

The game also adds various side quests, and real-life city emergencies that your friendly neighborhood superhero would assist in. While swinging around New York infinitely might sound fun, combat, crawling and spider-senses all Octavius, Harry Osborne, Mary Jane and Parker.Īs you navigate the chapters you need to use all your Spider-Man abilities to progress, defeat enemies, and solve puzzles. Much like the movie, the story focuses on Dr. The game is divided into chapters, that take you across the movie’s plot and some unexpected interactions and welcome additions. Nonetheless, there is a lot of creative liberty, and new characters present themselves here. Plot-wise the game loosely follows Tobey McGuires’s second movie entry as Spider-Man, especially on the impact of balancing life as Peter Parker and Spider-Man. Setting up the foundation for various super hero games in recent memory was an accomplishment, and as such the game can still be played nowadays and be fun. And at the time it was considered one of the best superhero games of all time. Spider-Man 2 was commended for revolutionizing the open-world genre. On top of that the vertical crawling, and web-zipping were well-developed mechanics that helped push the game into classic status. Spider-Man actually shoots webs at buildings, and not at the sky this time around. Spider-Man 2 is a vast improvement on the first game, and the swinging mechanics saw the most improvement of it all. In this action-adventure game players are free to explore a huge map of New York City, which was praised extensively for its realism.

Spider-Man is one of the most successful - if not the most - super hero franchise of all time, and at the time stepping into Peter Parker’s shoes was a dream come true.

Upon release Spider-Man 2 was met with positive reviews across platforms, from critics and players alike. Released in 2004, Spider-Man 2 follows the events of the movie directed by Sam Raimi. The title was made available for PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Xbox, MacOS and PC. Spider-Man 2 was developed by Treyarch, and published by Activision.
