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The worst game I have ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: December 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it had Superman on the front. Big mistake. The graphics are horrible and far too simple for the N64. The gameplay is awkward and hard to control. But the worst part of this game is the story. It took about 2 seconds to think up and the game spends just as much time on the storyline. The whole point is boring- flying through endless hoops and other monotonous unexciting tasks. This game is horrible. Buy Spiderman instead- at least you wont want to throw Spiderman out of the window.

Dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: December 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is OK, but there is one big problem with it. My friend brought his to my house the other day and I began playing it. And in, at the most, 2 hours, I beat it! No memory pak needed. There are only like 5 or 6 bosses in the game and the rest is just mindless slinging from one thing to another killing all the baddies. There are so many mini little puzzle type things that are just too easy and useless. He brought it over again last night and I beat it again--on hard difficulty. This game was a great idea, and the graphics and sound are great... but c'mon guys, you coulda done better than that.

The best Spiderman game.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game has an extensive bunch of moves, maneuvers, special items, secrets and it has a huge amount of Spiderman memorabilia in it. This is a very detailed Spiderman game because it is a whole 3D world, you as Spiderman or one of his six playable alter egos can swing from building to building, hang upside-down, create a web shield, web the band guys or create web boxing gloves. Everyone is included, like Venom, Carnage, the Scorpion, Rhino, and a 50 ft Mysterio. You must beat them each in a unique way, rather than just beating them up. There are twenty-five levels, however, the big downfall is that you can beat the game from beginning to end in only two or three hours, which makes it like a movie. To add playability to the game you can pick up secret outfits, characters, 3D profiles on bad guys and even comicbook covers documenting the history of the comic.

Kind of sticky...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Spider Man turned out to be more than I had originally suspected, but it didn't live up to the expectations everyone else had set for it. -- Spider Man, if anything noteworthy, allows you to swing from building to building and crawl up walls. Cheers to that! An ingenius idea that's really fun, but the game doesn't give us enough time to enjoy it. What I really wanted to be able to do in Spider Man was swing freely around on top of buildings and beat up unsuspecting thugs. Yes, you can do that... in the first level. All other levels either take place inside cramped living quarters, or are timed races. Hence, this game keeps you on the move and leaves very little time to merely "dink around." Spider Man is also short lived and for little "extra rewards." It'll surely keep you entertained all the way until the end, but I wish there was something more to do once it was over.

A little disappointing but the best Spider Man game so far.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I thought I would wait til I finished to review this game, but I have grown very tired of having to start at the beginning of each level over and over. There are checkpoints in the levels, but I often stop in the middle and leave the game on and it always hangs so I have to reload from my nvram pack which saves only at the start of the level.

Rants : annoying game save. It can only see one controller so you are constantly swapping in and out your rumblepack.

poor control. there are some mortal combat like sequences which cause certain web events and combos, but they only work one time out of two for me so they are pretty useless when fighting.

web swinging is essentially 2d. You have no momentum side to side.

Spider sense is never helpful.

The action getting to some of the bosses is boring. Reminicent of some of the early LucasArts jedi games.

Raves : Well its spiderman, the sounds and voices are good, the enemy AI is fine, and the bosses are all challenging so far. Its fun to have spider powers in a 3d space too.

Conclusion : I think team mario could have really done something with this concept. This plays like a lazy port from an inferior platform (which I guess it is), but its still a must have for spiderman fans.

Fun Game!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 30
Date: November 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Spiderman is a very cool game for the N64. It's fun and challenging. The graphics are spectacular; better than the playstation version. It supports expansion pak for even better graphics and you MUST have a controller pak to save your game. The sound is good, just as good as the playstation version. HOWEVER, all the Full Motion Videos(FMV) in the playstation were cut out and replaced with a comic book pictures with sound effects. I liked the psx FMV better than the comic book though. MOST IMPORTANTLY are the controls. They're just awful. The standard for N64 controls is the B button for attacking and A for jumping. In spiderman, C down is used for punching, C left kicking. B button is used for zipping upwards on a web line which you hardly use. I've been playing for 7 hours and still haven't gotten used to the controls. So all in all, if you can stand missing the FMV, and the awful control scheme, you'll love this game every bit as much(if not more) than the playstation version. I give it a 4/5 stars because of the bad control and lack of FMV.

I get to be Spiderman!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 14, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Forgive me if I sound too enthusiastic, but I love this game! It is just plain fun. What kid (or adult!) has not dreamed of being able to climb walls like Spiderman or shoot web and swing from building to building? You get to do all this and more in this game. It comes complete with 4 levels of play (including Kid level). The graphics are very good and interspersed with comic pages. Game on!

Good action game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I might just be a little partial to spiderman but this is one of the best games I have played in the last few months. A few of the good points are spidey can stick to walls, shot his web in differnt forms, and the farther you get the more suits you earn. The added bonus of finding special items in the game is challenging. The only thing that I can say bad about this game is that on the normal difficulty level I beat it in less than 24 hours. I still have yet to find all the missing comics and costumes. I suggest if you like action games that you buy this game.

Playstation does better what a spider can

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was the 3D Spider-Man game that redefined how to faithfully translate comic books to the video game medium. You play as Peter Parker/Spider-Man, framed for a crime you didn't commit. You'll web-swing through the city, crawl through sewers, bust up secret labs, and take on a host of your most deadly adversaries. While the camera and controls weren't perfect, this was the first time you really felt like you were playing as Spider-Man, instead of some generic platforming character with Spider-Man graphics. The wall crawling looks and feels right, and there are multiple uses for your webbing. It's the game every Spider-Man game since has built from.

The N64 port is pretty accurate to the Playstation original in terms of raw gameplay, but it sacrifices some of the presentation. Notably, the fmv cutscenes have been replaced with slide shows of stills from the fmv, with text dialogue. It still gets the story across pretty well, but loses some of the character that comes from voice acting and animation. Elsewhere you lose the vocals to the spider-man theme from the start screen, and also an extra costume in the unlockables section.

If you only had an N64, this was still a great purchase. But if you had a Playstation, that is definitely the better version to get.

Spider-Man, could it be as good as it sounds?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First, when I heard about Spider-Man ..., I could not wait to get it. Now that I have it, I don't think it is perfect. This game is [terrible] when compared to [other] games .... First, the graphics of Spider-Man was very good (except some levels where you can't see Spider-Man because he is far away from the view)but the sound is below average for N64 standards. The music does a good job for fitting the mood but the quality is bad. N64 has a list of about 190 games with CD-quality sound and a list of 30 games with surround and dolby surround sound. Spider-Man, on the other hand, is very quiet and cannot get much louder. Buy this game if you like a red cartridge and action but don't care about sound quality but rent this game if you are used to games like Perfect Dark. All in all, Spider-Man is a great game but when compared to top N64 games, it is [terrible].

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