Comparing Every Version of Spider-Man 2 The Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2023
- In this video, we're comparing every version of 2004's Spider-Man 2 The Movie Game released for PS2, XBOX, GameCube, PC, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS and Nokia N-GAGE
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The PS2 version brings back so many great memories.
Even if I wasn't focused on the missions, I could spend hours just getting lost exploring New York and swinging around, trying new tricks, and seeing how fast I could reach one end of the city.
Yeah the ps2 version was so fun, New York felt vast and interesting swing around through
yeah i wasnnever smart enough to figure out how to play the game. when i ran into crooks, i'd just get killed.
Til this day, I will dedust my ps2 and play it every now and then (kudos for sony that ps2 works.. my psp from 2009 still works and my ps3 works too : D). Recently I played spiderman on pc (the new ps4 game) and it was great but I was missing that getting faster on the web (r2 press) that ps2 has. The ps2 version really had it perfect, they try to replicate it and they still only mostly succed to do it : )
I had it on GameCube and I don't think there were much change between PS2 and GC.
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Were there?
Pizza Time!
Especially that theme
You're late.
I’m not paying for those
To that I say 4:00 - that will leave a mark... Talk about ruining the moment.
Hey...Spiderman just stole that guys pizzas!!!!!
The PSP version was beyond amazing, even if it wasn't as great as the PS2 version, having a full 3d spiderman game on a portable console was mind blowing
You are surprising as if handhelds weren't supposed to run 3D games
they def went overboard with the open world shit in the psp tho. literally a port of spiderman 1 would be better to play
Having played it, I agree. Though I never got past the Mysterio level
@@rhythmkhandelwal2940 dude it was 2004, before that Gameboys were 99.9% 2d, a few experiments of 3d were done but they were bad, PSP was the first real full 3d games on the go
@rhythmkhandelwal2940 no that's not really what he means you see before you probably never made you see portable consoles didn't really have the power of controls to play 3D games companies didn't know how to make it work until the PSP came out.
I was unfortunate enough to have the PC version as my childhood game. The worst thing was, that the demo disc had promo pics from the PS2 version! I was so confused back then!!!
Again, another great video, thank you Flandrew!!!
yea man, i thought i was playing a demo version(cuz i didn't know it was the full version and i had mostly pirated games in india in old days you could buy cds for 40rs oof)
I had full version if pc. Man this version was something else
Same B. My dad got me that shit. I realise he’s not supposed to know, but that shit traumatised me as a kid
yeah same here, it really is a shame we didnt have the same game :(
I had first PC then PS2. What an upgrade! That PC game was so bad
Bro I remember that Mysterio health bar overcharge joke every single time I have to fight a boss with multiple health bars. Iconic
Spider-Man 2 in the PS2 is one of my most memorable games for me as a kid. The web swinging is phenomenal, and it’s because of that Insomniac carried on the legacy. Also I never forget the pizza delivery side missions.
Agreed i remember my brother getting it for the original xbox and being absolutely stunned by the fact it was open world, because the first game was still fresh on my mind and i remember not being able to go to street level, total game changer for superhero games
The PC version of Spider-Man 2 literally made me cry as a child. I had played the Xbox port at the cinema, and begged my Dad for it, and one day he came home with the PC port, and when I realised it was a completely different game, and how terrible it was, I broke down into tears. Luckily he proceeded to sell the PC game on eBay, and bought me the PS2 Game.
W dad
dad FTW .W dad
That's a W dad you got
I have finished the PC version of SM2 (2004) 4 times. Yeah, I liked it.
Jump kicking enemies in the head was solid.
And that "Tears of the Kingdom" level is still VERY visually good, and prolly my favourite.
Also, it was the gameboy advance version of either this or SM1 that basically cemented Left and Right in my memory as a kid. L to web swing and R to shoot webs (if I remember correctly).
i had a blast playing this one too! there are many reasons as a kid that made me enjoy it but it used to knock my socks off back in the day
This was pure nostalgia for me back in the day, i remember beating puma, doc oc, myterio. The controls were annoying but I got used to them.
It's a terrible game i must admit, but I just can't not love it because I played it so much as a kid lmao. I guess it's just the nostalgia.
Oh hell yeah. Not just one of the best movie licensed games, but one of the greatest games ever made. The feeling of swinging around New York just can't be beat.
I'm so happy you covered these games! Aside to Harry Potter and the chamber of Secrets on PS2, Spider-Man 2 on the GC was my childhood! Very nice to hear you talking about it!
This is still my favorite free roam Spider-Man game. Although Tobey looks so damn weird in the pre-rendered cutscenes.
I played this A LOT on the GameCube. I spent a lot of time doing the races and looking for tokens. I also used it to keep my hands busy while listening to sports on internet radio.
I liked the parts with Mysterio and Black Cat. They reminded me of the 90s Saturday Morning cartoon.
Loved the PC version as a kid. Some of my fondest, warmest memories were back then
Same it was good but ps2 version set the bar to high
I know what you mean I get overwhelming nostalgia every time I see footage from the PC version. My brother and I used to have a blast taking turns on our Dell computer. Good, simpler times.
@@rebar_radar yeah man. The game had such a warm atmosphere as well
I had the GBA game and absolutely adored it, but I don't know if I lost left it with my cousin, or if I just left it behind while visiting family oversees but i ended up without it. So much nostalgia
I click on this because I thought the PC version would just be a better graphic version.
Now I know I didn’t miss out on much. I played the PS2 version on my PS3 for years.
Lmao i remember playing the PC version, years back. Probably one of the first spiderman titles I've ever played, the only thing i liked about this game was the Mysterio segment, it was fun but the game got boring real quick, safe to say you're much better off playing the PS2 version
Well this unlocked a repressed memory...
My friends with consoles had spiderman 2 the game and i played a ton of it when i was over at their houses, I loved it soo much that i begged my parents for the game for xmas on my pc...
Xmas came and i got spiderman 2 the movie... And i was so sad realizing that its not the same game i played before...
I played this game so much that when i was younger, i would at least once a month or so just sit and play the console version from start to finish in one sitting. It would take about 8 hrs total after i learned all the ins and outs. And i loved every minute if it.
*(**13:00**)* _Spider-Man 2,_ featuring Jennifer Aniston as Mary Jane.
More like MJs wine aunt.
Played the Gamecube version at the beginning of 2022 after watching No Way Home in Cinemas. And yeah it's pretty great swinging around New York city. But parts of it can be pretty difficult, especially with the Acrobat challenges, the later Mary Jane/Daily Bugle and Pizza Delivery challenges due to the extremly Strict Time Limits, trying to find all the location tokens and doing the Boat Rescue challenges to fufill the achievement was a pain as it was one of the rarest citizen challenges to come up as you had to constantly talk to people hoping it would come up. Also you cannot fall into the water ever as you will automatically fail and you had to talk to people to get that challenge again.
One thing I remember dearly about the PS2 version is that it was one of the fastest loading games of it’s era. I remember counting no more than 30 seconds between the PlayStation 2 intro and the map fully loaded with Spidey just waiting for a good ol’ swing. A real gem of that time.
Games that really make you feel like Spider-Man
Im so happy your reviewing all these games
2:38 Glad I'm not the only one who thought of him as a dolphin there... lol
The console version was one of the best Spiderman games every made, let alone best games ever made in my opinion. The pizza delivery minigame was great and there were so many hidden collectables to find. Also these games were the only capacity in which I knew anything about Bruce Campbell until a year or so ago when I finally watched all the Evil Dead stuff which made those all that much better 😅 I remember I had a rental copy of the PS2 version before I actually owned the game and I got all the way to the Mysterio, Statue of Liberty part but had a bit of trouble and couldn't progress before I had to return the game. Once I owned the game I ended up beating it no problem. I recently started replaying the game on my original Xbox and it's still an amazing game!
This game was my childhood!!
It's got style at the time
I remember my cousin having this on PC. I just remember wondering why am I web slinging of these glowing spots 😂.
This brings back so many memories. I had this game for Xbox. I got stuck at the Mysterio Statue of Liberty level for so long 😩
Dude i remember just swinging there was hard
These uploads are the brightening spot of my day :)
Still one of the best movie tie in games
As one of the gamers who played PC version back in the days, because I didn't had internet back then and had no idea that there is other consoles existing, outside of NES and Sega Mega Drive, I will say that I liked PC version. Sure, it is not what you expected but still, for a 13 years old me back then, it was fun. It is only later, when I found out about other consoles and games, and about PS2 version of Spider-Man 2 game. But at that point, I had already played Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 3 and Friend or Foe. But you know what? Those are not my only Spider-Man games that I have been played. Cause, before getting PC, I played tons of Spider-Man games on 8 and 16 bit consoles. Like, Spider-Man Return of Sinister Six on NES, Spider-Man vs The Kingpin and Spider-Man and Venom Maximum Carnage on Sega Mega Drive. And they were fun. Sure, at this point I have played every single big Spider-Man game, except still that PS2 version of Spider-Man 2, but still, I have soft spot for classics. Returning to PC version of Spider-Man 2, I would say that I still like it. It is not as bad as everyone makes it to be. It's like a first movie game but a little changed and improved, in comparison to the first game.
Definitely felt like heaven getting my hands on the gba version at 12yo. I saw ur spiderman 1 analyses and I played the gameboy ver of that too but after playing sm2 which was still the best because it was literally just more spiderman for my spidey brain. My first full console spidey was ultimate and life only got better. Had ultimate for the ds too but i think i was getting spoiled at that point cuz i only remember wanting to keep playing that rather than what I actually played haha. Anyway, outside of mechanics and tight controls, the console/gameboy sm2 character designs look amazing to me and I applaud and bless the devs who are responsible.
Time to enjoy starting my day with watching Flandrew's newest video!
"Stereotypical Italian music plays in the background" Excuse me sir that is the NATIONAL PIZZA ANTHEM OF NEW YORK CITY
Spiderman 2 is one of the all time video game titles:
Enter Electro, Sinister Six, The Movie, Insomniac's. Not to mention Amazing Spiderman 2 which was just Spiderman 2 in North America, and also the movie tie-in Amazing Spiderman 2
I miss when the NPC's would shout "ASSHOLE" as you swung by
My cousin first got this game and I eventually got it on Gamecube. I spent so many hours just climbing the highest building and diving off. going splat.
I played so much of it on my PS2 at the time. I was like 8 years old or something like it. This video deserves a million views.
And just saying, by the title I was hoping for a PS2 vs Xbox vs GameCube part haha.
Great, great video.
it's so frustrating that there's no way to play the console version on modern consoles or pc. If you're looking for a spider-man 2 experience on pc your best bet is either emulating the gamecube version or playing the pc version of ultimate spider-man which is amazing if you can get it.
He doesn't swing from clouds in the old games. That's Uncle Ben holding those webs lol
I played the PS2 and the GameCube of Spider-Man 2.
i have no idea what do write, so thank you for the video. was a great ride in my past where i spend every second on th ps2 version
I was waiting for this one! This game is my whole childhood
I’ve started playing this game again on my Original Xbox and I’m having a blast. You’d be surprised how good it actually looks with a good HDMI adapter on modern tv compared to PS2 version
Great video. Looking forward to the 3rd one. I never played the 3rd game on consoles.
"These people don't care if I beat up a corpse."
Would you? If I saw someone with super strength and powers beat someone up, I'mma mind my own business. What do you want me to do? I step in and that's just 1 more person getting beatin.
Honestly, even though it is older and a bit jankier, I honestly like it a lot better than the PS4 game. The PS4 villains are way too easy and repetitive (literally every fight except Shocker is "dodge > web > attack, there's almost no meaningful variety", and though not as fluid I like the web swinging here much better because getting really good with it feels amazing. Too much of PS4's feels like auto-pilot. The PS4 game is definitely an impressive and fantastic game, but my preferences always leaned towards the PS2 classic because I always enjoy going back to play that more than I do the PS4 one.
From what I know of PS4 Spider-Man is that a lot of the movement seems to boil down to "hold R2 to move awesomely".
I do prefer it when there's more skill in becoming really good at the movement. I remember eventually being able to move around well without ever using the wall crawl or web.
Looking forward to the Spider-Man 3 one. Always found that game quite underrated personally.
I never owned this game, but I vividly remember playing it at a demo at an EBGames and being absolutely awestruck by the world and web slinging
When i first downloaded the PC version ten years ago, thinking it was the same as the PS2 made me more heartbroken than my ex.
Those years when a PC version of a tie-in game was either a completely different game, or it ported the PS2/Wii versions instead of the PS3/X360 versions,
Mysterio in Spider-Man 2 the game is straight up one of his best depictions.
ps2 was one of my favourite childhood games, countless hours just swinging around new york and beating up criminals
I loved playing this game. I finished it so many times and still love it.
Played it on Ps2 , GBA , & DS , & PSP . One of thee best nostalgic games of my childhood.
YES you did Spiderman 2, now I'm gonna wait for you to do Spiderman 3 😛
Keep up the good work Flandrew, i love all your content
This game was peak Spider-Man imo. I loved how expansive New York felt and swinging around was a lot of fun
Man, PC ports of console games have come a long way.
I played the PC version when I was a kid, and even not knowing anything about the other versions i could tell something was off. Same for RE4 and SpongeBob battle for bikini bottom.
That pizza music was on point for the delivery mission. Especially when it started to speed up.
Spider-Man 2 was a moment ahaha, so many memories from that game. Though I’ll be taking “my balloon!” with me to my grave and I didn’t agree to that when I got the game. There’s always something in this town…
The part of this game I remember most by far are the Mysterio quests.
I stil remember my first time on the PS2, climbing and swinging my way to the highest towers and just looking down, little kid me jaw dropped gaping in awe at just how large the scale was. It was the first time a video game ever made me feel like setting down the controller and just watching the world turn
Can't believe you left out the boat people. I always hated when they popped up cause I had no idea how to save them.
I remember renting this game from block buster, and having to speed running to the final level before returning it, because I got sidetracked with everything else
The only problem I had with this game was that no matter what I did my Gamecube saves would eventually become corrupted.
I dont know if this was a known issue, but it meant that I never got too far, and never got to finish the game.
The PS2 version is legendary. It made me rage quit a lot and I loved it.
The kid drawing spider-man finds in one of his backpacks in the ps4 game is a reference to this game. Spider-Man retrieved a kid’s balloon so the kid thanked him with a drawing
You talk about rage quitting the Statue of Liberty segment… I paused it and left it a few hours cos it was doing my head in. I came back and the health bar had screen burned onto my dads new plasma screen 😬😬
gamecube always felt so nice with the shoulder buttons I would spend hours randomly swinging around new york
I used to play a Spiderman game on the Nintendo DS I forgot which one but I loved that game
I remember picking up the PC version when I was a kid - I was so excited, since all the commercials made it look so cool.
You can imagine my disappointment when I booted it up. At least the Mysterio segment looked cool.
On the PS2 version i always used the pile drive grapple to finish battles on buildings rooftops.
“That totally worked last time!”
Some other version difference episode ideas:
Spider-man 3
Lego Rock Raiders (Console vs PC)
SimCity 2000 or SimCity 64 (N64, N64 DD - JP, PlayStation, SNES, and GBA.
Sim Theme Park (PC, Mac OS, PlayStation, and PS2)
Sonic Colors (Wii vs DS)
Sonic Unleashed (Wii vs "Other" Game Consoles)
Rayman 1 (Atari Jaguar, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, DSi, iOS, and Android)--Especially those stage transition/wipe screens.
Fun tidbit Rayman as a series has been on 29 platforms (including PlayStation Classic).
11:31 I'm glad that Spiderman 3 on PSP fixed this problem 3 years later.
I played console version on original XBox and it was awesome, liked this game quite a lot. Although I vividly remember that it was very hard for me at times, mostly Misterio levels and some other boss fights. After that, PC version was a very big letdown. I did finish it, but it is nowhere near that good.
Top three games based on movies:
1. Spiderman 2
2. Ghostbusters The Videogame
3. Goldeneye
"The women in peter's life have some incredible grip strength"
So are we not doing phrasing anymore?
Oh god the balloons! You have reignited my anger for those darn balloons!
PS2 Mysterio remains to be one of my favourite boss fights of all time
But...Spider-Man 2 doesn't come until October.
I know this is a joke lol
This joke is brilliant but lazy
You have to admit though that the surreal floating pieces of city in the Mysterio section of the PC version were cool though
Back then I got my hands on the PC version of the game, not having any idea that it was different from the console one. I ended up spending a good time wondering why people were so crazy about the game until I finally got to play the PS2 version. The PC version is not only notably short and with a smaller map, but you don't even get to do free roaming. You have to unlock parts of the map as you play along and every time there's a boss battle you get a screen prompt before showing you exactly how to beat the boss. It literally is a game for little kids.
Now the console version was a complete game changer. Open world games weren't as ubiquitous as they are now, let alone superhero ones, and nearly every new Spider-Man game after that one took the blueprint from this one. People praise Insomniac's game a lot, but really all that game does is take what the previous ones did and make it look nicer. Everything started here.
right on time, thinking on buying this game for gba
Spidey 2 is a tech demo. There, I said it. Black Cat is cute, though
i do remember the balloons... damn kids should keep a tighter grip
If I remember correctly, Spider-Man 4 was supposed to include a very similar Mysterio scene in the grocery store with Bruce Campbell playing him. Makes me wish that we got Spider-Man 4 :-(
Back then the game was a fun experience when it comes to Spiderman 2 2004 game
I used to think that spiders spun webs next to buildings so that spidey could swing when I was a kid thanks to Spider-Man 2.
I got this game for my PS2 a year ago because I played it as a child. And thought the side stuff is hard, repetitive and not worth the effort nothing beats webbing criminals, spinning around and hitting their friends with them in like 50km and then seeing how long they fly and hard how hard they hit the ground. Throwing criminals off rooftops and into the river is also hilarious
It's interesting Spiderman 3 PSP looked at 2&3 console more. I remember bits and pieces of 1-3 console versions (PS2 for 1&2, PS3 for 3). I struggled with the goon pit level. Don't have it anymore but did get Spiderman 1 movie game again and beat it
I remember the pizza music/level, remember the city, hero points and other bits besides having seen a let's play of it and the things I missed.
I didn't like Spiderman PS4 the outposts, the generic was about it. Sunset Overdrive did a good job not being generic. Other open worlds can be good but nope. There is a reason I only liked the radar and laser above and below side missions, task master missions and the doc Oct lab puzzles. That's it I found the writing fine, I found the character swapping not a bad thing but they didn't add much the stealth is fine but eh the game wants to be so cinematic but I find it boring like every Sony first party now. The open world formula I hate is in Spiderman PS4, it is in Infamous Second Son as well but for some reason the abilities and writing is better. The things you do in it are more exciting of graffi, of hidden cameras and more. They do get boring to clear everything out it's boring as ever from that perspective compared to Sunset Overdrive or Gravity Rush or just like any open world 5 minutes to get to everything when I'd play a linear game for its obstacle course level design or a map I select from like Driver Renegade then do them.
Rift Apart is garbage and too safe too so Insomniac hasn't made a good game since Sunset Overdrive, if not open world then I'd say Ratchet Nexus or Crack in Time. Resistance 3 I guess. Fuse was a fine game but it's not the most ideal game. The PS3 experimental Ratchet games were fine, All 4 One was Fuse but more boring and Full Frontal Assault/QForce was a fair tower defence game.
The handheld versions are always interesting. Surprised with the Ngage version I know many were GBA/PS1 but surprised they updated the graphics it looks pretty fair for the time even if level design and content wise is lazy not surprised due to it being a platform most people didn't have/wasn't supported long.
PSP yeah it's pretty cheap too. Not the best it may be impressive but also yeah odd character models and cheap effort to make it the 1st game and somewhat tie it to the second. But has to have the 2 in the name. But they didn't want to release the first game on the system. Very stupid.
DS seems alright.
Surprised no J2ME or Java phone version hmm.
Best movie licensed game
GBA spidey got some cakes in that thumbnail
I haven't actually tried Spiderman 2 in a while, does anyone know if they fixed the bug on PCSX2 where the game would only work while rendering via software mode?
Let‘s see how many people here have crawled up the walls of the Empire State Building and jumped down from it in the PlayStation 2 version?
I often tried to shoot a web as close to the ground as I could before hitting the streets!
Many mechanics from PS2 Spider-Man 2 also appeared in comic-style Ultimate Spider-Man
great video!
i would argue that this game's swinging mechanics are better than the 2018 game's version for a few reasons, the most glaring one is that you can swing low enough to the ground in which spider-man will run across the ground whereas in the ps4 version, the game will hold your hand, and spidey will float for a few seconds before shooting out a line, which feels pretty unsatisfying. Secondly, you can charge your jump, which will give you a manual feel as you control how far spidey will jump, as opposed to one button x button press in the ps4 version
Also real combat instead of gadgets. You can use actual combos and a lot more interactive with the environment
LMAO at the PS2 game having better swinging.
And the charged jump mechanic sucked. It was awkward and unfun. There is a reason later Spider-Man games did away with it.
Finally!!! Pizza Time 🎉🎉
I'll admit. I enjoyed playing the PC version.
"MY BALLOOOHOOOOON"
*webs it to pop it*
"Good riddance 😡"
Just starting playing the gamecube version on dolphin with and xbox controller it lives up well