Upon release, it received generally positive reviews and quickly became a best-seller, although some criticized its length, voice acting, and camera control. Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe reprise their roles from the film, as Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, respectively, while Bruce Campbell, who played a wrestling ring announcer in the movie, narrates the game's tutorial and bonus levels. While the game directly adapts the plot of the film it is based on, it also builds upon it by including scenes from the film and villains don't appear in the movie. LTI Gray Matter developed the Microsoft Windows version and Digital Eclipse developed the Game Boy Advance version. Published by Activision, the console versions were developed by Activision's then recently acquired subsidiary Treyarch, who had previously ported Neversoft's 2000's Spider-Man to Microsoft Windows and Dreamcast. The Game Boy Advance version was later re-released and bundled on Twin Pack cartridge with Spider-Man 2 in 2005. It was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Advance on April 16, 2002, in North America (two weeks before the film's release), and June 7 in Europe. All-in-all a great film that I wouldn't hesitate for a second in recommending.Spider-Man is a 2002 action-adventure game based on the 2002 film of the same name. My only gripe was with the Green Goblin's costume. Jameson hit the mark, the snarling facial contortions of Willem Defoe were suitably evil-looking (and the conversation with his mirror-image was a great touch). There are few of the painful cliches or dreadful dialogue that plague films like The Phantom Menace and the catchphrases like "friendly neighbourhood spider-man" are fully in-keeping with the character. The effects do look artificial but the pace of the movie means you don't have time to dwell on this and the script is fine! What do people want, Shakespearian soliloquies? That would sound incredibly out-of-place in modern day New York. The acting is generally great - there is never a time when anyone is not believable as their character and you think "Hey, that's an actor, not Peter Parker". But if you go into Spider-man without this prejudicial attitude you'll be pleasently suprised. People seem to automatically comment that the script and acting was bad because they expect it to be the case in these films and indeed it usually is. As it turns out, this is probably the best super-hero film I've yet seen - certainly up there with Superman and Batman. Thankfully I was wrong on most counts (The Goblin still looks rubbish). The computer effects looked badly integrated, the Green Goblin's costume looked awful and comic book adaptations usually have such painful scripting and plotting. Having seen the trailers for this film I have to say that I didn't walk into the cinema with high hopes.
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