Spider-Man

This game is great. Not only do Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe lend their voices, but the animation is amazing, the scenery of New York City is so cool, and there is lots of cool extras on the game too. It's also kid-friendly.

I recommend this game to everyone!

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.

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 have to say I enjoyed the game very much, and would have given it an 8 were it not for two very annoying flaws. The first is that the positions taken by the "camera" were often appalling. Sure you can manually move the view point around, but in the heat of the moment when surrounded by baddies, you simply don't have the time. I found some parts of the game extremely frustrating because of this. The second is that the loading times are excessive, and in my view occasionally unnecessary. Ok, you expect to have to wait for a new level to load, but when you die you have to wait for the current level to re-load.

I think both these flaws are a result of sloppy programming, or maybe the game just needed to spend more time in development instead of rushing a release to coincide with the film. It's a shame, because I very much enjoyed the variety in the gameplay, and the degree of control that, with practise, you can exercise over Spidey. Overall, then, I give it a 6.

The game is not that much different from the original playstation version. The graphics and the sound are better but the gameplay is virtually the same. I was disappointed in the odd camera angles that would sometimes make gameplay frustrating. Also, the game was too short. I realize that this isn't a "final fantasy" or "resident evil" type of game, but please, give me something that's worth my fifty bucks.