Remember the warm and fuzzy feeling's from Spider-Man: the movie game? Remember the even fuzzier feeling's from Spider-Man 2? Imagine, the open manhattan of Spider-Man 2, in a real, breathing, talking comic book. In Ultimate Spider-Man, we get all that and more than we could ask for. The game loosley follows what happened in the "black suit" story ark of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic series. Keep in mind that this is a different dimension than the movies, and the original comics, the long running series "The Amazing Spider-Man".
GAMEPLAY
Ok, so the freeroam Manhattan from Spider-Man 2, with part of Queen's added is in the inviroment. You can't enter the Shops, and resturants like in the predecesser, but that's all right. Combat, is just slightly different, once again having the kick button. The main mission's are fun, but the side missions get old. The main feature that make's Ultimate different than 2, is that some of the missions involve playing as the archnemesis, Venom. The venom mission's involve jumping, and downright combat in linear levels. Venom can hurl cars, and whack enemies from a distance using the suit's tendrils. To gain health, you must feed on civilians/enemies. After story mode is finished, Venom is a playable character in freeroam.
GRAPHICS
The graphics in the game are much better than Spider-Man 2, but that's because it went for cell shaded cartoon style, rather than real. The game looks, like a moving version of the comic book.
STORY
The game follows the story of Peter Parker, 3 months after he seperated himself from the black suit. And the events that followed after Eddie Brock bonded with it.
AGE
It's not a scary game, but it does feature fantasy violence, which involves Spidey beating the bad guys, and some minor cursing, including H+++, D+++, and A++.
CONCLUSION
Ultimate Spider-Man is a fun, but short super hero action/adventure, freeroam, load of happyness. It is a tad short, but if you have a last gen console, you should check this one out. I give it a 7.9.
DETAILS
Developed by Treyarch
Published by Activision
Released in 2005
Rated T for Mild Language, and Violence by the ESRB
For Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, DS, GBA, and PC
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