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4.0 out of 5 stars Quite fun...4.5 stars, September 26, 2005

By	Geoffrey McNulty "Rock Squad" (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars

I'll be the first to admit it, I'm not a video game guy. I buy one or two games per year, and the last one I bought was Spider-Man 2, which I played like crazy. I loved that game. When I heard about Ultimate Spider-Man, and that it was going to have the same structure as SM2, I knew that it would be my gaming purchase of the season.

I definitely did not waste my money. If you enjoyed Spider-Man 2, chances are you're going to enjoy this game as well.

So far, I am very happy with this game. It will give me many hours of enjoyment. Still, there are elements of the game that could have been improved. The radar/map that was present in SM2 is still intact, but is much harder to see in this incarnation. Swinging through trees is disorientating as well. These are minor gripes, and once I got used to them, the game is just as good as SM2. Currently I am stuck trying to chase Electro as Venom, a task that is proving much harder than any of the Black Cat chases in the previous game.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Ultimate Spiderman is indeed ultimate but only for a short period of time, March 26, 2006

By	Super Cool "Sc" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars

As the title indicates Ultimate Spiderman has a very short single-player story, which can probably be completed in six hours or even less. The length of the game, however, is considerably lengthened side-tasks most of which are web-swinging races, some of which are gang beat-em-ups, and occasionally rescuing and searching for hidden tokens. These side-tasks are by no means side-quests and are by no means as entertaining as the main story, so why do they comprise the majority of the game's length is a question that will boggle the minds of gamers. This game had the potential to achieve greatness, but falls short due to shortness of story. The inked-cartoonish look of Spiderman is great although not as spectacular as the model Spiderman in Spiderman the Movie game, which I have also reviewed. I have yet to play Spiderman II, but at some point I plan to. However, the short story of Ultimate Spiderman is far superior in gameplay than the gameplay of Spiderman the Movie. Playing as both Spiderman and Venom is great and both characters are well-designed with fabulous inked-comic book looks, which in a way maybe better than the more deeply modeled look in Spiderman the Movie. Play as Spiderman you feel both swift and powerful, while playing as Venom you feel a great sense of power and monstrous rage. It is great. The majority of missions are as Spiderman, which is fine. The most spectacular parts of this game are the boss battles. Wow, you truly fight gigantic characters in this game, that would seemingly crush Spiderman but cannot for his speed and wit are too great. Venom leaps tall buildings in a single-bound just to give you a hint about his power. The game has various unlockables but they are for the most part afterthoughts. The Spiderman missions involve saving bystanders, chasing enemies down and cornering them, and fighting them with a strategy. One major difference in this game than in the movie game is that Spiderman can actually fight well; he has got some skills and combos are quite easy to perform. Not too many three-button combos here, but rather combos linked by bouncing off-walls or one opponent to the next. It is a neat and rewarding combo system. The few moves that are missing from Spiderman in this game that I liked in the movie game are impact webbing, webbed fists, and the web dome, of which the web dome was the most effective move in the game. Impact webbing is a neat idea because you send a ball of webbing at high speed. Do not think that would be effective, well then think again because it would probably be more effective than hurling a high-speed basketball at someone. All the same the moves in Ultimate Spiderman just make sense and are good enough to really enjoy. Spiderman is no longer a wimp that can be bullied by an ordinary street thug. He is seriously tough in this game. Venom, on the other hand, is back-breakingly tough meaning he can do back-breakers and skull-breakers, which is super cool. The races against J Storm are entertaining and the other races are fun for a while but not enough that you want it to replace at least a few more hours of the story that you feel just should have been there. In this case, less races and side-tasks is more, as in more better. Rescuing the random New Yorker in distress, however, is quite entertaining and I try to rescue them every chance I get. This part of the game should be kept because it is so random that it is entertaining and it seems like something that Spiderman would do. The web-swinging in Ultimate Spiderman, however, probably has even more camera problems when making tight turns and leaps than the web-swinging in Spiderman the Movie game. This observation is important when you consider that majority of the time spent completing Ultimate Spiderman are the races. Also, in Ultimate Spiderman you have to work to keep swinging and speed up, unlike in Spiderman the Movie game where you can just hold down the R button or one of those buttons. This idea is good and bad because you can no longer mindlessly swing, which is good because mindlessly swinging is not realistic at all, but you have to continuosly press buttons during swinging, which is bad because it can get tiresome especially during a long race. The web-swinging of Ultimate Spiderman has a redeeming quality, however, because you can combo your swings and it becomes easier to do as you become more familiar with the controls. For instance, you can swing, swoosh, somersault, swing swoosh, double somersault, and swing, swoosh, and back-flip, which are all super cool. All in all, Ultimate Spiderman is a fun and great game while the story lasts, but next time Activision should put a longer story in their game and maybe then it would have spectacular. It is definitely worth $20 but not the $50 that I paid for it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars This game is awesome!!!, December 14, 2005

A Kid's Review

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars

Because I am a spiderman fan, I immediately had to get this game. The graphics, levels and characters were great. I loved the sound effects. Anyone who likes spiderman should buy it.