Ultimate Spiderman

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• Experience a living comic-book illustrated with 3D Comic Inking Technology that literally brings the comic to life
• Massive, free-roaming environments deliver a deep adventure with a variety of challenging missions
• Two distinct combat systems allow players to defeat enemies differently, using Spider-Man's fluid & acrobatic moves or Venom's brute force

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AS20D2
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 22, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,561 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2 | Edition: Limited

From the Manufacturer

Play both sides as Ultimate Spider-Man allows players to take on the role of super-hero Spider-Man and super-villain Venom in the most revolutionary Spider-Man experience ever! Penned and illustrated by famed comic-book creators Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, the game picks up right where the story left off. Dive into an immersive adventure as you experience a living comic book illustrated with 3D Comic Inking Technology that literally brings the comic to life in every action-packed frame.

The game's expanded, free-roaming environments deliver a deep adventure with a variety of challenging missions, diverse game play, and an improved combat system that allows players to face off against the largest number of characters from the Spider-Man universe ever assembled in one video game.

Features:

• Play as Spider-Man and Venom in an original storyline.
• For the first time in a Spider-Man game, gamers get to play both sides as they triumph over evil as Spider-Man and assume the role of the super-villain Venom, rampaging through Manhattan as they destroy everything in their path.
• The two distinct combat systems allow players to defeat enemies differently, using Spider-Man's fluid, acrobatic moves or Venom's brute force.
• Experience a living comic book with the innovative 3D Comic Inking Technology.
• Unique animated comic-book panels move the story along.
• Move through a detailed environment and sense danger from multiple perspectives.
• Prepare for an all-new, feature-packed adventure with classic comic-book elements.
• Deepest Spider-Man game ever
• Expanded free-roaming environment includes the addition of Queens.
• Enhanced combat system lets players use the environment to pull off exciting new moves.
• More Spider-Man universe characters than ever before.
• Story and illustration by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, the force behind the comic-book series.
• All-new story is revealed as the game picks up where the comic book left off.

Product Description

In Ultimate Spider-Man, you get an incredible opportunity to be both a hero and a villain. Control Spider-Man as he faces criminals with strange abilities, to defend New York City -- then Switch sides and become the deadly villain called Venom, smashing Manhattan and destroying everything in his path. This original storyline picks up right where the "Ultimate Spider-Man" comics left off, for an immersive adventure. Limited Edition features: G4 Special: Making of Ultimate Spider-Man disc, exclusive interview with Stan Lee, character bios of Spider-Man, Venom, Beetle and Carnage, developer tricks and tips -- and much more!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A comic nut finally gets a game worth his time!, March 21, 2007

By 

MTJones (San Jose, CA United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ultimate Spider-Man Limited Edition (Video Game)

I've been a comic nut since 1990, or the majority of my life. I'm a college-age 'gamer' (the latter word needs a disclaimer since I don't have the time to play video games very much, and often months go by before I spin up the old PS2 again). One of my disappointments as a kid was the scarcity of good comic-based video games.

Ultimate Spider-Man is one of the new generation of games that seek to change all that. Not only is the comic exciting - maybe a bit simplistic, but well-written, well-drawn, and fun - but so is this game. In fact, they took character designs from the USM artist (Mark Bagley) and script cues from the series' writer (Brian Bendis), making the experience as tightly integrated with the comic as you can get.

And the game engine is no slouch. The controls are easy to learn (and re-learn, if you happen to wait months between plays like I did), the camera shifts intuitively, and the web-slinging is both fun and natural. If I played this game for more than 2 hours at a time, I got a little motion sickness - but that taught me to limit my playtime, so it didn't hamper my enjoyment.

The setup is fairly simple: there is a main storyline that cuts back and forth between missions for Spider-Man and Venom. You also get time to do side missions as Spider-Man (such as saving pedestrians and the like). It took me a few tries at some missions, but they didn't require special skill to beat. And even though my gameplay was stretched out over the better part of a year, I felt the game was pretty short overall. The post-game replay value isn't so hot, except for a Venom mini-game where you run around and smash stuff, but that can get old fast. Kids are bound to enjoy this title, but experienced gamers will probably beat this in a few days.

You can figure out where you fall in this range of gaming experience. I'm a lifelong, lately-sporadic gamer without a lot of skill, and I love Spider-Man, so this was well worth the money.

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Spider-Man Game!, October 25, 2009

By 

Patrick_91 "Patrick" (Canada) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ultimate Spider-Man Limited Edition (Video Game)

Well first off allow me to say that I was never a comic nut,gaming got to me before it! Although my dad-who was a huge comic guy in his early teens to early 20's still tried to get me into it (never happened haha). So with this in mind I had no idea Ultimate Spider-Man (hereafter:USM) was based off a comic book until I brought it home and looked it up. What I like most about USM is that it assumes most players are like me,so at the begging of the game it gives you a little bit of back story and then goes into its own story mode for the game. The limited edition also includes a comic book that tells you whats happened prior to the game (nice touch).

Gameplay wise this is as easy as it gets,I have not played a Spider-man game since the original 3D spider-man came out for the PS1 (and that was a demo to boot) After the first mission I got a hang of the controls no problem.

The graphics of USM although from 2005 still look great as they were cel-shaded,giving a more cartoon look (cel-shaded graphics hold up a lot better than regular 3D graphics do) There is a little bit of slowdown on the PS2 version though nothing that will really affect gameplay.

The story of USM is pretty good for a spidey game and although bare-bones gets the job done (I've had way worse). My only complaint with USM is that its really short,it took me (a novice spider-man player) only 5 hours to beat it! The silver lining is that this game is so cheap now (I found the limited edition for the same price as standard-only $15!) that it really doesn't matter anymore about length (for $15 5 hours of story mode ain't bad)

I will now go over what the limited edition includes

What the limited edition includes:

A whole new cardboard slipcase that is holographic showing Venom in the front in purple and Spider-Man in the back in red. The DVD boxart is really neat,it's completely redesigned,on one half it shows the spider-man logo in red holographic with 'limited edition' on the top,on the other side there is a Venom logo with purple holographic also sporting the LE words at the top. The book is also different showing Spidey and Venom fighting the book is also branded with 'LE' words. The disc is also different,its purple and yea it says LE on it too! You also get a full issue comic book to sweetie the deal. I hear this was only a few $$ more to get new,but not many people bought them (shame) If you can find them used at Gamestop they are the same price as the regular edition ($15). I definitely recommend this to anyone!

4.0 out of 5 stars A candle that burns at both ends, September 25, 2005

By 

Charles E. Bradshaw (Orlando, Florida United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Ultimate Spider-Man Limited Edition (Video Game)

After Spider-man 2 (the game) Treyarch proved it could do some really cool stuff with the Spidey franchise and left a lot of people looking forward to seeing how they'd handle advancing their work.

Ultimate Spidey is a great follow up to Spider-man 2. But hardly an advancement or improvement on what Spidey 2. If anything it takes a couple steps back. It's suprisingly different from predecssor. These differences are both its strengths and its weakness. The controls for starters are much more simple... which means web-slinging is a breeze, but that also means that it's not nearly as spectacular as it was in Spidey 2. All the air tricks, slinging stunts, cool web attacks, and combat nuances of Spidey 2 are not here. This is a reflection of the gameplay as a whole as well. Crimes to solve are few and far between, there are no citizens to get missions from, no minigames, nothing but races, battle tours, and story missions... which are nothing more than a chase scene and a boss battle. The gameplay is very bare bones, without being totally so. 10 hours tops is how long it took me for my first play through. This feels more like an old Final Fight style SNES Spidey game at times, rather than a follow up the awesome Spidey 2.

Now, on the other hand, while you don't get to really feel what it's like to be in Spidey's tights, you do get to take on some spectacular boss battles and chases. They're about all there is, but they're awesome for what they are. The story is awesome, albeit there are some questionable loose plot threads. the story goes by in the blink of an eye, but with excellent presentation. It plays out like animated comic book panels. What Ang Lee tried to do with the Hulk movie, but failed miserably. Here it's exciting, though sometimes lacking in audio (one minute there'll be vibrant sound effects, the next weak pitters where there should be slams and bangs). Graphically, it's gorgeous. There's detail here that's far beyond what has come before. And the inking effects really are pretty cool.

My honest feeling is that in a lot of ways, they tried too hard. There's a plethora of bad guys and scenery, it's fast and intense, but in the end it whizzes by in a rush and its over before you know it. I logged mad hours on Spidey 2, powering up, stopping crime, learning new slinging tricks. Here, you get to race the Human Torch from time to time and slinging for a couple hours waiting for a crime to happen. In time, with more replaying my feelings may change, but for now Ultimate Spidey feels like really awesome filler while waiting for Treyarch to really up the ante.

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