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Ultimate Spider-Man 2005
Log Status
Completed
Playing
Backlog
Wishlist
Rating
Time Played
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Days in Journal
4 days
Last played
February 18, 2023
First played
February 12, 2023
Platforms Played
This game's cool and awesome, Ultimate Spider-Man is a smaller scale Spider-Man 2 but with so much style.
The visuals are comic book stylized, including cutscenes that play around with different cameras shown as comic panels, using onomatopoeias for flavor as well.
The story is simple, switching from the perspective of Spider-Man and Venom every couple of missions and eventually connecting them both, apparently the game can be considered canon to the Ultimate comics which is cool to know but I haven't read them myself.
The music is great, makes me think of the word bopping which probably makes no sense but you might see what I mean if you listen to it.
The controls are a little odd at first, may be a mouse and keyboard thing, but took me some more than an hour to really get a hang of them. After getting used to the controls though this is the fastest Spider-Man game I've played, you can combine web slinging, web zips and double jumps to traverse the map and it can go so so fast, there's races to do to practice this and I'd recommend doing so to get a better hang of the controls.
My problem with Spider-Man gameplay comes from the combat, it's pretty simplistic with a punch, kick and grab button as well as covering enemies with webs, but the game encourages comboing by switching targets each hit for extra damage. Switching targets to be more efficient is great but bosses are all single targets, which means you'll just spam your attacks without that much strategy and win most of the time.
However the shortcomings of playing as Spider-Man get balanced by the fact that you also get to play as Venom, he can't web sling but can jump far and do a web zip but with his symbiote tentacles, combat with him isn't that different but the symbiote suit needs to be fed, so you'll need to consume people to make sure you don't run out of health. Asides from that Venom combat is honestly more satisfying because he's kinda more violent, the symbiote tentacles are very powerful to use, and they actually can make boss fights less annoying.
I don't care much for completing the open world but going through it is fun in itself, the simple story works well enough for playing through the missions featuring a bunch of recognizable villains and characters, at its core this game is pretty standard but it's just very fun and stylized so it's worth the 3 or 4 hours to play through the main game.
The visuals are comic book stylized, including cutscenes that play around with different cameras shown as comic panels, using onomatopoeias for flavor as well.
The story is simple, switching from the perspective of Spider-Man and Venom every couple of missions and eventually connecting them both, apparently the game can be considered canon to the Ultimate comics which is cool to know but I haven't read them myself.
The music is great, makes me think of the word bopping which probably makes no sense but you might see what I mean if you listen to it.
The controls are a little odd at first, may be a mouse and keyboard thing, but took me some more than an hour to really get a hang of them. After getting used to the controls though this is the fastest Spider-Man game I've played, you can combine web slinging, web zips and double jumps to traverse the map and it can go so so fast, there's races to do to practice this and I'd recommend doing so to get a better hang of the controls.
My problem with Spider-Man gameplay comes from the combat, it's pretty simplistic with a punch, kick and grab button as well as covering enemies with webs, but the game encourages comboing by switching targets each hit for extra damage. Switching targets to be more efficient is great but bosses are all single targets, which means you'll just spam your attacks without that much strategy and win most of the time.
However the shortcomings of playing as Spider-Man get balanced by the fact that you also get to play as Venom, he can't web sling but can jump far and do a web zip but with his symbiote tentacles, combat with him isn't that different but the symbiote suit needs to be fed, so you'll need to consume people to make sure you don't run out of health. Asides from that Venom combat is honestly more satisfying because he's kinda more violent, the symbiote tentacles are very powerful to use, and they actually can make boss fights less annoying.
I don't care much for completing the open world but going through it is fun in itself, the simple story works well enough for playing through the missions featuring a bunch of recognizable villains and characters, at its core this game is pretty standard but it's just very fun and stylized so it's worth the 3 or 4 hours to play through the main game.