Ultimate Spider-Man

""I am Spiderman" you can say this quote and more in the comfort of yuor home with this new Ultimate Spiderman game."

The mask hero of justice is back with yet another game, but this ain't your brother's real father's Spiderman. This one is straight from the ultimate comic book series.

Gameplay:8/10
For those of you slow enough not to realize it like myself this game is based on the ultimate Spiderman comic book series. All this means is this game has the same characters as before only with modified background and a slightly different story. In this game you are Spiderman as he was in high school being forced by your ideal of justice to defend the city from sinister foes. And how could we do this without our super human abilities which are all accessible in this game. Seriously in this game you can wall crawl, web up opponents, web sling, double jump, and of course you have the spider sense. The game negatively doesn't give you much moves to do in terms of combat. It only forces you to use the same combos time after time because you can't unlock combos in fact you can't really unlock anything. You are given two extra moves to your combo as you progress through this game and you could gain three notches of speed on your web sling that isn't even noticeable. Now for all you Venom fans guess who you can play with in an appropriate way....that's right Venom is accessible in this game and he is extremely fun to use. He has an amazing vertical leap instead of Spidey's web sling, a whip like arm, the ability to throw cars, and the power to absorb people's energy which is needed to feed the suit because if it's hunger isn't quenched you will slowly lose some of your health time after time. Venom is nowhere near as agile as Spiderman where as Spiderman is nowhere near as powerful as Venom so this will force you to change your battle strategy as you play through the game. The game also has free roam which is as normal in super hero games as slow-mo is in 3rd person shooting games. The game really comes through in the boss battles for you have the most enemies ever offered in a Spiderman game to date and each and everyone are fun and exciting to battle. Negatively before most boss fight you've got to do a chase..... if you were wondering what is that noise you heard it was me vomiting to the idea. You end up doing the same things over and over. For example rescuing people who the villain hurt to slow you down in your daring chase, but the real tediousness comes from the side missions you get in free roam which are still the same from the game Spiderman 2.

Sound: 9/10
The sound is great. I have no real complaints except for some of the repetitive dialect which is only really experienced half way towards the end.

Visuals: 8/10
This game has great visuals. I especially enjoyed the comic book like cut scenes which is very difficult to explain. The only thing I really didn't like was if you looked at the people they were horrible and if you looked at the clouds they don't move, in fact they just look like a drawing.

Replayability/Play time:
This game takes a while if you seek to unlock all the costumes other wise depends. The game is replayable only for the Spiderman fans I wouldn't see so otherwise.

Overall: 8/10
This game is great gamers and non gamers alike will enjoy this especially since Venom can be used. So if your life long obsession is to dress in tights and jump around like a crazy man and act like a super hero like Stan Lee (I'm not saying Stan Lee is crazy let's just leave that option open) then this game is a must have. So way to go Treyarch you done good.... you done..........good

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 10/03/05