Friday From the Archives: Spider-Man (PS2, 2002)

Every Friday we celebrate the heritage of Code Redd Net by posting a retro-review from our considerable back catalogue of embarrassingly naive, but nonetheless entertaining and heartfelt, movie and game reviews. Please pardon the prose; most of these articles were written in our immediately post-pubescent years. Hopefully you'll find them as enjoyable as we do.

I haven't played this game for years, but many of the comments below still ring true for me. I do think this game is a substantial upgrade from the original PS1 titles, although I do enjoy the more comic book flavor of the older games as opposed to this movie-based style of this and Spider-Man 2, though that may simply be attributable to fact that I don't like any of the Toby Maguire films. I may have to YouTube this Green Goblin cheat, because I recall nothing like that.

"Spider-Man the movie game improves upon the previous Spidey games in so many ways. The first titles were fantastic, but this game captures the sense of being Spider-Man so much better. Much more of the action takes place above the stunning recreation of NYC. Aerial battles are terrific, and the camera has improved greatly. Now, you can lock onto villains, making it much less of a headache this time around. One of the biggest improvements has to be the replay value. Golden Spiders are hidden throughout the level to find, and some exclusively on certain difficulty levels. Plus, the cheats are great, but perhaps the Green Goblin cheat tops them all. A stunning game."