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Not Spider-Man's best

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 27, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Spider-Man has been in a lot of games in his career, from his first adventure on the Atari to the recent game for the Playstation. Between the two, this Genesis game came out and it didn't exactly set the gaming world on fire. What you're looking at here is a very average game that doesn't do our friend Spidey justice. The gameplay is just too bland and repetitive for it to be fun. While it does have plenty of his best villians, it doesn't make it any more enjoyable. Graphics are good, sound is okay, but there are better games out there. Sadly, the Playstation Spider-Man game has been the only game to truly capture what Spidey's all about. If you have a Playstation, pick that one up. But for you Genesis owners, you're out of luck.

Too short.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

And not much in the way of playability. I liked the feature of taking pictures and selling them the Daily Bugle but there's not much else going on. There are only 6 levels and some of them, like the power station, are REALLY short. I liked this game when I was younger but I was used to more simpler games then. But it doesn't really even push the limited (then wonderful) capabilities of the Genesis. The graphics are very basic and Spiderman doesn't get much of a workout other than some unspectacular swinging around. There's also a very pointless 'go home for a while' feature that has no use whatsoever.

Don't get me wrong, it's miles better than that awful Spiderman/X-Men game but still not too Amazing. Pick it up cheap, finish it then trade it.

Hint: You MUST play the game on Nightmare mode to finish it otherwise you'll only get a couple of levels.

A challenge!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Spiderman is a very good game. Despite it's below par graphics it has some great levels. One thing I found frustrating was the difficulty of this game. The levels are very long and have many twists and turns (a good and bad trait). Another thing I loved was that it made me feel like I had Spider Strength!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pretty decent

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fairly entertaining, with each level being different and bosses like the Sandman, Lizard, HobGoblin, Venem, & ultimately the Kingpin. Swinging around on webs is pretty fun, and you can make a web shield and if your energy is low you can go home and rest for a bit. The game is timed, so you don't have a certain amount of lives. Where it went wrong, for me at least, is in the end where you essentially have to disable a bomb by entering different keys when their corresponding color flashes. It's pretty frustrating when you mess up and the timer starts running faster and then the bomb goes off and you have to start back at the beginning. If you do disable the bomb, which I have only accomplished 2 or 3 times, then you get your butt kicked by the Kingpin.

Spiderman vs. the kingpin...and many more enemies

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Its actually funny how i got this game. I won spiderman the animated series game for the genesis off ebay and the seller showed a picture of that game! After delayed waiting, i get THIS. a spiderman game i wanted to avoid...its not as bad as i thought...This game isnt as cool as separation anxiety or maximum carnage but its more spiderman related. This time around, you gotta stop kingpin who framed you saying you made a bomb that will explode in 24 hours an everyone (stupidly) believed him and are hunting for you. You have health and limited web which can be refilled by (interestingly) taking pictures of enemies or bosses, getting cash, and trading it in for web and to prove your innocence (err...i guess). you can attack, web shoot, web shield (which is useful against some bosses), or rest at your house to refill life at anytime in a level which is a gay feature because you have to start the level over and you lose time fast (i better explain the time huh?). Ok so you have a time limit through the whole game which is supposed to be 24 hours in the game but more like 2 hours in real life. you gotta beat bosses like electro, doc ock, the lizard, venom (which is the only fun boss because the rest have a pattern...yes even electro.) and more where you collect keys from them and you have to put in the right combination to stop the bomb...which is HELL stopping the bomb cuz u gotta get the 5 keys in order right an u only get 3 tries or...BOOM! game over! start from the VERY beggining! thats why this gets 4 stars. I only got past the bomb thing ONCE. Then its showdown time with the kingpin. Oh an for those who make it to him, remember to keep an eye out for mj...or its back to the start... you can web zip in the air but unfortunatly, this is one of those "indoor" spidey games. I recommend using the cheat code for this game (the one that requires 2 controllers) cuz even with it, this game is still tough! Well ok only the bomb part. You wanna play the best spidey game ever made so far, check out spiderman 2 for the xbox, PS2, and gamecube. And no, spiderman 2 does not get boring like people say. it only gets boring for alittle if you play it "24 hours" straight.

UPDATE 1.1

I know how to deactivate the bomb at the last level!!! Ok so this is what you do. you will see 2 colors flashing on the bomb. the colors are black and one of the 5 key colors. pull out that colored key from the pause menu and press the web button as soon as the bomb flashes on the color (you have to time this so you dont press when its black but its still easy). Now the bomb will flash all 5 colors and the black color. wait until the bomb only flashes black and another color and do the same as above until you use every key and deactivate the bomb! Now you can take the vents on the right and take on king pin...who is very very hard because its kinda like in the spiderman for playstation where you gotta save mj from sinking from the water while fighting venom except now you are fighting kingpin and saving mj from falling in a tub of fire. so here is a tip when fighting kingpin... when you see mj sinking, web the top chain to prevent her from falling. But the web will soon disapear so you gotta keep doin this while handling kingpin. For if mj dies, its game over as if the bomb were to detonate (meaning you go back to the title screen). Watch out for kingpins punches for they send you flying back to the other side of the room. Now that i know the bomb combination, i gave the game 5 stars instead of 4 and im not gonna cheat anymore =D have fun and good luck!

Does whatever a spider can

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the best Spider-Man games available! Right up there with Maximum Carnage and the recent Spider-man 2. The animation is smooth and making spidey webswing is is not a chore (unlike some of the earlier spider-man games). The boss battles against spidey's rouges gallery are all very comic booky, and I like how taking pictures during the levels is integrated into your overall success. If there's only one gripe I have about it, it's that it is very difficult. Other than that, this is a very well done game.

This is a classic...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I can remember playing this game when I was a youngin'. This is a classic. It features many differnt facets of Spidey-life, and you are very much Peter Parker as you are Spider Man. This may be just another side scroller beat'n'bash game, but it's a derned innovative and fun one. Check it out!

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