Pros: The first real 3D Spider-Man video game, that let you web sling around a free-roam city (well, the skyscrapers anyway, the smog on the streets below would kill you, heh), and that alone, made this game incredibly compelling. There's also quite a lot of decent fanservice in this one too, such as multiple costumes with varying abilities for each, as well as all of the most iconic Spider-Man villains, with a decent enough story to take you across each of them in fun scenarios and fights. The Lizard, Mysterio, Rhino, Dr. Octopus, and one of the best depictions of Venom in games, alongside Carnage, who was of course the king of the 90s in the world of Spider-Man, had to have him as the end fight (well, a form of Carnage anyhow!). It was exactly what we wanted out of a Spider-Man game in the N64/Playstation era, and a high quality enough developer to make it feel not entirely jank or embarrassing (lookin' at you, Superman 64)... And all of Spider-Man's abilities worked great for gameplay too, such as the amount of freedom felt by wall crawling anywhere you'd like, or using spider sense in combat, even just using web to grab things, whip em around, and stringing up foes. This was a well made Spider-Man game, for sure!

Cons: The campaign missions aren't always the most fun, and combat isn't the most compelling, punching and kicking, punching and kicking... And yeah, the aforementioned smog in the city, c'mon! Also, this was a time before web swinging felt like swinging, and it rather felt more like flying, with a canned Spider-Man slinging webbing around animation... They figured it out in time. Anyway, the linear nature of the game's story mode, while fun, ended up not being what we wanted out of Spider-Man games in the long run.

What it means to me: Spider-Man was my brother's favorite super hero, and perhaps, mine as well, so this was, in a sense, the game we'd been waiting for! And for a Spider-Man fan, who loved the character and stories up to that point, this game did not disappoint!