Spiderman

As the webbed-one, you get the opportunity to do everything that your friendly neighborhood Spiderman can. Walk on walls/ceilings, web-sling amongst the buildings of New York City, and, most important, deliver a massive beating to all evil-doers while providing the great (ok, really sad) bon-mots that you expect from the great Stan Lee. Your web-shooters are the current up-scaled version, which can make shields, clubs, domes, and impact webbing all the while providing the best use as a prison for some unsuspecting sucker. Besides the usual tools, Spidey can use his fists and feet – not only with the typical punches and kicks but also with some nice aerial variations that can devastate your opponents even more. The 

wall-crawler can also improvise and pick up anything portable (desks, fax machines, 

The extras in the game are different – you can collect Spiderman comics that can be viewed in the extras menu. In addition you can collect different costumes for Spidey – ranging from the Symbiote costume to the Scarlet Spider costume to the Ben Reiley Spiderman costume. Each of these carries special skills, which range from increased strength to unlimited webbing (although some of them have handicaps so you can prove how good you really are).

The game is good, but suffers from excessive cloning. This game looks old and one can easily tell that it wasn't designed for the PC as the textures are nowhere what they should be like with the current level of 3D acceleration. You get some nice backgrounds but you really notice the poor acceleration on the characters that look downright cubic. (Black Cat's bodice looks like something out of Picasso's sketch book) For all that is wrong with the visuals, the sound is the complete opposite. The music is good and the voice acting is amazing; they actually used all of the voice actors from the animated TV series. The effect is not missed as you get an aurally stunning game.

My final peeve is the control. I'm sure that the game would be best played with a console-style controller, but most PC owners (including myself) only own the flight-stick style joysticks (or the current Microsoft SideWinder-esque ones) and which make things nearly impossible to play. Although it is theoretically possible to play the game on the keyboard, I wouldn't recommend it.

All in all, you end up with an average game that is fun to play.

- Tazman