Spider-Man 2

"In an era where movie tie-in games were synonymous with total garbage fires, experience a superhero title that bumped the trend and went down in history as a classic by doing just two simple thing: mostly ignoring the movie, and giving even the tiniest shit about the gameplay: SPIDER-MAN 2."

- Jon Bailey

Spider-Man 2 is an action game featured on Top 5 Friday, Why We're Single, and Honest Game Trailers.

Information
Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 action-adventure game developed by Treyarch, The Fizz Factor, Digital Eclipse, Activision, Tapwave, Aspyr, and Vicarious Visions for various consoles and published by Activision. It was released to critical acclaim.

Gameplay
Loosely based on the film of the same name, the player controls Spider-Man they freely roam around New York City. A most popular aspect was the web-swinging mechanic, where Spider-Man had to shoot webbing at an actual building, unlike previous games where he shot webbing up into the sky. Versions of the game on other platforms feature more linear side-scrolling and platform sections.

While street thugs only have handguns, machine guns, crowbars and their fists to protect them, the super-villains and their minions have their various unique powers and weapons that they use to either steal, cause terror or defeat Spider-Man. At the end of the game, it becomes possible to unlock a warehouse in which the player can again fight thugs and villains such as Shocker, Rhino, Doctor Octopus, and an additional boss, Calypso, who is not found elsewhere in the game.

The player can choose either to go on with the storyline or swing around the city. The player can explore Manhattan, Roosevelt Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and a mysterious label on the map over the water claiming "Governor's Island" (which was omitted from the final version due to time constraints) with many sidequests for the player to complete. The player can do random tasks to earn "hero points", which must be accumulated to continue with the plot and are spent on upgrading Spidey's skills.