Lmao I remember a Jurassic Park game on PS1 had a secret ending if you 100% the game where Jeff Goldblum tells you that you oughta go outside and do something.
After a few tries and needing a break from frustration, I figured out the trick. The guards all moved in a pattern that would eventually leave an opening to quickly zip web from shadow to shadow. These segments were divided into little safe areas for you to pay attention to the newer, slightly harder pattern and do it again. I managed to get through the stages pretty quickly and only getting hung up on the very, very last section because it had the shortest window of time and you really needed to thread the needle at the end. Felt like I'd get caught with a pixel of my toe out of the shadows.
Companies should bring back cheat codes for funsies. I miss those sort of cheats that were just goofy. Solid video as always, these Spider-Man videos give me life.
you can tell that video games were mainly developed to be fun. Today, video games are mostly just a product to make money. All these achievements are now only there to make money and keep the player in the game. At that time people voluntarily stuck to the game because it was so much fun. Don't want to know how many times I've played through Vice City or how many hours I've spent there with chaos and cheats. I can tell you a lot more than with GTA5.
Treyarch (Then): Guess we're the Spider-Man company now! Treyarch (Now): Which Call of Duty line are still making? Black Ops right, no Vanguard, people like that one right? Even the cheat code topic made me sad... Such a bygone era is gaming, when that was commonplace.
Damn shame what’s happened to them. They haven’t even had a full 3 year development cycle on their COD games since Black Ops 3 in 2015. BO4 had its campaign cut & replaced with a Battle Royale mode due to an over ambitious concept, Black Ops: Cold War had to be rushed out in 18 months & be a PS5 & Xbox Series S|X launch title & Vanguard Zombies feels like it had even less time than that (combined with having to adjust to a new engine as Vanguard was made with the Modern Warfare (2019) engine instead of what Treyarch have been using & evolving since World at War) with how barebones it is. Hopefully they’ll get at least 3 years to develop their next COD game (which given that Modern Warfare II (2022) is coming this year and the reports of Activision taking a year off next year, seems likely).
Bought this at a flea market a few years ago with a crappy plug and play ir Spider-Man game, but I was shocked to learn upon looking info up at the time that they managed to put in an entire second campaign/playthrough around Harry using the goblin suit+glider, along with him having entirely separate control and abilities
I am so shocked that you use all these cool animations for this series. You have a spiderman themed intro for your spider videos... Like holy shit who does that? Matt you've been inspiring me since 2012, don't fucking stop.
I remember unlocking the green goblin as a playable character, this was before internet so was shocked, I had to go to school 10 mins after but remember day dreaming about what it could be all day until I got home
I love that you mentioned how good it looks, because i've been seeing it get trashed in some reviews that i watched recently for nostalgic purposes, where reviewers keep praising Spiderman 2 and saying this one looks like shit. And honestly it confused me, because i still remember how the graphics were the first thing i noticed when i popped the game in back then, especially jumping from Enter Electro to this one on the next gen. The details like clothes at beginning, traffic below you while you're in the air, the textures, it was amazing
I'm in the same boat. I recently played through a modded version of Spider-Man 2 on the Gamecube emulator and used the character model/suit from the first game because it still looks that good compared to the sequel games
@@TheFeetCrusader Wait, so is that an actual model/mesh swap and not just a texture mod, cause I'd be interested in that. The first games model was pretty good.
@@coolster7092 It's a texture swap of the first game's suit put onto the the second game's model. It looks very clean in my opinion. Look up "Spider-Man 2 RE:Project" on youtube and you'll see some videos of the different suits and work done on the game. Pretty neat stuff. 🙂
@@thelegendarygitarooman8833 not trying to be rude but just saying to get this done you have to speed boost the swing faster by holding down r2 on ps2 then you have no problem beating the level
If memory serves, the game based on the second movie poked fun at this. During the web-swing tutorial for “Spider-Man 2: The Video Game” Bruce Cambell remarks: “You can’t swing from NOTHING…You’re not THAT good yet.”
I remember getting an XBox original years ago, and wanting to find a game to play on it. I ordered this game on Amazon, (since Spider-Man 2 was too pricy then), and I had a real blast. Played it a bunch, and loved it. Dated, yeah sure, but it was of it’s time, and I loved playing it. It’s a fun game! Also, that Goblin gameplay was great, loved how they made it work. Kinda wish more games worked in stuff like that.
Calling something "dated" is a detracting and superficial way of pointing out the time period it came from. Imagine talking about a game from 2002, just to call it "dated" 20 years later. You're essentially saying that it's too indicative of its time to be good, which is just silly, especially considering that everything in your comment contradicts that statement.
This game had a surprising level of care and effort put into it. It's not the greatest spider man game ever, but it had lots of fun extras. The fact you could replay the entire game as a Green Goblin, with his own unique voice, was a step they didn't need to take. Love it for that.
Oh gosh thank you so much for clearing up the Kraven stuff! My friend and I played the GameCube version of this game a lot as kids and we’d heard Kraven was in the game but were confused when we couldn’t find him anywhere. Never knew until watching this that he was Xbox exclusive! It’s probably been common knowledge out there for a while but I never knew until now. Now I can finally sleep again, I’ve had many a restless night all these years as I lie awake wondering where my psycho hunter was in my Spider-Man game! … Okay maybe not but it was still interesting to learn! Thanks Spider-Matt! You’ve done the world a service 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
The bomb mission was easy. It was the Oscorp stuff that was legitimately difficult and made me want to stop playing altogether. I remember getting an "All Levels Unlock" cheat code to just skip Oscorp and play the rest of the game.
@@solblackguy I think everyone was able to beat the bomb level even if they didn't even knew how they did it (like me) but the Oscorp one was probably the reason a lot of us never finished the game as kids
@@TheDarknash I agree. Hell, I don't even remember the bomb level either until this video. Like you said, I probably beat it in 1-2 tries anyway. But Oscorp was a pain in the ass until you realize you're supposed to web zip from shadow to shadow.
I remember the Oscorp stealth levels scared the crap out of me the first time I played them. If the alarm is sounded, they send out these Super Soldier robots to gun you down. That means you gotta hide in the shadows until the alarm turns off. But I don't have a problem with them anymore, and I would often screw around on said levels.
I honestly wish Tobey Maguire channeled more of his performance in costume as Spider-Man in the video games, within his film portrayals. One thing I never really liked about Raimi Peter was that he wasn't as much of a quippy nuisance to his villains and lacked a lot of personality behind the mask in general, but here and in Spider-Man 2, he's basically exactly what I wanted, especially when he talks smack to Shocker
Idk to me I like when he was more serious in his fights because idk I just think it would be weird trying to fight doc ock and making jokes while saving aunt may it just makes the scene less tense
The best thing this game did was model itself after the Neversoft PS1 Spider-Man game. Better sequel to that than Enter Electro, for certain. Edit: Follow-up would probably be a more accurate term than sequel, come to think of it.
@@SullySadface Ah, damn. It wasn't until I saw it spelled out just now that I figured out WHY they chose EEL NATS. But then, it was years since I last picked it up.
As someone who's completed the bomb mission on the hardest difficulty many times, I can confidently say that it's not random at all. It's hard as hell though, that's for sure. On the superhero difficulty it requires nigh perfect timing, as well as knowing well the enemy placements and the best path from one bomb to another. You also have to consistenly web certain robots before they shoot, because their damage is insane and they can obliterate you in a couple of seconds. Really hated this mission while I was still learning the ins and outs and struggling with it, but now it's my personal highlight of the game. On the hardest difficulty the mission is such an adrenaline rush that there is nothing quite like it in any other Spider-Man game, a really unique and intense skillcheck that could only exist in a Spidey game. Really liked the GBA version as well, although the second Kraven boss fight is a bitch.
I remember when I first played the green goblin campaign I thought "HA!!! This damn robots will see!!" But no, it still was a pain even with the green goblin
This game takes me back man. This and PS1 Spider-Man were the ones I played the most. I even remember trying to do Green Goblin runs of this game, he was busted.
Honestly the most fun cool part was you could eventually play the whole game as the Green Goblin. Had that been done now we all know that the content would have been $$$$ dlc.
This was my first experience, at least that I can remember, with Spiderman. Considering I'm an actual pro wrestler now who takes a ton of inspiration from The Wall Crawler, this game basically put me on a path I never really thought about until I saw this video.
Oh the movie tie-in, not sequel to the Ps1 games. Neat, always had fun with this one and that Harry Osborn mode was infinitely superior to the "New Goblin" we eventually got
Bro, Matt... you have NO IDEA how long I've been looking for Die By The Sword. I remember playing an early 3D knight game in the 90's that my computer barely ran and I've been trying to find it for over 20 years. THANK YOU!!!!!
One other thing to note is the cheat where you unlock the Mary Jane skin. It’s only available in the black label version of the game and not the Greatest Hits re-release. My guess is that it was removed because of the ending cutscene where, if you equip that skin, makes it look like Mary Jane was making out with herself.
The Green Goblin was so fun to play as, also you were able to use the cheat to unlock all levels, load up the final cutscene on the hardest difficulty (this unlocks Goblin)
I first played this game in 2004 when I was 4 and I remember never being able to get past the mission when u go inside the building lol. My cousin helped me get past the game but it was a fun experience, I was obsessed with the movies Spider-man 1 and 2 and this was the first game I chose to go with my ps2. Once I got Spider-man 2 I remember being I'm shock about the open world and swinging, I still replay it every year it's probably my favorite game of all time. I just love good superhero games like Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Spider-man 1,2, web of shadows, shattered dimensions, Ultimate Spider-man, batman arkham games, X-men Origins Wolverine and so many more. I keep my 360 and ps2 hooked up to always be able to play these classics
It's crazy how much games from your childhood are engrained in your memory. I haven't seen this game in probably 18 years but still remember it so vividly.
One of my "favorite" memories of this game was using the cheat code to play as Mary Jane and I skipped levels I didn't like playing. After I beat the Green Goblin, I watched as the Mary Jane I was playing as made out with the NPC Mary Jane. It was the first time I've ever seen something like that and it's still funny to me how Treyarch didn't think of the consequences when they made the cheats
Man I really love this game. My ps2 copy is so old that it still has the two girls one bridge oversight. Scorpion's story being cut makes a lot of sense. Even as a kid I thought something was missing. They prop him up only for him to disappear after 1 level leaving no closure. I'm surprised you didn't mention the lab levels. Those were so intense as a kid.
Sometimes I think Die By the Sword doesn't actually exist, and was just a fever dream I had...... and then sometimes it's mentioned in a Spider-Man review, naturally.
A couple of fun facts: 1) All the cheat codes were in the official movie poster where they would normally print the movie credits. 2) Dwight Schultz, the voice actor for the Vulture in this game reprised his role for the 2018 game
What I remember the most is that giant robot mission. I use to think that was so dang cool I replayed it many times just to see it. The size of it was so neat to me. Plus the “stealth” section in Oz Corp is kind of what got me into stealth in the first place. Overall a solid game but nothing crazy. Loved it though
@@StudioInkblot I had to re look it up, it’s Oz Corps ultimate weapon. It’s right before you go into the office to steal paperwork from an office. That’s a crap explanation but that’s the best I got lol
I’m glad you not only talked about this Game but also the GBA version as well. I love the PS1 Spider-Man Games more though since I played those when they came out. But man to go back 20 Years when I was 15 all over again playing this Game just brings back so many memories. Especially playing as Goblin. Never realized the controls were the same as the PS1 Titles, though I knew I had seen them before 🤣
Hello Matt, it is me, a future person. Sony's Kraven the Hunter was great, it made a Kravillion dollars, and my favorite part was when the camera panned to Kraven's face and he said "It's Kravin time!" and started Kraving on people.
I rented this for a holiday weekend and had a blast. I still fondly remember it, despite the frustrating stealth levels. The only thing that sucked about it is that it was really short to the point I beat it as Spider-Man and the Goblin while still having time to screw around with cheat codes, all within a three day weekend. Probably would've been even better with more development time, a bigger budget and more free reign to do a different story that existed within the Raimi universe. Would've been cool to see what they could come up with, like maybe Kingpin as a major villain or something.
This game was so much fun back in the day. It was a proper evolution from the previous PS Spider-Man games, which those I thoroughly enjoyed, before Spider-Man 2 completely changed the formula for future Spider-Man games. It holds up really even today and reminds me of a simpler time in gaming.....
Technically, this was Spider-Man 3. I mean it's techincally (mechanically?) a successor to Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro. I have a vague memory of I think the actual Spider-Man 3 game having a reference to Enter Electro as well I think.
It's funny that you release this on this week in particular. I was just reminiscing about this game earlier this week. In particular, how absolutely ballin' some of the movie tie-in game's music tracks are, like the Green Goblin's theme. I have some fond memories of this game and even though the swinging is way out classed by Spider-Man 2, I think the level design and storytelling were pretty good, especially for the time.
I remember if you had the original release of this game (which I do have) you could type in a code that lets you be Mary Jane only she was clearly taller to match Spider-Man's height and at the end of the game in this mode Mary Jane makes out with herself. I assume Activision realized their mistake because upon the game's Greatest Hits release they altered it to where you couldn't be Mary Jane but just a random reporter lady and I think the cutscene just shows Spider-Man kissing MJ in that version.
I'm pretty sure this was the 1st videogame I sunk alot of my childhood into that wasnt my older brothers Super Mario World cart. All the unlockable costumes and cheats ruled. I was so glad that Ultimate Spiderman brought that spirit back with all the costumes and Venom mode, because that lack of extras really dragged the Spiderman 2 tie-in game down.
It Blew my mind when I learned that you could play the game as Green Goblin and as someone who used the cheats i was like "oh it'll be like the other cheats where its just a skin like how Shocker was just a skin" and then you play as Goblin w/ Glider and has his own set of moves My 9yr old MIND WAS BLOWN AWAY. In another reality someone figured out how to mod in a VS mode for the game where you could play as Goblin Vs Spider or any of the other villains
This game will always hold a special place in my heart, it just has so much going on that works. Sadly what doesnt work is turning around and half the combat. Turning is an animation on its own if you turn too far which has got me killed, and the fights with the foes who can break your combos or just grab you outright are a chore to deal with. Theres no real defense options so you gotta jump and pray
You forgot to mention 2 things: One, there was a tutorial and a some minigames where the narrator is Bruce Campbell, being his usual self of course. And one of the cheats made you into Mary Jane, which if you beat the game with, has her making out with herself on the bridge. This was reportedly removed in later copies of the game
Since they didnt have access to the movie, maybe they were like, “I would THINK Green Gobs would plant bombs in places and Spidey has to defuse em.” So they made that mission with that assumption?
"the emerald elf" still call goblin that to this day referencing the spectacular Spider-Man, josh Keaton voicing Harry here is hilarious. Goblin voiced by spiderman lmao
Man, I still play this game from time to time, another highlight for me personally was the inclusion of the grooviest man himself as a narrator in these games. Awesome review Matt.
I remember playing Spiderman on PS2 having trouble with a stealth mission going through vents and such and also that fight on the bridge, but thats basically all i remember from this game
I remember when Walmart had this game on their game system kiosk, I learned how to unlock Green Goblin and used that in their kiosk. All the other kids around were losing their s**t that I was playing as Green Goblin lol
I feel Norman looks more like future George Stacy Denis Leary than Willem Dafoe. Also I recall the game initially had MJ has an unlockable skin but it was removed in subsequent copies due to the ending where Spidey kisses MJ, so in turn MJ would be kissing herself. Different times, man.
I remember playing this it was so awesome! The stealth levels were disturbing to me as a young lad but beating the game older is just awkward good memories fighting green Goblin kicked my butt so many times
You forgot to mention one big thing Treyarch didnt JUST port spider-man to the sega dreamcast they also ported it to Windows 2000, Windows ME, and the OS i grew up on and what got me to play the game and fall in love with marvel back in 2004: WIndows XP
This makes me wonder what it would be like if Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies came out 20 years ago when every super hero movie got a PS2/Xbox/GameCube/GBA licensed game
I played this one a lot with a friend when it came out, but I never owned it until many years later. To this day I'm still stuck on that damn bomb mission.
Who else remembers the Kelloggs demo? The demo was just the original spider man ps1 pc port up to the rhino battle with a movie costume reskin. That was pretty cool to get a game with your cereal
I remember as a kid being blown away at how if spiderman 2 is on the memory card spiderman is way buffer on this game than if you played it and it's not.
The only memory I have of this game is having a dream one time that you could unlock a "Spider-Woman" by jumping off the tallest building in the game, spinning on the way down, and then jumping into the water. Other than that, all I can say is that I have played it before.
@@solblackguy yeah I was confused about that too, at least when the other rogue Treyarch Dev added Zombies mode to Call of Duty: World at War the higher ups at Activision just said "We can't give you any more resources or manpower due to the crunch but if you can get it done by the ship date we'll include it" so this is a weird case where Activision is more lenient and creator friendly than Sam Raimi
@@kapkant6197 probably because it was a movie tie-in game. I said before the game itself is great at the downside of being short and bound to the confines of the movie's story. Still, it would've been a good foundation for a franchise within the Raimi universe.
I thought for sure when you mentioned one level being terrible, you were going to mention the Oscorp secret weapon level, not too bad on easy difficulty but practically unplayable on the hard difficulty!
Man, I played this game like it was a second religion back in 2002. I played it on both my PS2 and my Xbox. My buddy had the PS2 version so I tried his then bought it for Xbox a couple weeks later. It was a lot of fun at the time. I played the whole game as the ALex Ross version most of the time. Well, after the first run through anyway. Such a cool design. It was easy to go from the Dreamcast Spider-Man controls to this game, which I liked a lot. I know that game was on PS2 first, but I never played it there. Only on Dreamcast. And, I have to say, them putting Spider-Man in THPS 2 is why I tried that game the first time and it led to years and years of me loving skating games. I never skated so i didn't think I'd enjoy those games, but I loved Spider-Man so I bought a copy of THPS2 (also on Dreamcast) and really really fell in love with that genre. Probably never would have played SSX if it weren't for that too. Good stuff.
Oh man! The PS2 version of this was the first video game I ever played, but we ended up trading it in for sonic heroes because it was so hard that even my older brothers couldn't get past the second level. Good times.
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Must have been awkward to beat this game as a full grown adult just to hear Tobey Maguire tell you to go outside and play.
post-9/11 early 2000's was a very, very different era compared to today's post-pandemic days :P
Lmao I remember a Jurassic Park game on PS1 had a secret ending if you 100% the game where Jeff Goldblum tells you that you oughta go outside and do something.
Call of duty world at war has an achevement called Go get some sun Worth 0 gamer score
Just imagine he’s telling you to go touch grass. That’s the adult equivalent of “go outside and play” for kids
@@MisterX867 Yo that was Chaos Island right?
I am stunned he didn't address the stealth levels. Those were TRAUMATIZING to me as a kid
When those white robots found me I literally cried and rushed to shut off my GameCube. Lmao
That was the hardest level for me.
There is a tune that a guard hums that, to this day, still haunts my thoughts and I can't get rid of it.
I’m more stunned that he ignored the tutorial with voice recordings of Bruce Campbell. They were so funny!
After a few tries and needing a break from frustration, I figured out the trick. The guards all moved in a pattern that would eventually leave an opening to quickly zip web from shadow to shadow. These segments were divided into little safe areas for you to pay attention to the newer, slightly harder pattern and do it again. I managed to get through the stages pretty quickly and only getting hung up on the very, very last section because it had the shortest window of time and you really needed to thread the needle at the end. Felt like I'd get caught with a pixel of my toe out of the shadows.
This game came out when beating a game as a kid was a super rewarding experience
I read your comment wrong and I thought you were saying beating a kid is super rewarding.
I remember beating the game unlocked playing as the Harry Osborn Goblin and messing around with a bunch of cheat codes.
OMG i read this really wrong! "This game came out when beating a kid was a super rewarding experience"
My bad.
This is a fact bro
This game came out during a time when cheat codes were fun.
Companies should bring back cheat codes for funsies. I miss those sort of cheats that were just goofy. Solid video as always, these Spider-Man videos give me life.
Best we can do is $1/code
Bethesda games still have cheat codes, you just hit tilde and become god.
Funnies?
@@SomeAssh0le I believe LEGO video games still use cheat codes
you can tell that video games were mainly developed to be fun.
Today, video games are mostly just a product to make money.
All these achievements are now only there to make money and keep the player in the game. At that time people voluntarily stuck to the game because it was so much fun.
Don't want to know how many times I've played through Vice City or how many hours I've spent there with chaos and cheats. I can tell you a lot more than with GTA5.
Treyarch (Then): Guess we're the Spider-Man company now!
Treyarch (Now): Which Call of Duty line are still making? Black Ops right, no Vanguard, people like that one right?
Even the cheat code topic made me sad... Such a bygone era is gaming, when that was commonplace.
Damn shame what’s happened to them. They haven’t even had a full 3 year development cycle on their COD games since Black Ops 3 in 2015. BO4 had its campaign cut & replaced with a Battle Royale mode due to an over ambitious concept, Black Ops: Cold War had to be rushed out in 18 months & be a PS5 & Xbox Series S|X launch title & Vanguard Zombies feels like it had even less time than that (combined with having to adjust to a new engine as Vanguard was made with the Modern Warfare (2019) engine instead of what Treyarch have been using & evolving since World at War) with how barebones it is.
Hopefully they’ll get at least 3 years to develop their next COD game (which given that Modern Warfare II (2022) is coming this year and the reports of Activision taking a year off next year, seems likely).
Any company working under Activision: "wait, it's all COD?"
Shame about Raven and Toys for Bob studios.
As a kid I used to "sell" cheat codes for this game for yugioh cards. *Sigh* what a wild west era of gaming we will never get back
Sounds fair. Especially if the internet was unaccessable.
It was true greatness!
Bought this at a flea market a few years ago with a crappy plug and play ir Spider-Man game, but I was shocked to learn upon looking info up at the time that they managed to put in an entire second campaign/playthrough around Harry using the goblin suit+glider, along with him having entirely separate control and abilities
Thats the collectors editon of spiderman 3 for ps3 lol
@@nicholasmadison7692 Spider-Man 1 had a playable Green Goblin that was Harry and he was voiced by Josh Keaton
I am so shocked that you use all these cool animations for this series. You have a spiderman themed intro for your spider videos... Like holy shit who does that? Matt you've been inspiring me since 2012, don't fucking stop.
It had some of the best themes in my opinion!
I'm pretty sure he hires artists/animators of various styles for various things in his videos
I remember unlocking the green goblin as a playable character, this was before internet so was shocked,
I had to go to school 10 mins after but remember day dreaming about what it could be all day until I got home
I love that you mentioned how good it looks, because i've been seeing it get trashed in some reviews that i watched recently for nostalgic purposes, where reviewers keep praising Spiderman 2 and saying this one looks like shit. And honestly it confused me, because i still remember how the graphics were the first thing i noticed when i popped the game in back then, especially jumping from Enter Electro to this one on the next gen.
The details like clothes at beginning, traffic below you while you're in the air, the textures, it was amazing
I'm in the same boat. I recently played through a modded version of Spider-Man 2 on the Gamecube emulator and used the character model/suit from the first game because it still looks that good compared to the sequel games
@@TheFeetCrusader Wait, so is that an actual model/mesh swap and not just a texture mod, cause I'd be interested in that. The first games model was pretty good.
@@coolster7092 It's a texture swap of the first game's suit put onto the the second game's model. It looks very clean in my opinion. Look up "Spider-Man 2 RE:Project" on youtube and you'll see some videos of the different suits and work done on the game.
Pretty neat stuff. 🙂
@@TheFeetCrusader Thanks mate, that sounds awesome. I'll check that out Asap.
The cheats were epic and hilarious. One I distinctly remember is "underthemask" which enables first-person mode. Also the OST is incredible
Same. To this day i remember the music that plays when you fight the Green Goblin at the end.
That bomb mission was the biggest example of why I hate time limits in video games.
It's not hard you know maybe you just suck at it while playing
@@Chadhall1988 well I played the game when I was young and on a higher difficulty so probably.
@@thelegendarygitarooman8833 not trying to be rude but just saying to get this done you have to speed boost the swing faster by holding down r2 on ps2 then you have no problem beating the level
Wow, those 3D sections in the GBA versions looked amazing!! The sprites of the webs flying in front of the camera?? So cool!
The one mostly remembered for the webs that stick to the sky!
I think that would be the PS1 with the mist at the bottom of the city.
Not the sky… Uncle Ben
It’s more like hopes and dreams that made the webs stick to the sky.
If memory serves, the game based on the second movie poked fun at this. During the web-swing tutorial for
“Spider-Man 2: The Video Game” Bruce Cambell remarks:
“You can’t swing from NOTHING…You’re not THAT good yet.”
I remember getting an XBox original years ago, and wanting to find a game to play on it. I ordered this game on Amazon, (since Spider-Man 2 was too pricy then), and I had a real blast. Played it a bunch, and loved it. Dated, yeah sure, but it was of it’s time, and I loved playing it. It’s a fun game! Also, that Goblin gameplay was great, loved how they made it work. Kinda wish more games worked in stuff like that.
Calling something "dated" is a detracting and superficial way of pointing out the time period it came from. Imagine talking about a game from 2002, just to call it "dated" 20 years later. You're essentially saying that it's too indicative of its time to be good, which is just silly, especially considering that everything in your comment contradicts that statement.
This game had a surprising level of care and effort put into it. It's not the greatest spider man game ever, but it had lots of fun extras. The fact you could replay the entire game as a Green Goblin, with his own unique voice, was a step they didn't need to take. Love it for that.
Oh gosh thank you so much for clearing up the Kraven stuff! My friend and I played the GameCube version of this game a lot as kids and we’d heard Kraven was in the game but were confused when we couldn’t find him anywhere. Never knew until watching this that he was Xbox exclusive! It’s probably been common knowledge out there for a while but I never knew until now. Now I can finally sleep again, I’ve had many a restless night all these years as I lie awake wondering where my psycho hunter was in my Spider-Man game! … Okay maybe not but it was still interesting to learn! Thanks Spider-Matt! You’ve done the world a service 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
The bomb mission was easy. It was the Oscorp stuff that was legitimately difficult and made me want to stop playing altogether.
I remember getting an "All Levels Unlock" cheat code to just skip Oscorp and play the rest of the game.
Funny how everyone remembers the stealth level over the bomb level.
The bomb level only gets really tight on the last difficulty, really. The Oscrop stuff was more annoying than difficult imo.
@@solblackguy I think everyone was able to beat the bomb level even if they didn't even knew how they did it (like me) but the Oscorp one was probably the reason a lot of us never finished the game as kids
@@TheDarknash I agree. Hell, I don't even remember the bomb level either until this video. Like you said, I probably beat it in 1-2 tries anyway. But Oscorp was a pain in the ass until you realize you're supposed to web zip from shadow to shadow.
I remember the Oscorp stealth levels scared the crap out of me the first time I played them. If the alarm is sounded, they send out these Super Soldier robots to gun you down. That means you gotta hide in the shadows until the alarm turns off. But I don't have a problem with them anymore, and I would often screw around on said levels.
I honestly wish Tobey Maguire channeled more of his performance in costume as Spider-Man in the video games, within his film portrayals. One thing I never really liked about Raimi Peter was that he wasn't as much of a quippy nuisance to his villains and lacked a lot of personality behind the mask in general, but here and in Spider-Man 2, he's basically exactly what I wanted, especially when he talks smack to Shocker
"Padded Pete!"
"Wait! I got it. T h e C u s h i o n."
Why would you want that? Lmao. Have you heard Tobey trying to tell jokes and his HiLaRioUs delivery in this game? 🤣🤣🤣
Idk to me I like when he was more serious in his fights because idk I just think it would be weird trying to fight doc ock and making jokes while saving aunt may it just makes the scene less tense
Tobey Maguire doesn't write scripts
The best thing this game did was model itself after the Neversoft PS1 Spider-Man game. Better sequel to that than Enter Electro, for certain.
Edit: Follow-up would probably be a more accurate term than sequel, come to think of it.
The "unlock everything" cheat being Arachnid was SO clever
the ps1 title used "EEL NATS" for that cheat iirc
@@SullySadface Ah, damn. It wasn't until I saw it spelled out just now that I figured out WHY they chose EEL NATS. But then, it was years since I last picked it up.
@@cjhedrick6418 why’s it eel nats then?
@@Gamingproductionv2 It's Stan Lee backwards.
As someone who's completed the bomb mission on the hardest difficulty many times, I can confidently say that it's not random at all. It's hard as hell though, that's for sure. On the superhero difficulty it requires nigh perfect timing, as well as knowing well the enemy placements and the best path from one bomb to another. You also have to consistenly web certain robots before they shoot, because their damage is insane and they can obliterate you in a couple of seconds. Really hated this mission while I was still learning the ins and outs and struggling with it, but now it's my personal highlight of the game. On the hardest difficulty the mission is such an adrenaline rush that there is nothing quite like it in any other Spider-Man game, a really unique and intense skillcheck that could only exist in a Spidey game.
Really liked the GBA version as well, although the second Kraven boss fight is a bitch.
I remember when I first played the green goblin campaign I thought "HA!!! This damn robots will see!!" But no, it still was a pain even with the green goblin
This was the mission that made me give up on trying to beat the game on the hardest difficulty.
This game takes me back man. This and PS1 Spider-Man were the ones I played the most. I even remember trying to do Green Goblin runs of this game, he was busted.
What no talk about the big controversy of this game? Being able to have mj and mj kiss with the cheat code.
This game, the PS1 Spiderman games, and the Spiderman 2 game were some of my favourites as a kid. So nostalgic
_"...Or be forced to watch Morbius!"_
You monster!
Honestly the most fun cool part was you could eventually play the whole game as the Green Goblin. Had that been done now we all know that the content would have been $$$$ dlc.
This was my first experience, at least that I can remember, with Spiderman. Considering I'm an actual pro wrestler now who takes a ton of inspiration from The Wall Crawler, this game basically put me on a path I never really thought about until I saw this video.
Oh the movie tie-in, not sequel to the Ps1 games. Neat, always had fun with this one and that Harry Osborn mode was infinitely superior to the "New Goblin" we eventually got
Bro, Matt... you have NO IDEA how long I've been looking for Die By The Sword. I remember playing an early 3D knight game in the 90's that my computer barely ran and I've been trying to find it for over 20 years. THANK YOU!!!!!
Oh god I played this so much as a kid. this was one of my favorites on the PS2!
Also didn't know about Goblin mode! looked like an absolute blast!
One other thing to note is the cheat where you unlock the Mary Jane skin. It’s only available in the black label version of the game and not the Greatest Hits re-release. My guess is that it was removed because of the ending cutscene where, if you equip that skin, makes it look like Mary Jane was making out with herself.
I loved this game as a kid. I had the PC version and I played it A LOT.
The Green Goblin was so fun to play as, also you were able to use the cheat to unlock all levels, load up the final cutscene on the hardest difficulty (this unlocks Goblin)
I first played this game in 2004 when I was 4 and I remember never being able to get past the mission when u go inside the building lol. My cousin helped me get past the game but it was a fun experience, I was obsessed with the movies Spider-man 1 and 2 and this was the first game I chose to go with my ps2. Once I got Spider-man 2 I remember being I'm shock about the open world and swinging, I still replay it every year it's probably my favorite game of all time. I just love good superhero games like Hulk Ultimate Destruction, Spider-man 1,2, web of shadows, shattered dimensions, Ultimate Spider-man, batman arkham games, X-men Origins Wolverine and so many more. I keep my 360 and ps2 hooked up to always be able to play these classics
It's crazy how much games from your childhood are engrained in your memory. I haven't seen this game in probably 18 years but still remember it so vividly.
One of my "favorite" memories of this game was using the cheat code to play as Mary Jane and I skipped levels I didn't like playing. After I beat the Green Goblin, I watched as the Mary Jane I was playing as made out with the NPC Mary Jane. It was the first time I've ever seen something like that and it's still funny to me how Treyarch didn't think of the consequences when they made the cheats
Man I really love this game. My ps2 copy is so old that it still has the two girls one bridge oversight. Scorpion's story being cut makes a lot of sense. Even as a kid I thought something was missing. They prop him up only for him to disappear after 1 level leaving no closure. I'm surprised you didn't mention the lab levels. Those were so intense as a kid.
Sometimes I think Die By the Sword doesn't actually exist, and was just a fever dream I had...... and then sometimes it's mentioned in a Spider-Man review, naturally.
Man seeing that 2snacks opening with the round heads brings me back.
I've played this game, like a lot. Flying around with the Green goblin and his glider and throwing pumpkin bombs was amazing
A couple of fun facts:
1) All the cheat codes were in the official movie poster where they would normally print the movie credits.
2) Dwight Schultz, the voice actor for the Vulture in this game reprised his role for the 2018 game
What I remember the most is that giant robot mission. I use to think that was so dang cool I replayed it many times just to see it. The size of it was so neat to me. Plus the “stealth” section in Oz Corp is kind of what got me into stealth in the first place. Overall a solid game but nothing crazy. Loved it though
I don't even remember the giant robot
@@StudioInkblot I had to re look it up, it’s Oz Corps ultimate weapon. It’s right before you go into the office to steal paperwork from an office. That’s a crap explanation but that’s the best I got lol
@@HELLO1110able It's fine, you sneak in the office, then you go to the lab, then BAM, gian robot, there's really no other explanation.
You could say that in this game, Green Goblin is the Virgil to Spider-Man's Dante.
I’m glad you not only talked about this Game but also the GBA version as well. I love the PS1 Spider-Man Games more though since I played those when they came out. But man to go back 20 Years when I was 15 all over again playing this Game just brings back so many memories. Especially playing as Goblin. Never realized the controls were the same as the PS1 Titles, though I knew I had seen them before 🤣
Hello Matt, it is me, a future person. Sony's Kraven the Hunter was great, it made a Kravillion dollars, and my favorite part was when the camera panned to Kraven's face and he said "It's Kravin time!" and started Kraving on people.
I rented this for a holiday weekend and had a blast. I still fondly remember it, despite the frustrating stealth levels. The only thing that sucked about it is that it was really short to the point I beat it as Spider-Man and the Goblin while still having time to screw around with cheat codes, all within a three day weekend. Probably would've been even better with more development time, a bigger budget and more free reign to do a different story that existed within the Raimi universe. Would've been cool to see what they could come up with, like maybe Kingpin as a major villain or something.
Noticed my Hobgoblin video (and mod) at 11:17! Love the channel, Keep up the good work!
This game was so much fun back in the day. It was a proper evolution from the previous PS Spider-Man games, which those I thoroughly enjoyed, before Spider-Man 2 completely changed the formula for future Spider-Man games. It holds up really even today and reminds me of a simpler time in gaming.....
Sneaking through Oscorp and then having to escape were probably the hardest things I've ever had to do in games.
Technically, this was Spider-Man 3. I mean it's techincally (mechanically?) a successor to Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.
I have a vague memory of I think the actual Spider-Man 3 game having a reference to Enter Electro as well I think.
More mechanically since this was more in line with the movie's story.
It's funny that you release this on this week in particular. I was just reminiscing about this game earlier this week. In particular, how absolutely ballin' some of the movie tie-in game's music tracks are, like the Green Goblin's theme. I have some fond memories of this game and even though the swinging is way out classed by Spider-Man 2, I think the level design and storytelling were pretty good, especially for the time.
I remember if you had the original release of this game (which I do have) you could type in a code that lets you be Mary Jane only she was clearly taller to match Spider-Man's height and at the end of the game in this mode Mary Jane makes out with herself. I assume Activision realized their mistake because upon the game's Greatest Hits release they altered it to where you couldn't be Mary Jane but just a random reporter lady and I think the cutscene just shows Spider-Man kissing MJ in that version.
I'm pretty sure this was the 1st videogame I sunk alot of my childhood into that wasnt my older brothers Super Mario World cart. All the unlockable costumes and cheats ruled. I was so glad that Ultimate Spiderman brought that spirit back with all the costumes and Venom mode, because that lack of extras really dragged the Spiderman 2 tie-in game down.
Who else vividly remembers playing this game as a kid,
Attempting to go further than the game let you,
trying to go onto the ground. Lol
That Oscorp level gave me PTSD as a kid. Never have I felt like a failure in life and scared of robots at the same time.
I've discovered you recently, and as a big spider-fan I have to admit: your intro is AMAZING, Matt!!
The one before the Spider-Man game that would change everything.
John de Lancie was attached to this at some point? Having Q and Discord as Norman Osborn would be very interesting.
It Blew my mind when I learned that you could play the game as Green Goblin and as someone who used the cheats i was like "oh it'll be like the other cheats where its just a skin like how Shocker was just a skin" and then you play as Goblin w/ Glider and has his own set of moves My 9yr old MIND WAS BLOWN AWAY.
In another reality someone figured out how to mod in a VS mode for the game where you could play as Goblin Vs Spider or any of the other villains
This game will always hold a special place in my heart, it just has so much going on that works.
Sadly what doesnt work is turning around and half the combat. Turning is an animation on its own if you turn too far which has got me killed, and the fights with the foes who can break your combos or just grab you outright are a chore to deal with. Theres no real defense options so you gotta jump and pray
Timetraveler from the future here. I'm pissed Doc Ock got the full frontal nudity and Kraven didn't.
I remember playing as green goblin in this Spider-Man game it was so cool to be able to play as the villian
The intro to this alone was enough for me to subscribe, keep up the content💯
bro, they made limited webbing before sam raimi decided peter will have organic webbing...
I remember seeing that alt goblin costume and was never able to find any thing backing it up I thought I imagined the whole thing
I always replayed the missions using Harry’s Green Goblin. Things became so much easier with him 😂.
You forgot to mention 2 things:
One, there was a tutorial and a some minigames where the narrator is Bruce Campbell, being his usual self of course.
And one of the cheats made you into Mary Jane, which if you beat the game with, has her making out with herself on the bridge. This was reportedly removed in later copies of the game
Since they didnt have access to the movie, maybe they were like, “I would THINK Green Gobs would plant bombs in places and Spidey has to defuse em.” So they made that mission with that assumption?
The intro just made me think of something very silly: spiderman but wears a different mask for each expression.
i didnt remember that bomb level being so hard. until i remember i always played this game on easy mode as a kid
I went back at your old video and was thinking if you were going to do updates. I'm glad you did
"the emerald elf" still call goblin that to this day referencing the spectacular Spider-Man, josh Keaton voicing Harry here is hilarious. Goblin voiced by spiderman lmao
The fact you didn’t talk about the missions “Breaking and Entering” and “Chemical Plant” being horrifying is a surprise.
Man, I still play this game from time to time, another highlight for me personally was the inclusion of the grooviest man himself as a narrator in these games.
Awesome review Matt.
I remember playing Spiderman on PS2 having trouble with a stealth mission going through vents and such and also that fight on the bridge, but thats basically all i remember from this game
"Fuck you Spider-Man!"
-The Green Hulk
I remember when Walmart had this game on their game system kiosk, I learned how to unlock Green Goblin and used that in their kiosk. All the other kids around were losing their s**t that I was playing as Green Goblin lol
I feel Norman looks more like future George Stacy Denis Leary than Willem Dafoe.
Also I recall the game initially had MJ has an unlockable skin but it was removed in subsequent copies due to the ending where Spidey kisses MJ, so in turn MJ would be kissing herself. Different times, man.
I completely forgot about Die By The Sword. Thank you for bringing back that part of my childhood
I remember playing this it was so awesome! The stealth levels were disturbing to me as a young lad but beating the game older is just awkward good memories fighting green Goblin kicked my butt so many times
Ya ain’t slick with that Fesh Pince reference, McMuscles. “Numbers, numbers, numbers,” indeed.
You forgot to mention one big thing
Treyarch didnt JUST port spider-man to the sega dreamcast
they also ported it to Windows 2000, Windows ME, and the OS i grew up on and what got me to play the game and fall in love with marvel back in 2004: WIndows XP
I always watch your "wha happens" but never seen these spiderman videos. Been binging these all day😂 these are awesome 👌
This makes me wonder what it would be like if Tom Holland’s Spider-Man movies came out 20 years ago when every super hero movie got a PS2/Xbox/GameCube/GBA licensed game
I've watched so many of these, and today was the first time I noticed Matt pulls his spider mask over a spidermask in the intro lmao
"Little baby Matt" dude we were both 18 when that movie came out so....
Fair, yeah. Little babies.
I played this one a lot with a friend when it came out, but I never owned it until many years later. To this day I'm still stuck on that damn bomb mission.
On a related note, Spiderman 1&2 for the PS1 were such amazing games.
Who else remembers the Kelloggs demo? The demo was just the original spider man ps1 pc port up to the rhino battle with a movie costume reskin. That was pretty cool to get a game with your cereal
I remember as a kid being blown away at how if spiderman 2 is on the memory card spiderman is way buffer on this game than if you played it and it's not.
the video game version of Norman is from an alternative reality where Denis Leary played Norman Osborne instead of Captain Stacey 10 years later.
What?
@@MattMcMuscles you heard me
That game made Spinneret a thing before the comics did. Yes, Mary Jane was a Spider-Person in the comics, but that was after this game...right?
Wow this really brings back a flood of memories!
The only memory I have of this game is having a dream one time that you could unlock a "Spider-Woman" by jumping off the tallest building in the game, spinning on the way down, and then jumping into the water.
Other than that, all I can say is that I have played it before.
Rogue Treyarch Devs single handedly adding a mode at the 11th hour that almost gets cut but ends up defining the game's legacy. Tale as old as time...
As much as I love Sam Raimi's work, he makes some really weird ass "artistic decisions" sometimes.
@@solblackguy yeah I was confused about that too, at least when the other rogue Treyarch Dev added Zombies mode to Call of Duty: World at War the higher ups at Activision just said "We can't give you any more resources or manpower due to the crunch but if you can get it done by the ship date we'll include it" so this is a weird case where Activision is more lenient and creator friendly than Sam Raimi
@@kapkant6197 probably because it was a movie tie-in game. I said before the game itself is great at the downside of being short and bound to the confines of the movie's story. Still, it would've been a good foundation for a franchise within the Raimi universe.
I thought for sure when you mentioned one level being terrible, you were going to mention the Oscorp secret weapon level, not too bad on easy difficulty but practically unplayable on the hard difficulty!
Man, I played this game like it was a second religion back in 2002. I played it on both my PS2 and my Xbox. My buddy had the PS2 version so I tried his then bought it for Xbox a couple weeks later. It was a lot of fun at the time. I played the whole game as the ALex Ross version most of the time. Well, after the first run through anyway. Such a cool design. It was easy to go from the Dreamcast Spider-Man controls to this game, which I liked a lot. I know that game was on PS2 first, but I never played it there. Only on Dreamcast.
And, I have to say, them putting Spider-Man in THPS 2 is why I tried that game the first time and it led to years and years of me loving skating games. I never skated so i didn't think I'd enjoy those games, but I loved Spider-Man so I bought a copy of THPS2 (also on Dreamcast) and really really fell in love with that genre. Probably never would have played SSX if it weren't for that too. Good stuff.
Oh man! The PS2 version of this was the first video game I ever played, but we ended up trading it in for sonic heroes because it was so hard that even my older brothers couldn't get past the second level. Good times.
Always a sign of a good Saturday when a new Spider-Matt video drops.