Occupies a weird middle ground between the PS1 Spidey games and the million open-world titles that would follow. (This one's still level-based - yeah, hard to even imagine, I know.) If you can wrestle the controls and the camera into submission there is some fun to be had, with lots of moves and fairly good traversal. Dafoe's delicious V/O is almost worth it by itself, but Tobey's sleepy delivery is amusing too, for a very different reason lol. Also in one of the cooler unlockables of the era, you get the option to play the entire game as the Green Goblin, with totally different controls and dialogue in the levels. You're actually playing as Harry Osborn after the events of the movie/game, using his dad's tech to try to figure out what happened to him! The integration is bit half-assed at times, but it's kinda neat, nonetheless.

It could have been worse. Not exactly high praise, but eh.

Reviewed on Feb 18, 2024


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2 months ago

ALSO, and I can't believe I forgot to mention this, it features Bruce Campbell impatiently teaching you how to play the game in the training mode, and at the risk of slightly exaggerating it may be the greatest thing ever in the history of video games

2 months ago

Whoa I completely forgot that the Green Goblin mode had its own plot and mechanics! Now that you've unlocked this childhood memory I... may have to play it again gulp