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Terrible and horrifying.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 31
Date: November 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

PARENTS--KEEP YOUR CHILDREN AWAY! Unless of course your children like seeing kids their own age slaughtered. That's what Venom does. Plus all the bad language. Oh, and the jogger who get pulled into the bushes by Venom's tentacles and killed by him, all the while screaming. Even Spidey himself has his bad points by frequently using the word "suck." I have always personally hated the Ultimate Spider-man comics for thier gore and violence, and the game is just as bad, if not worse.

Ultimate Is Right!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is the ultimate spiderman experience, unbeleivable cast (you actualy get into bar fight with Wolverine!!!), great webslinging dynamics (no more swinging from nothing, you have to be next to the buildings to swing your webs, and when you let go the webs still hanging from the building), and the best boss battles I have ever played (better then Halos, God of war's, X-men Legends) If you enjoy the comics and/or the movies, pick this up right way.........

Quite possibly my most favorite game ever.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved the first Spider-Man PSOne game, it is my favorite game. The other games have been o.k. as well, but it takes a considerable amount of fun to get me to play a game for more than an hour. Spider-Man 2 (PS2) had serious potential but some crappy boss missions (i.e. Quentin Beck/Mysterio). This game, playability wise is extremely enjoyable. But as a hardcore MARVEL fan it's the visuals that are seriously astounding. It looks exactly like a 3D version of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book. The intro movie is acyually an animated version of the first (and so far only) confrontation with Ultimate Venom.

The only complaint I have of the game is the requirement of "races" in getting to the next level. In order to get to the next objective they will require you to compete in and win a certain number of races. Not exactly what I would consider a true "virtual Spider-Man" experience, if there are villains to be fought and people to save why would you waste your time on a obstacle course? But, there are plently of easy races to start with so you can soar through the first stages.

Depending on whether or not I'm able to keep playing the game and not get sick of it, this game stands to be my most favorite game ever. Only time will tell. If you're an actual gamer though, you will probably love this game.

Great.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I dont know what the other people are talking about here saying this game wasn't great. But it is. This game is even better than the other two spider-man games. The grapics is wayyyyy better. The story more exicting because it follows the ulitmate spiderman comicbooks. It has alot of humaour because peter always cracks jokes. I found this game better than any other spider man game and that's saying alot. All the other games were buggy and not up to par. But with this one they really nailed it. Even the boss battles are fun.

Ultimate Spiderman...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ultimate Spider-man is very similar to its original Spider-Man 2. All though The game is fun, players from the previous game will have slighty tuff time trying figure out the knew controlls. For an example I'd say the Web Slinging. In the last game when you swong a web you'd press the jump button to release and preform all these tricks by pressing the jump button free falling in the air. In this game, You only have to press one button to shoot a web and the same button to let go. Second is the charge jump. You can't charge a jump and make Spiderman go 2 storys in the air by that. All though you still can jump far distances. A good reason to buy this game is because of the abbilitie to switch from Spidey to Venom. Venom on the other hand can not web sling. Instead Like the Hulk jumps enormous distances. In Hulk Ultimate Destruction you had to charge you far jump. In this Venom, you just tap a button and he does it, which I love.

Overal this game is great. A great game for the comic fans and for video game fans as well. Its a perfect choice if you have $50 burning a hole in ur pocket and your lookin for a game.
Conclusion:
8.9/10

Great game with a few very frustrating flaws.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't want to make this really long, so I'll skip the sheer amounts of praise I have for this game. I really do like it and don't regret buying it. Story mode is somewhat short, but there are substantial extras. However...and here come the complaints.

Wall crawling is insane. Actually managing to go in the direction you want to go is quite difficult, and good luck with it at all if you're near a corner of any kind.

The extras are decent. The method for getting them has one major flaw. The tokens. The unlockable costumes are fairly mundane save the last one, which requires you to find 190 tokens hidden, some quite well, all over the city. Basically, once you have gone through the immense frustration of finding the tokens, you then finish the races and combat tours and city events, then you get the costume. Congratulations on the cool costume, you also happen to be completely done with the game. So what are you going to do with the costume? Make the unlockable costumes and things of that sort able to be unlocked quickly, so the players can have fun with them WHILE they play the game, instead of making them the endgame reward.

The combat tours are fun and challenging after a while. The races are for the most part fun, but can become extremely frustrating. This isn't so much a complaint as an observation. I don't expect every aspect, especially races, to be easily completed the first time through.

Overall, I really like this game, despite the flaws. It's a great game to just pick up after a while, swing around the city and punch a few guys, then switch to Venom and go on a smashing rampage. If a similar game with even more characters to choose from and less frustrating methods of getting them comes out, I'll pick it up with no reservations whatsoever.

Great game, but could have been a lot better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I rented this game before I bought it, so I knew what I was getting. I also bought the Spiderman 2 game used and beat it before playing this and was disappointed by the total lack of unlockables it had. Plus it was way too short. So I was looking forward to all the nifty stuff Ultimate Spiderman had to unlock. The trouble is, they took a lot of what made Spiderman 2 a good game, out of it in order to do so. That would be things like buying moves, a tutorial mode, a choice between web swinging modes, and Bruce Campbell. ;-) That and it turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be.

I love the way the game looks. The whole comic book aspect works for Spiderman and I found that I prefer this over the look of Spiderman 2 in most cases. Especially during the cut scenes. I've only read a few Ultimate Spiderman comics, so I have a vague idea of the reality in which this takes place, but its easy to grasp even if you haven't read one issue. Since this takes place in the comic book world and not the movie, they can have cameo appearances by other comic book characters like Wolverine, Hulk, Silver Sable, Johnny Storm, and a lot more.

Speaking of Johnny Storm, I hate racing with him. The racing wouldn't be so bad if it were actual racing and not a game of tagging floating orbs which reside in places that are super easy for Johnny to get to, but insanely hard for Spiderman to get to. You basically have to swing like a natural pro and at the top of your game to even keep up, which is hard, but would have been easier if they would have kept the swinging system from Spiderman 2, not to mention the speed upgrades. At best, web swinging is awkward and difficult to use in gaining altitude when there's nothing to swing from or when the system thinks there's nothing to swing from.

Battles are sometimes irritating with Spidey, but just brute force with Venom. Spidey has to find a weak spot or wait for an open moment to take his villains down. Which means he'll be web swinging like crazy to avoid projectiles and jump attacks from the enemy. This would be easier if the area in which you fight could be extended. However, you often get the message "Area Unavailable" when swinging out of the way, and you end up flinging yourself into an invisible wall on the street which allows your opponent plenty of time to pelt you with several shots. Not the most well thought out boss arena. Meanwhile, Venom functions like the Hulk but with Spiderman-ish powers. He has the super high jump that Hulk does and the super beat downs as well as a grab and throw. He also has a sort of web sling that he can do which is basically extending his suit to stick to a surface in order to pull himself to it. Oh yeah, he also needs to feed on people in order to keep himself alive. This is kind of interesting since in every battle pretty much, you have crazy innocent people running around to feed on to replinish energy. Meanwhile in your fights as Spiderman you have no refills even if there is a second round to a fight. :-\

In between story points, you have a set amount of things to do, just like in Spiderman 2. But instead of accumulating a number of hero points, you have a set number of events, races, and fight campaigns to complete. Along the way, you can also hunt for landmark tokens, secret tokens, and comic book tokens that will unlock the specific comic book or landmark they are, as well as characters to view and costumes to wear in the game. Although it does take a LOT of these to unlock costumes, so be ready to take some serious time to look for these.

Bottom line is, the game is a pretty good follow up to Spiderman 2 and has everything it didn't have. The problem is that it Spiderman 2 has everything this game doesn't have. Heh. If they could combine the best of this game with the best of Spiderman 2, they would have a game that would sell countless numbers. If you're looking for a very challenging Spiderman game with unlockables, lots of cameos from other Marvel characters, and an overall different tone, then you should buy Ultimate Spiderman. If you're just looking for a quick Spidey game with better gameplay and movie-type graphics (and Bruce Campbell) then you should just go buy Spiderman 2.

A great game ruined by bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game continuously freezes up in boss battles. This could just be the PS2 version, but it occured with multiple discs. After researching this online I've found it is a very common problem. If a little more effort was put into debugging the game it would be a 4 star game, but as it stands it is practically unplayable.

Not as Great as Spider-Man 2

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was fun to play. I loved the graphics. Oh, and the cameo's by a few other Marvel guys was the best to see. When Wolverine entered into the game I also most didn't want to fight him with Venom. Hey Wolverine is cool, I didn't want to hit him. Anyways now that I sound lame... I thought the game was short when it came to the storyline, and there wasn't much to do... Basically 2 submissions (races and beating up gang members). There was a few races with the Human Torch (some of the reviews mention they where to hard, I couldn't tell you if they where, I cheated in those races). I haven't played Spider-Man 2 in over a year, so I don't remember most of the stuff on that game, but I remember there was more things to do on that game, and it wasn't this short and had more things to collect around NY and the city was bigger then the NYC in Ultimate Spider-Man. Another thing I did love to see in this game was that after each battle you had with a boss, or whatever, all the damage you've created in the city while fighting in those battles gets left behind and you can revisit the busted up buildings and holes in the ground anytime you wanted to. I've also seen a few dumpsters shown up in the area showing that people where working on trying to "clean" up Spider-Man's mess, LOL.

Waste of 50 bucks

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To me this game was a HUGE disappointment, I spent 50 dollars on this game and there is hardly anything to do with it. Unless your into doing the same thing over and over and over again then go ahead and waste your money. but all you do is be spider man, chase a guy, the guy hurts civilians, save the civilians, chase some more, than fight the guy. Thats all you do as spiderman. and as venom you chase, run away, and fight. Nothing more to it. sure there are the city events and races but those are boring. Not to mention the game can be beat within an hour. The only thing remotely fun is swingin around the city, and even that gets old after 15 minutes. I do have to give credit to the graphics though, they're pretty good. But if you wanna spend 50 dollars on a game that takes an hour to play go ahead, otherwise I suggest waiting until the price drops down to 10 bucks.

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