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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.

spidey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 36
Date: October 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bout this game and i beat it as venom and spidey and its gay i mean if you've played spiderman 2 and this game....i mean realy.
compare:
spiderman 2 utimate spiderman

fredom during career no
good graphics no
good game play no
alot of fighting move and combos no

overall this game is a good rental but don't buy.

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.

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.

Gets boring real fast, super short

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I finished the game fairly quickly without trying too hard. Just like an earlier reviewer mentioned, what you have to do is pretty much the same on every mission. Some of the "chase the bad guy" missions are super frustrating. Its an OK game, definitely rental material.

Don't like it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: October 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a game for kids under the age of 13. It has cool comic book style cut scenes but the actual gameplay is short, simplistic, and either way too hard or way too easy. And no you don't get to freeroam with Venom. You can only use him as part of storymode. I've been a huge spidey fan for well over 10 years but this game was a total letdown. If you're still in middle school you might like it. Anyone else should stick with Spiderman 2 or get the new X-Men Legends instead.

Not very creative at all (Big Spiderman Fan)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I design video games for a living and I was very dissapointed with this game. I was looking foward to this game very much and was quite dissapointed to find that every level was the same just a different villian (i.e. you chase the villian throughout the city and then catch him and try to kill him)

the biggest suck ass part of this game was the false advertising YOU CANNOT BE VENOM AND DO WHATEVER YOU WANT IN THE GAME LIKE IT HAS BEEN ADVERTISED, YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MISSION ONLY, I REPEAT YOU CAN ONLY FREE ROME AS SPIDERMAN, NOT VENOM.

I am a huge spiderman fan and was very disappointed by the false advertising.

Spectacular, but not Amazing

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've only been playing this game for a few days, but it was enough to inspire me to write a short review (my first). If you are looking for your first Spider-Man game, buy Spider-Man 2. If you finished that one, and you want another game, then buy this one.

This games looks wonderful, but there are two aspects that annoy me to no end.

1. The web swinging is horrible. I'll never understand why they didn't just use the same model from Spider-Man 2. It was perfect. You could swing simply by pressing and releasing a button, or you could develop skill at swinging so that you can move through the city with pinpoint accuracy. I still find myself loading up Spider-Man 2 just to swing through the city for a while. In this game, press R... release R... press R... release R... It is very simplistic and doesn't allow you to move with style like the previous game. I'll mention the two good things just to be fair. Your web still has to attach to a building (or something), not an invisible cloud way up in the sky. Second, the web zip is improved, but I think they improved it only because climbing a tall building without charge jump would have been torture otherwise.

2. This may change as I get further in the game, but so far... you always start in Queens. I get annoyed that I have to make my way to the bridge and swing across (or under) it just to get to Manhattan where the real fun is.

I give the game a 3 overall because in the swinging area it feels as if they took a giant step backwards. However, it is a Spider-Man game that looks great and is still fun, so I give a 4 for fun.

Ultimate spider-man ??...I think Not !!. get the movie games !!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: October 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i just purchashed this game yesterday..i bought the "limited edition venom" version..after getting it home and playing it for about a hour i was saying to myself What the??..i have to say this game is very lackluster...all hype no substance.. true the graphics look good for a virtual comic book, and the swinging around new york is fun..but it was done far much better in the 2 movie games !( i pulled out my spidey 2 game and was playing that later in the evening instead of this ! but are you really willing to spend 50 bucks just for good graphics? ... ok heres the lowdown, you have to run around and save people(which is fun) but it gets old quickly and then there are those stupid "Races" since when did spidey become a racer?? the first race is with the human torch in queens..and i found that it took away from the gameplay..and whats even more annoying..is the voice acting i know its the young peter parker but c mon his voice is so whiney my friend had to mute the tv sometimes..and the voice for the torch?..that whole dude surfer thing is very much played out..

But the number one gripe i have about this game is .. drum roll please!........YOU CANT PLAY AS VENOM !!!! ( you HAVE to play thru the whole game+side missions as spidey and THEN FINALLY, you can unlock venom.. which i thought was misleading..they even have it in Small print in the first few pages of the manual..how Sneaky is that?)

all that aside its fun to play as venom ! and spidey as well.. But if you really want a good spider man game? check out activisions spider-man the movie game... or the spider-man 2 games. you wont regret it they look a hundred times better, have much better music, and the gameplay is top notch!

over all here ate the pros and cons...

Pros..the stan lee interview is great(its always nice to hear stan lee talk about spidey and marvel)

great comick book feel/ good graphics

the G4 making of the game special..

the included comic book ..but if your like me u have the"real" issues already so you know the venom story:) although i like how they reinvented the "ultimate" venom saga in wich the black costume/bio suit actually being a attempt to cure cancer..the original venom "origin" is MUCH better with the alien symbiote costume(from the secret wars series) and eddie brock as a disgrunted photog for the bugle...who is out to get peter parker..

swinging around new york (although its not as open as the movie games)

Cons..

YOU CANT PLAY AS VENOM (unless you complete the whole game first then he is "unlockable" ...which is very misleading to the consumer..its even in small print inside the manual..thats a rip off to the fans that want to play as venom right away...the way this game was advertises..depending on who you chose to play it will be a great time~) this game is just filler material until the spider man 3 movie game comes along :) which we all know venom will be in the third movie which will rock !!.. but topher grace as eddie brock/venom?? i dont know about that one .. thats another review for later :)

voice acting is..poor..peter sounds like a whiney brat sometimes and dont get me started on the dopey sounding human torch.. but venom in my opinion is the star of the show here ...

bottom line its a fun game. dont get me wrong,..but a real let down it could have been MUCH better.. and thats why its also out in a special verson to dress it up and sell more copies but if u have to have this game the" special version "is the way to go....let the buyer beware though there are BETTER spider man games out there.. im a huge spider- man fan and i feel that this game could have been a better homage to a legendary character than this all fuff and no substance marketing gimmick.. ill be returning mine today.. hmm then again i can always put it up on ebay...somebody will buy it...

Pity Spider-Man 2 came first

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game! The scale is grand, the graphics are fantastic and the story is great (with a fun script). Unfortunately it has a lot to live up to and falls short on a number of things:

Though the story over-all is better, it's also a lot shorter and should be completed in a coupole of days (if not less).

The graphic style is very different to Spider-Man 2, being the style used for the Ultimate Spider-Man comics (obviously). The character designs are unique and superb - particularly in the cut-sequences. The cityscape - this time incorporating Queens (though no Roosevelt, Ellis or Liberty island) - is also far more detailed than Spider-Man 2, especially at ground level. However it is also more cartoon-like and you don't get the same feel of flying through the city streets as before. The streets are narrower and the buildings shorter, and the swing-speed is also a lot slower making roaming less fun.

The control method is simpler and easier to get to grips with than previously, but the controls are less responsive making the chase/race missions in particular very frustrating at times. And the lack of a charge-jump and aerial acrobatics don't help. Nor does the camera, which has an even worse habit of throwing itself in random directions than the last one did.

The side missions are pretty much the same as before (i.e. break-ins, purse-snatchings, armoured car hold-ups, gang warfare, people falling from buildings or in need of a hospital, etc.) with some missions having two separate aspects (e.g. stopping an assault and then having to get the victim to hospital), but all the missions appear at random - as opposed to some coming from a witness' calls for help - and without any time-limits.

On the whole, this is prettier to look at and has a better story and script than Spider-Man 2, but simply isn't as much fun to play.

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