Spider-Man

There's no open world city to explore, which is hard to get over for those who're more used to the follow up. It's got decent gameplay, good combat, graphics have aged surprisingly well, and overall is pretty decent. It's just hard to go back and play this when you've been spoiled by some of the later Spider-Man games, especially the PS4 iteration.

I played the first level of this game on X-Box, in Target. What did I get, possibly the best game experience from a movie/game tie-in. Not Only do Willem Dafoe and Tobey Magurie reprise their roles as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Peter Parker/Spiderman, It is possibly the best game I have ever played on a X-Box, buy it now!!

Movie based games normally have a long history of being just avenged or awful.

Spider-Man 2002 has the thin line of being that. The game is based off the 2002 Spider-Man motion picture.

However the game just seems broken mostly. While the game does follow the story line of the film it is however like an different take of the film.

The story follows Peter Parker Voiced by Tobey Maguire who reprise his role from the film which is a interesting take plus Willem Dafoe also reprise his role as Norman Osborn/Green Goblin. Bruce Campbell provide the voice of the Tour Guide and his performance alone is what sold the game.

The game while following the story line of the movie also features villains like Shocker, Scorpion and Vulture to make the game feel original in terms of villains.

But the game doesn't have the feel of fun which is what the most important of any video game is for it be fun and playable.

The Graphics in the game do look great and you can get to see the whole city of New York as you swing into action. The Voice acting is very good and the music is very strong in the game.

The controls however are a mix bag I wish the game was like Spider- Man 2000 which is a very good video game.

So the results is the game is great to look at and listen to but not much for playing, only play it if you are a huge fan of Spider-Man but the game is just broken to me.

I give Spider-Man 2002 an 6 out of 10

It's an rollercoaster ride for my nervous system. Because this game is extremely hard to play. Controls are horrible on Xbox, you basically need to push the buttons with all of your force to turn the camera left and right. But my worst enemy was that you can't tilt the camera up or down. Only left and right works. As soon as I realized this, I knew I was in for some serious brain damage...

Honestly I probably haven't recovered fully but It was for sure an experience. The graphics of the game hold up to this day, but the reason for that is that this retro style nowadays seems stylistic. It doesn't feels like the developers attempted to make the best possible photo realistic game there could be, because for sure there were more realistic games to that time. The short animated sequence cut-scenes were amazingly good and fun to watch, great animation, always felt rewarding to watch them after completing the mission. I could watch a whole season of animated clips like that.

But what I love most about this game Is how much It adds to the Film even If it's not being canon. This game comes from a time where the next two movies weren't even in development, I feel like some of this was actually meant to interfere within the second film. Scorpion especially. Greatest villain in the whole game for me.

The mechanics of the whole control-system and the whole construction of the bot-system make it almost impossible to get through the missions in the first playthrough. And surprisingly, that Is a good thing. I was searching for an challenge game, and by today's whole Fair-for-Everyone-Gaming-Industry, I found this gem. Spider-Man reminded me of times where you hung on missions for days before you finally were able to complete them. Games were made to be challenging, nowadays they more likely tend to tell a story, which I also prefer, but the challenge is almost non-existing. A boss-fight like the Kraven or the Scorpion fight in a new Spider-Man game nowadays, Is impossible. And I played on the easiest difficulty...

Another reason why I love this game, the whole story Is hilarious and a whole bunch of non-sense. It is so laughable that It is fun again. That final scene where Osborn dies and Peter just decides to make out with MJ a few seconds after It happened... Absolute Cinema.

A lot of movie tie-in games ain't too successful but this is OK cause you're Spider-man.

The plot's pretty much the same as the movie except there's other baddies to fave other than the Green Goblin.

As cool as it is to swing around New York city like Spider-man, the floor combat ain't that good. All you have to do is punch and kick. You can get combos but they're pretty pointless. Another problem is the camera, it keeps moving and going the wrong places!

Some cool features is that Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe reprise their roles. Unlike the movie, Spider-man says more jokes, making you think Tobey is Spider-man. Bruce Campbell does some very funny voice-over work, watch out for one of the training sessions where he talks about his grandfather, it's very funny.

There are some cool secrets to get so that's pretty worth it.

In the end, it's an OK game but doesn't offer anything challenging.