It’s not bad looking, and features voice actors from the movie (who sound asleep at the wheel), but it’s just so disappointing that Activision didn’t give PC gamers the same in depth and engaging Spider-Man action that consoles have. It’s a step backward from Activision’s very first, and far better, Spider-Man game. Combat is simple button mashing, and the enemy AI is non-existent. Calling the game dumbed down is too kind—it’s a kiddie-sized version of the console game, with game mechanics that were old school in the 16-bit era. You can only shoot webs at designated icons, and the action, which mixes plot points from the movie with a variety of other Spidey villains, is mediocre and simplistic.
It certainly isn’t superb in fact, it’s mediocre on its best day. Spider-Man 2 on the PC, however, was developed by a company appropriately named Fizz Factor, and is neither free roaming nor sprawling. In this case, though, it isn’t a bad game because it’s a quick port of the console version, it’s because it’s not: the Treyarch-developed Spider-Man 2 for consoles is a huge, sprawling action adventure that allows players nearly complete freedom of movement through New York City, and it’s a superb game. What’s worse, it’s not even a ‘port’ to a bad game. Gamers have put up with mediocre ports for some time, and Activision isn’t exempt from this trend unfortunately, that trend reaches insufferable levels with the PC version of Spider-Man 2, a sequel to a game that was surprisingly fun in its day. Typically, shovelware is a cheap port over of a console game that, while roughly the same as the console version, takes no advantage of the extra options or abilities offered on the PC.
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