Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7626 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: ACTIVISION
• Released on: 2005-01-24
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platform: GameCube

From Amazon.com
Spider-Man: The Movie brings your friendly neighborhood web slinger to life with engrossing realism, proving that a superhero game of such complex nature can be achieved with nearly flawless and nonintrusive gameplay. Be it wandering the city's environs in search of villains, or just checking out your surroundings by web-swinging high above them, you truly can do whatever Spider-Man can. It's all here: high-flying aerial battles, the ability to web up and yank your enemies close for pummeling, and the capacity for crawling or web-zipping up, down, and over any surface--and that's just for starters. All in all, this is one involved game that does not fail to live up to the hype.

The game parallels the motion picture's story line, steering you through a progression of challenges that begins with the hunt for Uncle Ben's murderer, and ends with a final showdown with the Green Goblin. You begin as Peter Parker dressed in his wrestling costume and must defeat a variety of thugs throughout each level before advancing to the next set of challenges. The game gets progressively tougher as you encounter, in turn, Shocker, the Vulture, Scorpion, and, of course, the Green Goblin.

Visually, Spider-Man is a treat: cityscapes unfold in realistic detail and are enhanced by sunlight shining between buildings; cutscenes offer seamless animation; interiors are painstakingly re-created; and Spider-Man and his enemies are well rendered, moving about the screen in clean fashion. As an added bonus, most characters are voiced by their movie counterparts, and the training mode features the sarcastic wit of Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell. --Larry White

Pros:

• Detailed controls bring Spider-Man to life
• Challenging gameplay enhanced by numerous fight styles
• Stunning visuals at every level

• Camera angles slow to respond at times
• Some interiors too dark
• Repetitive one-liners

Note: This review refers to the PlayStation2 version of this game.

Amazon.ca Product Description
Spider-Man: The Movie allows fans to play as Spider-Man in several highly detailed 3-D environments inspired by the Columbia Pictures/Marvel Entertainment live-action feature film (due for release in May of 2002). This full-roaming action-adventure game allows players to jump into the suit of a fledgling Marvel superhero and learn how to battle the forces of evil. Players crawl, leap, and swing from the dizzying heights of skyscrapers to catch criminals and supervillains, and, ultimately, come face-to-face with the Green Goblin in a death-defying display of aerial combat. During the course of the game, players must use Spider-Man's spider-sense, agility, quick wits, and strength to evade the pursuit of the bad guys and overcome obstacles.

Customer Reviews

Spidey's cool!!!
Awesome Graphics+tubular storyline=SUPERIFIC FUN GAMING EXPERIENCE!!!!!
I'm serious folks this game is like the best on the planet!
I mean after the movie aired I had to get the game asap.
The game is awesome for 2 great reasons,
1-SPIDERMAN IS DA MAN!
2-It's just like the movie!
Even if your not a spidey fan you got to get this game!For an ultimate gaming experience buy this game!
You really(...) don't wanna miss out!!I give this game 10 stars!!!!

Awesome, Awesome. GET THE NEW ONE!
Ok, this game isn't the best... the slow loading and level stuff is bull crap, and some of the villains (vulture, shocker) could be better, but everything else is absolutely awesome. It's true to Spiderman, you can do everything he can, even though his "spidey sense" is a bit strange (little yellow !s shoot out of his head), but this game is great, the cheats are awesome (you can even mix and match the player altering cheats, to have a Mini-Matrix character) the gameplay is great, but the story line is slightly choppy with the level loading. The Graphics are good, and there is some very funny dialogue, and the training sessions? not dull at all. Very humorous voice, says stuff like "Back when I was a kid, My family would go to my grandparents farm, and my grandpa would always say "Billy... You gotta jump through the rings. when you jump through the rings, they'll turn the color of your grammas peach cobbler" of course, none of us had any clue what he was talking about"

YOU CAN EVEN PLAY "SPIDERMAN BOWLING!!!" There are many hilarious hidden features, such as bad looking movie pictures in the background of one scene, and in the bowling ally there is a gallery of "bowling hall of famers" that is actually the production crew, and there's a picture of a dogs head on one of them. EVERYTHING BAD IS GETTING FIXED IN THE SEQUEL!!! I can't wait till it comes out, it sounds great!

This is the prime example of a superhero game done right.
You read that correctly. There is no superhero game in existence that is better than this. I base that on faithfulness to the character, ability to actually use all of your superhero powers at will, and sheer amount of diverse combos. In fact, there are so many combos, that you'll probably never use them all.

You literally feel like Spider-Man during gameplay. He jumps, he flips (dramatically), he sticks, he swings, he shoots webs, he cracks jokes, he crawls... (...even around edjes. Those who've played older Spider-Man games know why I mentioned that.) How can a fan not like this game?

Mark my words, the ONLY complaint there is to have about this game is the fact that you can't land on the street, when you're swinging around the city.

Oh, and one other thing, you can play this game twice, and it will be a slightly different game. By that I mean, you can actually play as the Green Goblin, enjoying ALL of his abilities as you fight through the game (unlike the Shocker or rumored Vulture cheat). You're even recognized as the Goblin throughout the game. Ingenious!