The giant lizard thing is the worst boss I've ever had the displeasure of fighting in any videogame, the dickheads in MHGU included.
Even ignoring that bullshit that wasted 10 minutes I'll never get back, the game is janky as all hell. That QTE cutscene that everyone laughs at is not a one-time thing, everything in this game is like that.
Speaking of the quick time events, they are definitely the worst thing about this piece of shit. The giant lizard is hellish to fight, but at least I only have to fight that cunt once. These are annoying, way too fast to react without failing once, and appear constantly, I hate whoever programmed these.
The combat can be fun, simple but not horrible. However, there's not a single boss fight that is fun, they are all horrible, some can be cheesed for 2 minutes straight, while in the others you have to sit there and realize that you're wasting some time of your life playing a shitty game made by Activision.
EDIT: I said that the lizard was the worst fight ever in any game... well don't worry, it is still horrible, but we have another moron in our way.
Remember when I said that the bosses are not fun? Add consecutive quick and more annoying than usual QTEs, and you have the Sandman portion that you play as Goblin.
If you, on top of that, add a shitty fucking gimmick and attacks that are so much buggy that they make Sonic '06 seem like a masterpiece, and you have that Rhino cunt.
Turn all of that up to eleven, and you get the shitshow that is Venom. For real, it is so bad that i genuinely think that it was programmed by an aborted fetus. You might think this is inclusive, but it's just retarded.
I would rather kill myself, get reincarnated as a black american and annoy a police officer just so I would be killed again than touch this piece of shit again, I'm done.

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE PS3/XBOX 360/PC VERSION

I can't believe I'm doing this, but I'm about to write a short Spider-Man 3 defense piece. It's not perfect by any means, hell it has some pretty bad flaws. QTE's are insane at times, and there wasn't a single boss that didn't make my thumbs hurt. However, underneath all the rubble is a game that was rushed to completion, and my theory, probably forced into a Spider-Man 3 tie-in game. Think about it. The plot is almost completely unrelated, and only 4 missions out of 42 are actually related to the plot of Spider-Man 3 at all. Couple that with the fact that this was being developed concurrently with Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, and I think this is a "Spider-Man v. Crime" game turned into a Spider-Man 3 one. Now, another thing. The combat, and this becomes a theme here is ALMOST pretty good. The combo variety is crazy, but where the problem comes in is when the dodge is on the trigger instead of the face buttons. This results in massive thumb pain from pure mashing while your index finger does all the work on dodging. The same goes for the swinging. It's ALMOST pretty good, but brought down by wanting to be more advanced than Ultimate was. Every swing has an animation, but there's no variety, and because of that it feels repetitive. It also feels slow. but it has upsides, it has a proto-Spider-Man PS4 tricks, one of which was actually ripped straight out of this game and put into Miles Morales. I even think it improves upon the previous 2 in some ways. They're finally confident enough in their length to not have you be forced to do side content to unlock new missions, but make no mistake, it's just as plentiful as it was in those games. It's now just what it's meant to be. Side content. What people really rag on this game about though are the graphics, and they do not look nearly as bad as people exaggerate them to be. It's mostly all held in the facial scanning, which is something that still looked bad in games like Infamous Second Son seven years later. The city, and effects look beautiful, if a little flat, but feel alive. The windows light up at night, the city feels dense with these weird paper people, and the traffic feels more alive than even Spider-Man PS4 does at times. Speaking of, I see the most influence from this game in Spider-Man PS4 than I do in any other Spider-Man game. There's the air tricks I mentioned, but also a similar swing kick, grabbing and throwing objects, creative, and expansive crimes and more. Coincidence? Probably, but I thought it was neat.

It’s hard to believe I complained so much about the problems the Spider-Man 2 movie game had after playing this…

This is next level BAD. I was upset with the last game for underutilizing the incredible music, but compared to this game that felt like a goddamn concert. Why is it so quiet and awkward when swinging around?!

Speaking of swinging around, I’m glad they kept SOME of what worked about the second games swinging. You can tell there were things they ditched altogether though, and not for the better.

One thing the second game really nailed to make the play through experience more FUN was it’s inclusion of web tricks. This game completely abandons that. In fact, this game completely abandons 75% of what made Spider-Man 2 so much fun.

Instead we’re treated to more bland visuals that are some how worse than the last game, a mind numbingly terrible translation of an already convoluted story, hysterically bad dialogue, a boring and clunky combat system, and repetitive, monotonous side tasks that take up more than 50% of the entire game (I wish I were kidding)!

I find it incredible just how far from Grace this series fell. Can’t wait to play Ultimate Spider-Man because it’ll be such a good pallet cleanser after finishing this putrid pile of shit.

Now, to end this on a lighter note, here’s a hilarious dialogue exchange between Peter and MJ towards the end of the game:

MJ:
What’s wrong? You haven’t said a single word all night.

PETER:
I figured you were talking enough for the both of us.

MJ:
Peter, what’s gotten into you lately?

PETER:
Nothing that stopping your gums from flapping wouldn’t solve!

… I couldn’t make this up if I tried.

I waited for FIFTEEN YEARS to play this game until I recently modded my Wii and USB Loader GX and Vimm's Lair made my dream come true. Was preparing for disappointment but instead I started having a lot of fun.

Just as its predecessor, it has a lot of Raimi-era Spider-Man charm, Tobey is better than ever, the plot is creative, the fighting is great, it just needed a little more polishing. As it approaches the end it starts to come apart and show its rough spots (the climax felt really weak, the boss fights in the first movie tie-in game are way more exciting), but overall I was really satisfied with finally playing this.

THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE PS2/Wii/PSP VERSION

I was going to give this a lenient score, but honestly I couldn't come up with any redeemable factor. The combat is terrible, the swinging worse. The story feels like reading a synopsis of the movie, but not like a Wikipedia one, the promotional one given out to the press when the movie is announced. The fucking black suit, the main selling point, in some terrible attempt at immersion basically acts as a death sentence halfway through the game due to a ridiculous quick time event button mash that is nearly impossible to complete. My score for the PS2 version would be a 1/2 star.

Played on PPSSPP Emulator, but have completed on original hardware before.

I mean it's certainly Spiderman, only thing is the amount of random shit added and glitches really bring this game down. Like with the random new gangs, the Lizard, Kraven, Kingpin, just feels cluttered. Doesn't help that the game feels rushed out the ass, just to tie in with Spiderman 3 release, such a disappointment, Venom still looks bad in both the Raimi Movie and This game, nostalgia means nothing when trying to find something good about this game. The only thing that are pros are obviously that hilarious beginning with the exploding building, and the swinging against, apart from that, this game is just meh.