tell Harry".
  • The GBA version of the game is a little more controversial: The final battle has Goblin being decked by Spider-Man first (in the playable boss level). Then the cutscene shows the Goblin get up and try to flee just as the glider swoops in and knocks him off the bridge, apparently killing him. But when Spider-Man and MJ hug at the end, MJ says that "Goblin and his cronies are in jail", implying that Goblin was recovered and arrested.

References To Comic Books

  • If one webswings low to the streets in City levels, people on the ground will see him and note his presence. One of these people will say "Look! It's The Spider-Man!", and Spider-Man will say "It's just Spider-Man, there's no The," an apparent reference to the line in the 1960s Spider-Man theme song "Look out, Here comes The Spider-Man!" Also, two men again reference the theme by going "Whoa, it's Spider-Man!" "Spider-Man? Is he strong?" "'Strong?' Listen bud, I heard he's got radioactive blood!"
  • Additionally, a civilian may say "Look, look up there, it's...Spider-Man" then Spider-Man says "Just stay away from that bird and plane metaphors, that's that other guy." in reference to the phrase commonly associated with Superman, "Look up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane... It's Superman!"
  • In the X-Box version, Spidey complains about people setting things on fire to get his attention and should get a Spider-Signal. This is a reference to both Batman and the classic equipment he uses to show thugs what they are up against.

Deleted Idea

According to an interview with a member of the Treyarch team in the Spider-Man BradyGames strategy guide, there was a level created for this game that involved the player rescuing civilians from a burning building. However, due to the events of September 11, the team scrapped it, so they didn't appear insensitive when the game was released.This was rumored to be the first level in Spider Man 3.

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