Spider-Man 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.
Game Play
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.[2]
While street thugs only have handguns, machine guns, crowbars and their
fists to protect them, the super-villains and their minions have their
various unique powers and weapons that they use to either steal, cause
terror or defeat Spider-Man. At the end of the game, it becomes possible
to unlock a warehouse in which the player can again fight thugs and
villains such as Shocker, Rhino, Doctor Octopus, and an additional boss,
Calypso, who is not found elsewhere in the game.
The player has the ability to choose either to go on with the storyline
or swing around the city. The player can explore Manhattan, Roosevelt
Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and a mysterious label on the map
over the water claiming "Governors Island" with many sidequests for the
player to complete. The player can do random tasks to earn "hero
points," which must be accumulated to continue with the plot and are
spent on upgrading Spidey's skills.
PC game
The plot of the PC game differs drastically from the main console
versions. It first starts out with a short cutscene from the primary
console game that introduces as to how Dr. Otto Octavius became Doc Ock
with his fusion reaction experiment. The PC version then diverges from
the console versions with a tutorial, (narrated by Bruce Campbell)
telling the player how to play as Spider-Man, (i.e. web swinging, wall
crawling, fighting, etc.).
The storyline for the game starts off with a cutscene of a gray van
being chased down by the police before it crashes, and out comes two
crooks. Spider-Man dispatches the crooks quickly, but the van drives
away on automatic. Spider-Man follows it to the New York Maximum
Security Prison where a large group of thugs are causing a riot.
Spider-Man defeats many crooks and escaping prisoners before the Rhino
busts out of the prison. He briefly fights Spider-Man before he tries to
charge away, but is caught in a laser cage set up by the police.
Deciding to let the undefeated prisoners escape (whom he can later find
in alleys and hidden areas), Spider-Man goes after the Rhino and defeats
him by making him charge into the laser field (and subsequently pummel
him while he is down, which is an option and could make Rhino's defeat
quicker). And just before he is defeated, Rhino charges at Spider-Man
one last time, escapes the laser field but accidentally rams into a gas
station that blows up and knocks him several blocks away from the
explosion, where Doc Ock takes his unconscious form. Spider-Man lets Ock
get away with Rhino while he douses the fires caused by the explosion
and then demonstrates a new power punch by defeating three crooks (these
power punches are gained when defeating normal enemies, not bosses, and
once they are gained, they drain out during combat, which quickly
defeats enemies with a single punch).
Later, Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter ego, is with his Aunt May at the
bank, and goes to the bathroom just as Doc Ock and a gang of his
robbers hold the bank hostage. Spider-Man pummels his way through the
robbers and saving the hostages, including Aunt May, until he reaches
the basement of the bank where he confronts Ock. They fight, but Ock
gets away with his stolen cash. Spider-Man once again lets him get away
in order to save Aunt May from a band of three robbers who kidnap her
and take her into their van. Spider-Man stops the van, dispatches the
robbers and saves Aunt May.
The next day, Peter is walking with Mary Jane Watson through the city
when they both spot MJ's car getting stolen. Peter tells MJ to wait
where she is while he calls the police. Then Spider-Man follows the car
to a garage where he confronts the villain Puma and a band of his crooks
in a warehouse. Puma leads Spider-Man on a chase throughout the
warehouse while Spider-Man pummels his way through Puma's cronies, and
their initial fight takes place in a small room. After Puma takes some
beating, he takes the fight outside to the rooftops, at a water fountain
and finally to an unfinished construction site. There, Puma finally
surrenders in his fight against Spider-Man, but gleefully tells him that
he was merely a distraction for Spider-Man while Doc Ock kidnapped Mary
Jane. In a cutscene, Puma tries to get away but Spider-Man webs him up
and finally defeats Puma. He calls Mary Jane, but Ock has kidnapped her.
Later, Ock and his cronies attack OsCorp. Spider-Man goes to OsCorp to
foil the heist there, defeating many cronies and saving countless
civilians and scientists, as well as disabling the eight bombs Ock
placed in the building. Spider-Man is then confronted by Rhino in a room
with six generators which Spider-Man makes the brutish villain ram into
and electrocute himself, but Rhino is not done yet. He confronts
Spider-Man for a third time in a room with four liquid nitrogen tubes
that Spider-Man destroys and leaks the gases in the tubes, quickly
freezing the room. But fortunately, Spider-Man escapes the room before
it freezes and Rhino is frozen with it, finally defeating him. Then
Spider-Man leaves OsCorp through an elevator to continue his search for
Doc Ock on OsCorp's rooftop before he finds himself in a New York
literally torn out of the ground and into the sky by the machinations of
the supervillain Mysterio, who has done this to further Ock's plans.
Spider-Man destroys the generators that seemingly hold New York in the
sky, as well as fighting through Mysterio's numerous robots, before
fighting and chasing a flying Mysterio himself, which Spider-Man fights
back by throwing meteors at the villain that the latter throws down from
the sky to defeat the superhero. But Mysterio is not done yet; he tries
to kill Spider-Man again with a giant laser gun on top of the Daily
Bugle, but Spider-Man destroys it and defeats Mysterio. Mysterio tells
Spider-Man of Ock's plans and disappears, reverting New York back to
normal.
Spider-Man takes the final fight to Doc Ock through the subways,
fighting past the remainder of Ock's cronies, saving Mary Jane and
battling Doc Ock in a final showdown at his fusion reactor. Spider-Man
pummels enough sense into him to make Ock realize the error of his ways
and he sacrifices himself by pulling his machine in with him into the
river (much like the movie), and Spider-Man escapes with Mary Jane
without revealing his identity to either.
System Requirements
CPU: Pentium or Athlon 600MHz Processor
RAM: 128MB RAM
VGA: 16MB DirectX compatible 3D Accelerated Video Card
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
HDD: 827MB Hard Disk Space
ODD: 4X CD-ROM Drive
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