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Fun, fun, fun - best Spidey game to date

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I was bowled over by the physics, loved the action and amazed at the fact that the entire island of Manhattan has been recreated.

Sure I loathed the story and detested the end-of-level bosses you have to endure to gain everything the game has to offer. Thankfully these parts are short and mostly easy. Some of the fights are so out of keeping with the rest of the game, placed obviously in there to coincide with the movie... but once the story part of the game is completed New York is open for you. You're then free to do the sub missions and time trials and seek hidden packages to your heart's content.

Personally I could have lived without the story mode completely but it didn't detract too much from a great game with good graphics and fabulous controls.

Leaping off a skyscraper for the first time is a rush! Recommended harmless fun.

Good & Fun. Not Quite as Good as the Movie

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I loved the movie and one day while walking in Electronics Boutique I saw the game and I decided to buy it. The graphics are good and the game is really fun. It's not amazingly difficult. I did get help from a friend with the next to last level, but I beat Doc Ock by myself. The game is told in chapters and you are given an objective which you have to complete in order to complete the chapter. But it doesn't follow the story line of the movie. It does follow most of it, but in the game you fight Shocker and Mysterio. The level where you beat Mysterio is pretty funny considering you only have to hit him once. The funhouse level is pretty cool and a big highlight is you can travel anywhere. At no time while swinging through the air will you be stopped by a seemingly invisible force field. The games graphics are pretty good. The fighting is kind of cheap, it's like punching in slow motion, but looking past that. I don't understand why the game isn't that well liked because it is pretty good. B+.

Marvel's Spiderman meets GTA Vice City

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

By far the best action game I've ever played. I tried picking up the first Spiderman for PS1 and got frustrated during the first training part of the game because everything was about precision controls and memorizing button combinations. Spiderman 2 was easy to pick up. Trainin only took 30 minutes and the rest was self-explanatory. The controls are really easy and the animations are entertaining enough to keep you busy for hours.
If the developers of this game would make a Superman game with a similar set-up, I'm sure it'd be a hit.

Technically a fantastic game, but lacks gameplay

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is incredibly beautifully made. The graphics, the physics, the freedom... they are truly amazing. The horizon of graphic is pretty far, there are many interesting things to explore.

But... other than being gorgeous, the game simply lacks gameplay.

The missions are all very easy. The enemies are all very easy and the gameplay must have been geared to a younger group of players than me (I'm on my early 20s). The only true enemy of Spiderman in this game is water. All the fights are easy, Rhino, and all of them... just fall very easily (and there aren't even that many of the more special enemies that try to make it challenging). The only truly difficult parts of the game are the ones that involve water, the duel over the statue of liberty and the final battle against Dr Ock both involve the constant risk of falling on water and since that kills you at once it is the only true challenge in the game. I find that annoying and frankly a bit old.

The side quests such as finding sckyscraper special locations and stuff are a good idea (reminds me of Grand Theft Auto), but frankly there is no payoff. You find all of them and all you get is a medal on your status screen saying you did it. Who cares? There are so many things that could have been added such as different costumes for Spidey, changes to Peter's apt, and etc. (Again, similar things have been done before for example in GTA).

The random missions are very repetitive (by the 8-9 time a armored car was being robbed it got to be pretty boring).

The game still is pretty funny though, the voices are made by the actors from the movie so they are great.

I just wish they had spent some of the time they used making the amazing NY in the game creating some more story and gameplay instead.

The 9/11 memorial in the game was a pretty neat and sensitive inclusion though.

Be Spider-Man and See New York

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game was amazing. I saw more of New York from this game then actually going there. This just shows the amazing work done to work on the gaphics and game layout. This game was just wow. What else is there to say, if you don't like superhero games then this will just change your mind. If only other super hero games were like this.

a bit complicated and unfocused

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game blows the n64 spiderman game right out of the water.i feel even more like spiderman in this one.however,youre a bit too much like spiderman.theres people calling for you to do random jobs no matter where you go.you dont just stick to a wall,you must push a button.you are very very fast.you have a shedload of moves and manuvers you can perform.all this is well and good,but still have to go and be peter parker too.so theres meeting mj for dinner dates,visiting your aunt may,being a good friend to harry and taking photos.theres even pizza delivery!i find spidey hard to control and do better just flailing about when fending off multiple thugs.an example of a cool move is you can spot a robbery a block and a half way,run all the way into the fray at amazing speeds and just clean a crooks clock with a devastating uppercut.but as he flies through the air,you can jump up there and boot him all around the air before he ever hits the ground.its so cool.the bosses are pretty rough.if not for the over complicated handling system,itd have gotten a 5 star rating.

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What a fantastic game. Spider-Man 2 is definitely the best Spider-Man game released so far when it comes to the graphics. I find myself sometimes just stop and look around just to view the incredible environments. This game is very detailed and very fun to swing around in. There are a couple of times in the game that become annoying. Of course, the kid who loses his balloon is always annoying. But the hardest part of the game is when you have to do the Statue of Liberty mission. It is always annoying. Overall, this game is definitely recommended

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