The INNOVATIVE Spider-Man 2 (2004) Movie Game - Retrospective Review
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- Spider-Man 2 was an ambitious and revolutionary game that shaped what we expect from Spider-Man games today. It was the first to introduce webs that attach to buildings, and it included an open world New York City for you to explore. Although this is pretty standard nowadays, it was a pretty big deal back in 2004. It also features the voices of the movies cast, including Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Alfred Molina. It's considered to be one of the best superhero games every made and is highly regarded amongst fans. So now, nearly 2 decades after its release, we'll return back to world of Spider-Man 2 and discuss how it holds up today.
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I like how Doc Oc is a master in prosthetics, but lets his friend just walk around without an arm.
Haha true 😹
Master meaning builds robotic arms that take over causing him to become a villain? Yes. Indeed
@@stop94motion Hey all you need is to stay away from faulty power outlets and you're safe.
Oh and avoid mini-suns.
@@stop94motion what kind of a comment is this, the Sam raimi spidermans doc ocs arms worked perfectly fine until the neuro link popped, what does that have to do with him not making a basic prosthetic for his friend who has no arm?
@@Hevenlee lol wut…..it would still use the same chip even as a “basic prosthetic”
Therefore just as likely to go wrong
This game was my therapy after the long torturous days of getting bullied at school. It felt so cool to swing around New York and beat up thugs. It was as close as to getting to be Spidey as one possibly could. It will forever live in my heart as a game that got me through the tough times.
same here man. bless this game.
Same dude!
Me too!!
My therapy has always been GTA. Especially V/Online. But the Spider-Man games too.
head up high brother i’m glad you stuck it through
If there's one thing I've learned over these Marvel retrospective videos, it's that having a creepy carnival level is almost guaranteed to be one of AlwaysNerdy's favorite level.
You’re not wrong! It’s an easy win for me 😂
I can't blame him tbh
The Iron Man! th-cam.com/video/9ExCG1GJku4/w-d-xo.html
@@alwaysnerdyretros youre wrong about him (Tobey), nerdy!! Hes amazing!!!!! in all 3 games!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@alwaysnerdyretros dont dare sht on spider-man 3 please thank you
I love how they clearly sacrificed polygons on some parts of black cat's model to make sure they could detail an _important area_
Yeah 😉😂
Looks like they had a couple of "speed bumps" during "development" .
Gave her a haircut to compensate for the processing power needed 😅
“oh no! Doctor Connor’s class…” the whole line makes me giggle everytime
He says It with such little care lol
I love "dont worry mr. Azis these pizzas are in good hands" in a hella monotone voice
@@jacquesistomin Come to think of it, he does kind of deliver his lines like he's narrating a book.
Turning on the spider senses while that's being said will always be funny
Everyone is giving it their all (except for Toby).
Then again he was kind of monotone in the movies too. Maybe that's just how he sounds?
This Black Cat will always be the best version. Her voice is soft but slightly gravelly and very human. Shame they didn't show her more in the game and sequels
Don't forget the theme music that accompanies her🤣
Definitely would smash
She absolutely 1000% awakened many things in us as kids when we played this. Dang, watching this was a trip, I had completely forgotten how much pure sex appeal she was in this game lmao
But unfortunately Peter prefers MJ to Black Cat. Peter should be with Black Cat, even though she's is a thief, but she always helps Spider-Man and supports him
“Having trouble with your laser heard they got pills for that” -spidey. that quote flew over my head as a kid lol
i played this game for endless hours as a kid, glad someone is finally doing a retrospective on it
Originally, I couldn't save the game's progress on my PS2 because I had too many files. So I tried to complete the game in one whole day many times. But of course, my mom would stop me to either do homework, chores, etc., because she didn't want me to waste time playing it. I deleted old files of games either I only borrowed and don't play anymore or games I outgrew and were no longer fun. So I am finally able to save it whenever.
i was the same, i would always play after school and would try beating it in one sitting but never could lol. i wish i had my old gamecube bc i’d love to go back and play it.
@@knottyx3 Another game I couldn’t save at the time either was for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. I’m glad I cleared all of those useless saved files to make more space to finally finish stuff from my childhood.
Feeling like needing to relax, I'd bang this on and swing around for a few hours. Maybe catch a balloon or two🎈.
@@knottyx3 Did you ever play Simpsons hit and run?
I used to get overwhelmed with boss battles as a kid, so Mysterio’s health bar fake out following the one punch take down cracked my ten year old self up alot more than it should have. 😂
Same. I was like "how are we gonna do this huuuuge boss battle in this store???" *one punch later* "oh....thats hilarious!!!"
Lol I remember pressing the A button on my Xbox controller to skip the cutscene. I pressed the A button too many times, and the second it got out of the cutscene, I had accidentally punched Mysterio. Then he was defeated. I was so confused 😅
The first time I played the game I was on low health at the start of the battle. I was super scared when his health bar showed up, but it was absolutely hilarious.
Lol in my recent playthrough of the game I did on my channel, I actually charged up my jump meter and prepared to nail him with the one punching attack you can do when standing still with a fully charged jump, the name of which I can't remember right now.
But I was too close to him, so when I went to hit him, it looked like Spidey had just... lightly pushed him backwards. And that was enough to send Mr. Beck crashing into the wall.
Hey, Spidey can bench-press ten tons, Bruce Campbell himself said so, so I can buy Spidey besting an average guy by just pushing him over. 😂
I love Bruce Campbell's narration in this game. He is so hilarious.
He was a must especially since most of couldn’t even read at the time
The Mysterio levels are always super bittersweet for me. They're my favorite levels, but getting to them marks a near-end point for the game, so I always get upset that the game isn't longer.
I think they are more of middle of the game than near the end.
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I always felt that this and TASM were the strongest movie-based Spider-Man games. Especially how the TASM game functioned as a sequel to the movie as opposed to it's own adaptation of the film.
Along with Wolverine
The web swinging in TASM was great as well, the closer camera angle really gives you a sense of speed!
@@maxjax977 eh
@@Dynamo33 I think the whole point of TASM's swing mechanic was the cinematics. The camera stayed up close with Spider-man, he always takes long falls and the camera cuts close to give the impression of speed and his Web Rush is basically an excuse to do spider-acrobatics similar to what you see in the movie.
People can say that the combat system is a rip-off of the Arkham games or that the swing mechanic isn't very engaging but for me the gameplay was good enough and its shortcoming was supplemented by a great overall story.
When Activision wasn't a lost cause for a publisher.
Think Tobey's more melancholy voice acting fits right in with Peter's sense of conflict and fatigue.
I always felt like Tobey's Spider-Man was characterized better in the video games than in the actual films lol. He's a lot wittier and more like comic Peter in general in the games.
Oh interesting. He definitely has more jokes and quips in the game. I think I felt like Tobey was giving more effort in his movie performance though
@@alwaysnerdyretros That's true.
@@alwaysnerdyretros definitely more effort in the movies but honestly closer to the comics script in the games
@@christopherbucher7017 that’s true too!
Black Cat showing up as Peters relationship with MJ deteriorates is literally genius storytelling. I would love to see Black Cat just melt Peter Parker on the big screen some day.
I think they had Josh Keaton voice most of the first game because they weren’t sure if they were gonna be able to get Tobey in, so he could’ve very well been next up to play Spidey for this game
yeah it was very intense given tobey had of course always a different schedule and they weren‘t quite sure to use them so they made josh record the lines too
i mean some are still like this in the game and some got changed because of the gobby bonus run
@@BEER-OTFG that’s the only reason we got the goblin mode to begin with Josh had already contributed to the entire game and it didn’t make sense just to cut it so they added the goblin mode
Josh Keaton recorded his lines as Spidey in the first movie tie-in but was cast as New Goblin instead when Tobey decided to voice Spidey
Yeah I noticed that when playing as Goblin in Spider-Man 1, would that have made that his first role as Spider-Man
@@dolier2802 yes, but unofficially I guess.
In a better alternate dimension, Activision ain’t a shitty publisher and rereleases all classic Spider-Man games on current gen consoles.
they literally can’t they lost the license 😂
Judging that they're making deals with multiple game publishers making remasters for current consoles isn't so far fetched but neither is possibly botching them up like Sonic Colors.
Ah the good ol days when Activision wasn't soulessly absorbing small publishers for their COD games. Making licensed games like Spider-Man 2 and originals like Prototype
I did say in a better alternate dimension.
@@kennethlaurie7809 Prototype was actually the Spider-Man 4 tie-in game until the movie was cancelled and it was changed hahah
Always liked Black Cat the most out of Spidey's love interests. Great review!
Thank you!
This game is probably the reason I always preferred her over MJ
That's I love the symboite ending of Web of Shadows
For me it’s MJ. She loved Peter for who he was. Felicia only loved Spider-Man. She was very toxic for him, and it would never work unfortunately
@@pikapal91 in the comics that's probably the case, but as I'm not much of a comic reader. All other media (like this game) try to show Felicia as this more wild, fun loving, kinda crazy girl. As where Mary Jane is either the damsel in distress or the one who "forces" Peter to choose between his double life (because of the Raimi movies influence). She really needs a more comic accurate depiction in the more mainstream media...
That freaking Mysterio room with the mirrors still haunts me to this day; those clones of Spider-Man really traumatized me for some reason; Its been nearly 20 years, but I STILL have to beat that part with my eyes closed! And it all came back when I watched Far From Home in theaters 😂🤣
The giant mysterio watching beneath the upside down room always used to freak me out when i was a kid lmao
That section is more frustrating to me than anything. 15 Videos I did of this game on my channel, and I only died once... and it was to those damn Spidey clones.
I died to a nutshot, too, since the clone said "Nuts" right as he dealt the final blow. Talk about a brutal way to go out. At least I got to use the Spider-Man 1 death jingle afterwards.
I wish the Spider-Man mirror clones were used more in the game they’re really fun to fight maybe if they put them in the arena mode or something. You don’t even have to fight them just break the mirrors really fast every 3rd mirror is one you have to break so you could do it pretty fast without even taking damage I did have a lot of trouble when I was kid playing this game for the first time tho
I love how Josh Keaton is playing Harry’s best friend, and obviously he would go on to play Spidey himself
Peter's line to Quentin about there being pills to help with his laser kills me even now after all these years 😆
Sometimes I'm surprised at some of the jokes they managed to get into T rated games like this or Jak, or Ratchet and Clank.
The cgi cutscenes are amazing for a ps2 era game. Imagine if they remastered this game and made the whole thing look like that. This is still hands down my favorite Spider-Man game
The old Spiderman 2 is way beyond this new trash coming out
@@straightfrommissouri it’s actually crazy how delusional you virgins get over nostalgia, literally one of Spider-Man’s ps4s dlcs beats this game, it was amazing for it’s time but be real
@@straightfrommissouri Thats quite a fucking take brother.
@@straightfrommissouriHahahaha! If you really believe that, that really sucks for you. I can't imagine not being hyped for Spider Man 2 in Oct. Stay mad and enjoy your PS2 game I guess 😂
Like resi 2 and 3 and Dino crisis 2.
This game makes you realize how much more interesting the movies could have been with Black Cat.
Also that I apparently never got anywhere in this game, I remember absolutely none of this. I know I generally spent most of my time just swinging around, but I thought I played some of it.
I never knew about the boss challenges. I never got past the 75 enemies.
Hahhahaha same!! I only did the first 3 missions 😂
It's been 8 movies, 9 next week and she hasn't appeared in none of them. Sorta mentioned in tasm2.
@@MrREAPERsz that's actually a good point. At this point I don't really see a good way to introduce her to the current mcu movies. Maybe once Peter goes to college.
@@MrREAPERsz I know. I can't believe we've had 8 Spider-Man movies (Spider-Verse doesn't count) and not one Black Cat appearance. Maybe they could bring back one of the other Spideys and introduce her?
I love how well performed Doc Oc is in the game. Alfred Molina brought his A game. Not super common for the movie games back in the day
Holy shit, when MJ said "He's there" that felt targeted as shit. Peter would have felt those words cut him from across the state
Peter's not even hiding his voice in that Spider-Man suit. And MJ did say that a part of her always knew about his alter ego in the movies.
"Activision asked to tone it down a little"
Man, times sure do change
Now they try to make mj as ugly as possible
Nothing will ever compare to the Raimi Spider-Man era. The movies the game everything surrounding those movies were peak.
Eh it's pretty overrated especially because most of the human "drama" feels like a bad soap opera films like Spiderverse, Logan, TDK trilogy, last two avengers films and stuff Captain America trilogy
@@babaracus9583 Even if it is overrated it deserves to be
@@babaracus9583Logan was great though.
Man I love how this game captures that grandness and spectacle that old films did when it came to the music instead of just blatantly taking music tracks from the films and putting them into the games
I honeslty think that everyone would love raimi theme rather than spiderman 2 game theme but i respect your opinion
@@zygzakmcqueen9491 true
I remember as a kid I use to see the cutscenes and say “I hope games look this good one day, like a movie” thank god times change😮💨
playing as goblin in the first was so underrated, it was hilarious being on the glider trying to hide in the shadows replicating spidermans stealth
I wish this game (Along with Activision's other Marvel games), were released on modern consoles. Cause future generations need to experience these masterpieces.
"We're all going to die" -Weird looking lady in burning building
@@darkblades1201 "GIANT LIZARDS" J Jonah Jameson.
Agreed. I'm just lucky I have a Wii so I was able to get it for GameCube a few years ago.
Really? I get that Spiderman 2 was a big deal when it came out, but it has clearly aged. It has to be the most popular of the Activision Marvel games, I'd have to imagine any others would have aged even worse. Spiderman PS4 is really what Spiderman 2 wishes it could have been.
@@darrellgardner4561 just because a game didn't age well, doesn't mean it's a bad game. It makes you appreciate it a whole lot more.
Apparently for Spiderman 4, Bruce Campbell was going to be revealed as Mysterio in the begining of the movie as a joke. Spidey walks mysterio into the police station. Mysterio would have a gut and he'd be revealed to be Campbell. I think thats hilarious and wish we could've seen that. Plus it makes sense in a way. Campbell seems to show up in each one and Mysterio keeping tabs on spiderman makes sense.
Probably safe to say we'll see a similar gag in the Spider-Man 4 fan film, since it's adapting what they know about the original plans for the movie before it got canceled as faithfully as possible. It'd be amazing if they got a similar-looking guy to do the part.
One of my favorites of all time! This one got me into gaming as a kid being able to BE Spider-Man blew my mind. Great video, man! I’ve always wanted a long form deep dive into this game.
🙌🏽
It really made you “FEEL” like Spider-Man
I drive trucks for a living and when I saw this on my recommendations I thought to myself what the hell I had no idea he made one for Spider-Man two come to find out you literally just uploaded it looking forward to watching this While I am at work now I can have something to listen to until I get home and play the Spider-Man DLC for avengers
Hahaha I hope you enjoy it! Be careful with Avengers btw. Apparently there’s a bug right now that takes away almost all your units. Hopefully it’s patched by the time you get home 🤞
No way! This is my favorite video game of all time. I was actually working on a Spider-Man 2 "Cut content" video when I stumbled upon this video. I'm so glad someone finally mentioned some of the hidden details in this game! Like did you know there was a few cut segments from the Quentin Beck challenge? Or a cut segment where Dr.Connors drinks a formula right before Doc Ock attacks him. (Don't mind me geeking out lol)
Btw, something's to look out for in your Spider-Man 2002 retrospective:
There are exclusive Kraven levels for only the Xbox version. (Those files still exist for the other versions of the game)
There is also a hidden UFO in the Razor's edge level. (Not really important but an interesting easter egg lol)
By clearing the game in a higher difficulty, You can play as the Green Goblin (An alternative story line with Harry Osborn trying to clear his family's name)
There was originally plans to include more levels such as saving people from a burning building. These got removed because of the recent September 11 attacks
There's a lot more interesting details but I'll leave it at that!
These retrospectives are amazing. Keep up the good work!
Very interesting! I didn’t know about the UFO in Spider-Man 1, I’ll have to keep an eye out for that! Can you still play the kraven levels on a Ps2 copy?
Are you still doing your video on cut content? That would be really cool and I definitely missed some in this video
@@alwaysnerdyretros Unfortunately there’s no way to access the Kraven levels on the PS2 version. Not even modders have attempted to put the levels together on the PC version but the files are still there. You would think it would be exclusive to the PlayStation version being it’s a Sony movie lmao but that was because of the early trend that Xbox games just had to deliver more than the other consoles. Luckily most game devs realized this was just too much work to make major modifications to their games so they stopped this trend around 2003-2004 (though they still somewhat exist in today’s standards)
@@kinglynerd ohhh I gotcha. I was hoping since the files were there you’d be able to access it. I never played the kraven level so I’m definitely going to give that a try! Thanks for the insight btw!
I'd love to see that cut content video, too... first time I've heard of the Beck and Dr. Connors stuff! ;)
I remember I spent an evening trying to figure out the UFO in the first movie game years and years ago. If I recall, there is a way to actually reach it and stand on it, but you can't interact with it beyond that.
Has anybody else noticed that Peter Parker's video game model has some sort of stitch on the right side of his glasses, which is funny because Peter made that during the ending of Spider-Man 2 when his glasses almost broke when he jumped off a building earlier to retrieve his powers. Its also funny because it was not necessary for him to have his glasses in the first place! :P
I actually think Tobey's voice acting is great, _most_ of the time (the most infamous example of when it isn't would be his reaction to Doc kidnapping Aunt May lol). 100% agree on the chemistry between Pete and Felicia though, that little arc is one of the game's many highlights for me
This game is absolutely legendary, it holds up amazingly well and was so innovative for it's time
It’s so interesting that Dr, Conners suggested getting Octavius some help, and years later in No Way Home, the Peter of the MCU managed to be that help.
Hey man I appreciate these retroactives, it’s a blast through memory lane, and you’ve put me onto some undiscovered classics
Thank you! I’m glad you’ve been enjoying them! I’ve been having a blast revisiting them too
You should do the first ps1 Spider-Man game as well! Just in time for the new movie . That game was full of crazy call backs to the comics considering it’s time
I really want to do that one soon as well! I don’t know when yet, but I loved that game so much when it came out
That game is so good played it all the time growing up
Damn if the black cat we got in this game is the less sexy version, I can’t even fathom what the original would’ve been like.
Truly a tragic loss for all mankind.
Was very happy to see this in my subscriptions. Great in-depth review, well structured, and uses time well. I look forward to more Spider-Man stuff.
Regarding Josh Keaton: Technically, Spectacular Spider-Man isn't his first time leading; he was cast as Spider-Man for the first movie tie in game and even recorded a lot of lines before Tobey signed on. Rather than let that work go to waste, they reused his takes for the play as Green Goblin cheat code and basically turned it into a what if scenario for Harry. I'm sure you would have discovered this at some point whenever you review that game, but I figured I'd share.
Oh interesting! Thanks for the heads up! It makes sense, since he’s such a great voice for Peter. If I’m being honest, I’m most excited to play as goblin in that game 😆
This is one if my most nostalgic games ever.
In my head canon I just thought he was robbing the convenient store because he blew his budget on the Statue of Liberty illusion.
Also side note, I was pleasantly surprised by how the Spider-man ps4 Black Cat was on par with this depiction. Two excellent versions of the character.
Bruh I always thought the same thing.
PS4 Felicia was way more of an asshole
On par? Lol she don't look half as hot my guy
On par with SM2 Black Cat? I'd have to disagree with that one.
PS4 black Cat wasn't that likeable and wasn't as good in terms of design.
Yeah, she was definitely not as sexy in Spider-Man PS4. You couldn't have that in current year, sadly.
Actually in early stages, Black Cat was gonna be in the movie but was scrapped. But they kept her for the game.
I always felt that when Harry discovers Peter is Spider-Man, Peter could have easily just said that he was at a costume party which was attacked by Doc-Ock and was captured and asks Harry what was going on because he has captured Mj.
I remember playing this game for the first time, it really shook me, especially since I had first been exposed to the fever dream pc Spider-Man 2, so popping this into my PS2 a few years later was super new to me. Say, do you plan to cover Ultimate Spider-Man? That one is my favorite spidey game!
I’d love to get to Ultimate Spider-Man eventually! I’m not sure when yet, but it’s on my list
@@alwaysnerdyretros I was gonna suggest it but came down here looking if anyone else has already. Lo and behold here is the suggestion AND you saying you intend to do it. Very nice.
Keep up the good work!
My brother gave me this game on my birthday this year so i can finally play it again. And while aspect certainly did not age well (and that there is sadly nothing to unlock) I was still surprised how far ahead of its time game was. There quiet some moment of other spider-man games where I stoped and sayed "wow, this feature existed already back then?" (it was a damn long time since I last played that game). I would almost argue that, similar to the spiderman movies, this game showed how good super-hero games (and license games) actually can be.
And I still freakin love the mysterio arc (even more than the movie arc) and the interactions with black cat. Really glad the developers where alowed a lot of freedom with the story
all of your retrospectives are fire, but this is THE ONE that really hit home for me
Thank you!!! Anything in particular set this one apart?
@@alwaysnerdyretros This just used to be my favorite game when I was younger! I have such vivid memories of playing this game, delivering pizzas and saving balloons as spidey. This video was such a trip down memory lane. Keep up the great work💛💫
@@luckyplvys I totally understand that! I used to play the hell out of this game as a kid too. Thanks for the watching and commenting btw!
40:36 huh, whaddaya you know.
The Chrysler building is where tobey’s peter goes to relax. Nice.
this might be the most underrated channel ive come accross this year
My favourite hint token is the one where Bruce says “you know when someone looks at their controller and whines ‘there’s only one attack button’........” I would repeat it over and over again and laugh my butt off every time. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It'd be really cool to see you do Web of Shadows as it had alot of potential in its sequel
I’d love to try that game! I never played it when it released, but I keep hearing so many good things about it
That would be amazing! Before Spiderman Ps4 came out, it was my favorite Spiderman game. It still holds second place
@@alwaysnerdyretros Ohhh dude, you should play it, my personal favourite Spider-Man game, and some awesome comic references, my main man Moon Knight is in it too! Not entirely in character, but his presence is still epic.
I want to play that game so badly but I dont have anywhere to play it and thats why I want a remaster so bad
@@alwaysnerdyretros The controls are wonky and so is the swinging. But for the time that it came out, it was incredible.
13:12 Whoever decided to drop that easter egg deserves a raise
1:04:38 WTF I had no clue this even existed or that there was a secret boss in the game, I’ve played this like a million times as a kid and this blew my mind. I guess the Lizard was supposed to be in the game but cut. Crazy how over a decade later I’m learning stuff about my favorite Spiderman game.
Love how you brought up those tutorial easter eggs. If you just walk to your destination instead of swinging during the tutorial, Bruce gets pretty pissed and tries to remind you that Spider Man uses webs to swing haha
The style of the cut scenes just give me so much nostalgia it's insane
I grew up w/ the raimi trilogy and I was in 4th grade when I played this game. I remember raging during the Quentin beck trials (the laser one especially) b/c there would be times where I would get extremely cocky and try to just get to the end but then getting zapped and losing and raging . I wish Treyarch would remaster this hidden gem.
One thing I always enjoyed doing when playing this was getting a cool pose or action shot ready when the chapter freeze frame would cue up. Whether doing a swing, or standing at a corner of a building so spidey stands more upright and heroic. It was always fun to try and time it. It was basically photo mode before the next generation of consoles had it. Anyone else ever do this?
This channel is the perfect level of nostalgia for me. My fingers are crossed so tightly there's an Ultimate Spider-Man video coming up
Thank you! Next will be the Spider-Man 1 movie game and that’s as far as I’ve planned out lol. I’d absolutely love to play ultimate Spider-Man before too long though! It’s definitely been highly requested lately
This game was ahead of times. This game was so much fun
46:25 guess he'll stay quiet forever after that hit
the secret to sm2 is if you are going down the web will be longer but if you have upwards momentum the web will be short...they really implemented the aspects of a bungee cord into it. But if they allowed you to climb the web like in ultimate Spiderman I think ppl would have enjoyed it alot more. This dief needs a remake
I never knew calypso was a boss in the arena mode, damn i really hope it’s possible to port this game to current/next gen consoles
You can likely emulate this on a laptop at this point
@@satsu3098 NO PLAY ON PS2!!!!!!!!!!
yep!!!!!!!!!!! and there ARE UNLOCKABLE COSTUMES IN THE GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BUT, YOU HAVE TO BE AT THE LOCAL DISTRICT STORE AT A CERTAIN POINT BETWEEN THE DAY AND NIGHT TO UNLOCK IT THERE!!!!!!!! AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT TO UNLOCK THE VARIOUS ONES!!!!!!!! ITS A HIDDEN EASTER EGG FOR THEGAMERPEOPLEPERSONS!
I barely touch the arena and I never knew that we can battle bosses there. I guess I kust swinging better as a kid. 🤣
Rip our boy John, MJ cancelled the marriage on the day it was set and just ran off with spiderman. John deserves better.
Rhino was voiced by John Dimaggio who is bender from Futurama and Mysterio was voiced by James Arnold Taylor who is the voice of Obi Wan Kenobi in the CloneWars...
“My balloon 🎈 “ never forget that side missing that I could never do as a kid 😂😂😂
Love this version of Black Cat.
Have to love the hour plus long reviews. The more thorough the better. And the fact that the last one was only 2 weeks ago? Pretty impressive. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I’ll keep them coming
I remember the first time I beat Mysterio's ass in the grocery store as a kid. I laughed so hard when I realized he went down with one punch after he kept hyping himself up to be this absolute menace that he never truly was.
I was about 13 when this game first came out and loved playing it on PS2! I remember hearing a secret line from Bruce Campbell if you just run around the streets, he will say to stop running and swing like Spider-Man! I would really like to play this game again once I get the console to do so!
a cool detail i noticed while watching this is that during air combos, time appears to slow down a little, which makes it appear less like spider-man is somehow hovering in the air in real time (like the two most recent games, and the third upcoming one) and more like he's insanely quick with his punches
Well yeah….have you ever even played this game?
32:07 this entire dialogue sequence is fantastic! I would love to see a more character development with Octavious. It'd be fantastic to see Molina's Ock in a spin off tv show even an animated one.
Haven't watched the video yet but this is one of my favorite games of all time, the story and gameplay are amazing
You’ve got to do Ultimate Spiderman. I played Spiderman 2 and Ultimate Spiderman for hours and hours as a kid on my gamecube. The nostalgia hurts so good
I've heard that Sam Raimi wanted to go with Vulture for Spider-man 4, in my opinion he should've gone with the Lizard because we had seen Dr. Connors in the other movies and it would've made more sense to have him be the villain in the 4th movie.
This is such an amazing review! I’m so glad you’re covering these movie tie-in Spider-Man games. Keep up the great work!
Thank you!!!!
I love that you pick the funniest rag doll clips to go under your narration 😂 46:44 kills me, I forgot how much you get slapped around in this game 🤣🤣
Big plus, running head first into a gang and uppercutting them was the best and funniest way to take them on! Glad to see the tradition carry on
I remember searching the city looking for Black Cat after her last mission. Lol
For its years it was a hell of an excellent movie-based project.
Tobey sounds like he's drowsing off half the time tbh
20:23 "You'll never catch me spiderman! Not when i shift into...MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!"
one of the things l loved most about spiderman two was being able to go into buildings. Y'know what l mean? You can go into nightclubs, or gyms, and beat down whatever criminal scum is hiding and he has a pun for it. "Hiding out in a gym... hows that WORKING OUT for ya?" Or even going into one of their hideouts and wrecking house. lt adds more depth to the city that l personally felt spiderman ps4 lacked. I love that game too, don't get me wrong, but it just didn't.... have exactly what l was hoping for.
I mean there was technically hideouts you could go into in Spider-Man PS4 but I get ya as it loaded into a different place entirely.
@@Gatorade69 yeah, they were "hideouts" but they were more like... side missions or something. Vs going into a building, beating ass, and walking out
I mainly recall the balloons and pizza side missions, mainly because they were so bizarre compared to the typical content of a video game.
I’m still not over the fact they “Dialed down” Black Cats hotness.
HOW?!
I can’t imaginer her being hotter than she already was
Lol what ? How is a 3D woman hot 😒 so weird
@@MrAjking808 What women are you meeting in 2D?
@@iReiGNxx none lol I want a real woman not getting hard over something that’s not real
@@MrAjking808 finish him
never before noticed you can see black cat in the intro cutscene after he mentions “boy meets another girl” at 5:32. wow
This specific game deserves a remake
You're seriously one of my favorite retrospective reviewers!😁👍
I seriously love your channel so much, look forward to every single video essay!
Thank you!!! That means a lot to me!
Those prerendered cinematics by Blur the VFX company, they also made the Halo cutscenes for the remaster and the cutscenes in the first movie game.
"to really give you the feeling of being Spider-Man"
Me: *Points to the TV Leo style*
Oh my, my favourite Spider-Man game! I used to play it a lot when I was a kid and had Xbox. Years later I replayed it with the GameCube emulator, and I still love this game. Though it is sometimes repetitive and voice acting is 50/50, it was so innovative at that time (in comparison to other Spidey games). I also like that there are many tricks you can do in this game (I’d like to see most of them in PS5 Spider Man 2), and you can deliver pizza with this iconic theme. Thanks for reminding me how cool it is even with PS4 Spidey released)
Thanks for watching!
Fighting Shocker in a warehouse is definitely a PS1 Spider-Man 2 reference
There are two things about the swinging that I love in this game that I will never forget about ever since I was a child:
1. The swinging used momentum. Even the new spider man games don't fully utilize this. Sure, you can use "momentum", but it was very obviously "pushed along" and faked. It always felt like there was a limit to the speed and you would get up to that max speed with little trouble. But in this older game, you could WHIP super super fast, if you dropped from a tall building, and could even spin circles around buildings, along with the swinging web "sticking" to other parts of buildings if they touched it (I think the new games kind of do this)
2. The other thing I liked, was that when you swung in this game, it would leave behind little webs. This made a lot of sense cause why would the webs suddenly just disappear when you stopped swinging. IRRC since the game is old, it only keeps the last 3 webs swung, but it was still a cool detail that I was sad to see not emulated in the newer games.
The Mysterio music not only takes cues from old timey sci-fi films, especially with th refrains but it also has a little bit of Majora's Mask in it at 1:15:43, it almost sounds like the game over tune from those N64 Zelda games.
I'll never forget how nervous I was for the final fight only for me to punch Ock once and he got stuck in a corner and wasn't able to hit me so I just wailed on him beating him easily.
Reminds me of the final fight in XMen Legends 2 at least when I played it. I switched to Magneto and some how I started levitating. I decided to levitate to the ceiling and Apocalypse kept trying to chase me...totally ignoring the other 3 characters taking pot shots at him on the ground. Easiest and weirdest boss fight ever
Amazing video as always, bub.
Thank for checking it out!
This game was my childhood! So may memories are flooding back now. Glad I found this video. I still remember playing this game Christmas day in 2004 on my GameCube.
I never beat it (always got stuck around the Mysterio section in the arena).
I live for these videos. Never gonna play these games so it’s great to hear someone talk about them this in depth.
There great games