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Can't Wait!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: May 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

To tell you the truth, I've never been more exctited about a game since KOTOR hit the X-Box and got it the first day. Besides the advanced spider-sense and web-swinging, this game allows you to finally walk on the street, fight with allies like "The Cat", and when people insult, you can talk to them! Also you can choose the moves you want to get, go in an out of your apartment, and, if you want, you can check this out at(...)! It's really cool!

One word...AMAZING!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have to say this is one of the greatest games i've ever played. The producers showed a lot of class placing the lights where the twin towers used to be. As a native New Yorker i love this game even more. The controls are easy to learn. Although it can be a bit repetitive at times, you can help but have fun as the web slinger. The best super hero game, the best spiderman game. You simply can't go wrong with this one! BUY IT NOW, you won't regret it.

its about time

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

(...), and spiderman 2 rocks. Ive only played a demo but wow! I just cant wait dude this seriosly is so cool. But the fact is you can do anything, go anywere, and do everything. Run on walls, you earn hero points for the good things you do. You battle evil villions like Doc.Ock, Black cat, rhino, Mysterio, and Shocker. If you see it in the movie chances are you can go there in the game. See sights such as the staghtu of liberty, the daily bugle, and a lot of other places.

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than the first one. you can actually swing on the buildings like in the movie instead of swinging from the sky, and go on the streets. worth the buy.

Good, not awesome

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is a nearly awesome game, running around solving crimes is great and upgrading your abilities is fun. However, the boss battles with Mysterio can only be called tedious. In one, you have to crawl around on moving walls trying not to be seen by Mysterios alter ego Quentin Beck because he will shoot you with a nonlethal laser. I have to say it was pretty boring. Other than that its a great game.

Fantastic freedom of movement, a frenzied fighting system and decent length.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THE SHORT: Go anywhere anytime in a full version of Manhattan. Crawl buildings or swing all day, stop random crimes or take on the story. Similar not to GTA but True Crime, but too unique for direct comparison. Not as horribly difficult or badly acted as I've read, but it could use more variety in some areas.

THE LONG: When I was first debating buying this game, I kept seeing comparisons to Grand Theft Auto. I will immediately tell you this is misleading. You don't steal cars, you can't beat up civilians, and there's no big series of missions to take from different people. It has a couple similar elements to GTA, but in fact the game plays more like True Crime. Like in that game, you can co anywhere at any time, your missions revolve around random street crimes, and aside from a main storyline the bulk of the game's fun is coming from exploring and building up your records. This isn't to say Spider Man 2 isn't fun on its own, because it is. And it's different enough from most other games to really stand out.

The game starts you off as Spidey and guides you through a brief but helpful and humorous tutorial delivered by none other than the man, Bruce Campbell himself. After that, it's up to you. Swing from the rooftops, stop random crime, help citizens in distress, or take on the main storyline. It's all fun, thanks to the great graphics and controls. The game's gravity and speed system gives you a very proper sense of weight and control over Spiderman, and it's a definite blast to just zip around through the rather large city.

Fight controls are, in my opinion, good as well. Like a true comic book hero, Spidey does all kinds of goofy leaps and flips mixed in with the fisticuffs. You can literally run and knock an opponent fifteen feet into the air, jump up and kick him down, then throw a web to catch him before you land and throw him against the side of the building. It's wild, and although you can simply beat guys up with one button, the joy is in all the different flourishes and moves you can execute. And after seeing the films again last week, I was surprised by just how many specific moves they took from the movie for inclusion into the game. Still, there's also a sick humor in just grabbing a mugger, webbing up to the top of the Empire State Building, and hurling him off. Yes, the game lets you do this. And yeah, it's fun.

The random and distress crimes are fun enough as well, but their downside is that, like True Crime, they boil down to the same core missions when it's all stripped down. It doesn't matter if the enemies are robbing a bank or stealing a purse, it'll still come down to you chasing down the baddies and beatin' em down. There's some variation that involves Spidey's particular skills like rescuing hanging construction workers and people from sinking boats, but after a while the crime stuff does get repetitive. In all honesty I didn't have a problem with it until a good week after playing (and finishing) the game, but some will tire more quickly of the lack of variety in the actual objectives.

Which leaves the storyline, which can pretty much be followed at your own pace (although most of Spidey's coolest moves will be unlocked this way). The actual story mode follows the general course of the movie but throws in much substance and characters for filler, and can probably be beaten in about a dozen hours for a casual player. Some, like EGM magazine, have made the boss battles seem ridiculously impossible, but I hardly had a problem with any of it. The toughest spot for me was a sort of obstacle course I was forced to participate in pretty early on, but this type of story mission occurred only once, and the rest to me was just fine. The voice acting was perfectly adequate as well, with no one sounding particularly worse or better than they sounded in the films (again, EGM's review notwithstanding). The same can't be said for the citizens though, who sound quite dumb, but in a fun, somehwat conscious way.

But if all the rest of this stuff doesn't grab you, there's still loads of optional goals to complete. There are literally hundreds of icons to collect in the city, as well as races to try to win and small secrets to uncover (minor spoiler: don't expect too much other than pride if you expect to collect all the green info tokens. This is one of the more wiseguy jokes I've seen in a game, and you'll either laugh or cry after all that work. So heads up).

In my honest opinion, Spider Man 2 is a hell of a game. It's just plain fun to rush around the city while web slinging, crawl to the tops of skyscrapers and swan dive off, and beat up countless thugs with crazy moves. I put in about 50 hours, and a lot of that has been spent just exploring and collecting. It's good enough in the substance that it borrows from True Crime, and it's unique and well made enough on its own to really stand out. I really enjoyed it.

Spiderman 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my 7-year old. He loves to challenge himself to see how many hero points he can earn. The violence is benign and Spiderman always saves the day.

Grand Theft Spidey?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

They say if it ain't broke, then don't fix it. I loved the first Spider-Man game. The graphics were crisp and detailed, the story was deep and involving, and the controls were precise and tight. Then Grand Theft Auto: Vice City came out, which completely re-wrote the video game genre. Games like True Crime and The Getaway were released that practically copied the GTA formula: Free roaming cities, mini-missions, mayhem and violence, etc. Add Spider-Man 2 to the list with mediocre results.

I admit that I was initially excited when I heard that Spider-Man could now swing freely through the city and bust bad guys on the streets below. Though the former is exhilirating and excellently implemented, the latter is dull and repititious. Like GTA, there is a mini-map of the city in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Whenever there is trouble, a green icon will appear in the location where a crime is taking place. Unfortunately, there is a lack of variety in these missions. You will either have to prevent a robber from getting away, take an injured civilian to the hospital, catch a civilian from falling to his or her death, or save people from a sinking boat. After a few of these, you'll begin wishing that the game would just get on with the story. Solving these missions contribute to your "Hero Points" which allow you to purchase moves and combos from a Spidey Store. Since when did Spidey have to buy his own moves and combos? Strange...

Unfortunately, due to the heavy reliance on memory and processing power to produce the massive scope of the game, the graphics are the first to suffer. In most instances, the game resembled a Playstation 1 game. Spidey generally looks good, but the other characters in the game look like spray-painted cardboard boxes. I would have preferred a much scaled-down city in order to boost the quality of the graphics because quite frankly, Spider-Man 2 is an ugly game.

Fans of the first game will most likely be disappointed with the sequel. Though the ability to explore the city by swinging from building to building is a treat, the gameplay and graphics truly suffer. This one is definately a rental.

Kind of crummy........

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: July 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll get to what anoys me most about the game first: The web-swinging, before the game came out I read it looked exactly like it does from the movie, that is a complete lie. As you've seen in the movie Spider-Man does all sorts of crazy movements when he web-swings which no web-swing looks the same, it looks all different. But in the game there is only 2 moves he does, these are sticking one of his legs out, and sticking both legs in-front with a kick. Which gets extremly boring in a matter of minutes, he doesn't put one hand on the web and another on it later, he doesn't tuck one leg under his (...), also your web only goes a small distantance so you can't swing right up-top and swing down and almost touch the ground and swing back up again, also you can only swan-dive off a building by walking off it , not jumping which sucks. So the web-swinging looks nothing like it does in the movie, I cannot stress that enough, it's slow, boring, and looks crummy. If you've seen the banned World-tade-centre trailer, and seen how cool the swinging looks, well the game looks nothing like that.Also theres only eight missions you can do, what happened to burning buildings or whatever? it needs a heck of a lot more missions. Also the buildings, what is up with the buildings!? they're so small you'll often find your self on the ground when you web-swing. All the buldings look like small apartment buildings and the windows frames are all 2D. When I went to New York it was a maze of sky-scrapers aswell as big gaps between the buildings, in the game the buildings are very small and so is New York. There are no trucks or buses, just cars and theres not much of them. I'm also annoyed with the lack of villains in this game which is only Shocker, Mysterio, and Doc Ock. The story-line is very easy and the side missions are very boring after a-while. The only good thing about this game is the fighting.

So what annoys me most about this game? how boring the web-swinging is and how crummy it looks, the swinging does NOT give the feeling of what it's like to be Spider-Man. Also the fact that you can't latch your webbing onto flag-poles or traffic lights and swing around (when the reviews said your webbing goes onto anything is a lie) how tiny the buildings look and how terrible New York looks. When you dive off the Empire-State-Building you fall for about a second which isn't fun at all. The New York in this game looks nothing like the real thing, the web-swing is crummy and all the swings look identical, they need a lot more combinations of swinging and make it look identical to the movie. The need to make sure that all the web-swinging looks different and interesting. The buildings need to be 3D and a hell of a lot taller.

On a final note, rent the game, don't by it. Congratulations try-arch and activision, you've managed to screw up a game yet again, the web-swinging is such a major let down they should be sued for it. The swinging around buildings looks nothing like the movies, he always has both hands on the web, but when he swings around buildings on the movie he has one hand on it then puts another on it. The foot-paths don't have any trees or anything. The web-swinging SUCKS, the buildings are WAY too small and crummy looking. Don't by this game, hopefully the next game will have the identical web-swinging as the movie and New York will actually look like the real thing. Also in the game it never rains, It's always sunny. The game is a major let-down.

Better than fighting the Green Goblin!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When the first Spider-Man game came out, I was so f****** mad!
Everything, except fighting the Green Goblin, was easier than
brushing your teeth. But when I heard about the new web - swinging ablities, I flipped. Now you can swing around like in the movie. You can attach yourself to a steel bar on a bridge twenty feet in the air and swing under the bridge and fly feet
first nto the sky. Combat controls are better as well. One
attack I believe allows you to jump on the bad guys head a

punch them, then flip them over. A web move allows you to shoot
webbing to capture all of them at once and swing them like a laso
(you see it in the ad for the game while a building is burning)
and throw them across. You can now free fall because like I said
in the bridge bit, you can shoot a web line a fly up feet first
and also you can walk on the streets of New York(you can even go
see the Statue of Liberty, don't ask me how to swing over there,
but maybe you swing over there like Spider-Man did in the first movie near the end to get to the bridge to face Green Goblin).
Show New York that Spider-Man is a hero to all!!!

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