One of the best Spiderman games ever!!!
I'll just flat out say it: Spider-Man for the playstation is a great game. Activision and Neversoft have created the very first PSX Spider-Man game and it's a great one at that. I actually consider it one of those ''must own'' playstation games to have in you collection, but I'm aware that not everyone is a fan of the wallcrawler. But even so, if you like superhero's even just a little, let alone in a videogame, Spider-Man is top of the line...web line that is.
Gameplay: 9/10
Spider-Man's gampelay mechanics never really got old for me. I loved playing as the webhead! It has some puzzle solving elements in it, regular beat-em up, and even a timed ''catch the badguy''. It's honestly a really fun game to play and it's one of the few playstation games that I've actually like playing through more than once. The bosses you fight in this game are fun to fight, and a lot of them are puzzle-esque as well, not just your typical run of the mill ''beat the bejesus out of him'' boss fight.
There is one rather tedious element to Spider-Man, and that's the repetition of enemies. They are all basically the same, just with different style. For example, for the first few levels you battle thugs. The next few levels you battle Lizard men, and then after that a bunch of symbiote monster creatures. The enemies never mix, instead it's just the same group of enemies for a specific group of levels. You may not think it's such a big deal, but after a while it tends to get rather tedious. A minor complaint though.
Graphics: 9/10
For the playstation, Spider-Man's graphics are great. However, due to the console's limitations, the detail can't get as in depth as the game does on the PC. Still, you can't blame the game for that. Also, there is always the graphical mess up that occasionally occurs. Over all though, awesome graphics.
Controls :8/10
The controls in Spider-Man are pulled off pretty good. I believe it was Neversoft and their Tony Hawk game controls that help out Spider-Man's controls in every way. They are very smooth, although you'll find yourself doing the wrong thing from time to time. Sometimes they aren't as responsive as they should be, but this is actually something pretty minor. The camera control could be slightly better, but it's hardly anything to really take note for.
Story
I'm not going to rate the story. It's a comic book story at heart, full of that superhero cheesiness that we all know and love. However, I will say this, and this can be a good or bad thing depending on how you feel. Spider-man has a lot of unnecessary cameos appearing throughout cutscenes for virtually no reason at all. It's as though Marvel wanted to get nearly every major character to make a cameo just for the sake of showing off their characters on the playstation in 3D. No cameos by the Hulk or Iron Man though, but I believe Spider-Man does make some sort of witty comment about them in the game somewhere.
Which brings me to something else: the character of Spider-Man is brought to life on the playstation beautifully. Granted, it's not like the movie, but since this game was out before the movie by quite a long time, it's damn good.
Sound/Audio
Honestly, I'm not one to give out a score to the sound and audio. It's good. It has some nice music, and whatever. Need I say more?
Overall
I will just get to the point, This is a must have!Read full review
