Spider Man 2 is the
name of several computer and video games based on the Spider Man universe and
particularly the Spider Man 2 film. It is a follow up to the game Spider Man:
The Movie and was followed by Spider Man 3 to promote the release of the third
film in 2007. These games were published by Activision for different systems in
2004.
These games are
adaptations of the film Spider Man 2. The GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox
versions of the game, developed by Activision's Treyarch studio, allow the
player to freely roam around Manhattan, Roosevelt, Ellis, and Liberty Islands.
The home console versions were also innovative in that physics based algorithms
simulated Spider Man's web swinging in three dimensions, creating a new game
mechanic unlike the traditional jumping or flying of previous Spider Man games.
Versions of the
game on other platforms feature more linear side scrolling and platform
sections. The PSP version of Spider Man 2 was compared to playing the Spider Man
1 plot.
Spider Man 2 is
attempting to do the same thing that the console game does. It takes only the
most basic shreds of story from the movie of the same name and inserts them
into an action game. In an attempt to liven things up a bit, the game does more
than merely pit Spider Man against Dr. Octopus. You'll also face other
villains, like Mysterio, the Puma, and on multiple occasions you'll square off
against Rhino. When you aren't doing that, you're stopping bank robberies and
beating up on other, lesser thugs. Generally speaking, the game doesn't go out
of its way to tell any story at all. You'll get a cutscene here and there, but
most of these cutscenes are ugly. A few of them come from the console versions
of the game, and these look just fine. But the cutscenes that were created
specifically for this version of the game are awful. They run at a choppy frame
rate, and the scenes would probably look better if they were just rendered
in-engine.
The boss fights in
the game are, for the most part, dumb. It certainly doesn't help that the game
pauses before each fight and spells out exactly what you need to do to win
before every single fight. This feature and the one button gameplay may have
you thinking that the game was intended for kids, but the game is really ill designed
all over the place, and it doesn't feel like it's catering to any specific
crowd. It's also a fairly short game, clocking in around the five or six hour
mark.
Most of the sound
effects in the game are good, but this is offset by some bad voice acting.
You'll hear some of the voices from the movie here, but Tobey Maguire must have
used up all his voice acting energy on lines for the console version of the
game. Here, the script is bad to begin with, and the line delivery isn't any
better. The game has some music, but it basically just fades into the
background and stays there.
Processor= 733MHz
RAM= 128MB
Graphics= 16MB
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