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Spider-Man for Xbox Original
Spider-Man for the Xbox Original combines the 2002 film with additional villains from the comics. You start as Peter Parker and develop into the web-slinging hero who takes on the Green Goblin. Along the way, you also face Shocker, Vulture and Scorpion, among others. You progress through separate missions on rooftops, inside buildings and around Oscorp's facilities. This Xbox release also includes two additional levels featuring Kraven the Hunter.
You jump onto walls, hang from ceilings and use webs to cross gaps or immobilize enemies. In combat, you can combine punches and kicks with web attacks. Enemies with firearms call for a different position from a group standing right in front of you. Yellow Spider-Man icons in the levels teach you additional combinations, gradually giving you more ways to handle a confrontation.
Outdoor missions give you room to move between tall buildings; indoors, you more often need to look carefully for enemies or passages. Some objectives require slipping past guards unnoticed. The camera and the combination of movement and web abilities take some getting used to. This is a single-player adventure. Its enjoyment lies in mastering Spider-Man's different powers within a clearly defined mission, with cutscenes introducing the next event in the story.
Region and language
Our Xbox Original games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Spider-Man for Xbox Original includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Spider-Man
Activision released Spider-Man in 2002 around Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film. Treyarch developed the home console version, including the Xbox Original edition. Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe also voiced their characters for the game. The film supplied the recognizable hero, the Green Goblin and the main storyline, while the developers added extra confrontations to create a standalone playable adventure.
This approach followed Activision's earlier Spider-Man games. Climbing, web-slinging and different web attacks again took center stage, now in more extensive three-dimensional environments. The game distributed these abilities across self-contained missions. This let the developers follow a chase above the city immediately with a fight or stealth route inside a building. Your performance in each mission also played a part in unlocking extra material.
This edition belongs to the period before Spider-Man 2's open-city structure in 2004. In that sequel, Treyarch developed free movement through New York much further. The 2002 game instead shows the transition from earlier console adventures to the new film world: a fixed sequence of missions, expanded combat combinations and moments built specifically around Spider-Man's freedom of movement.
Similar games for Xbox Original
Spider-Man 2 on the Xbox Original gives you an open New York with activities between story missions. Swinging through the city is an adventure element in its own right. The 2002 Spider-Man divides rooftops, interiors and battles into separate levels. That structure gives each mission a clear beginning and end.
Ultimate Spider-Man uses a distinctive comic-book style and lets you control both Spider-Man and Venom. You also explore streets and neighborhoods outside the immediate story events. The 2002 film game keeps its focus on Peter Parker and a fixed sequence of missions, with the film's portrayal of the Green Goblin as a major opposing force.
Batman Begins connects its film story with stealth, gadgets and frightening criminals. Spider-Man also has indoor missions where you want to remain unseen. Batman makes fear a recurring system; Spider-Man offers more vertical movement through walls, ceilings and webs, so the space above an enemy often provides a useful route.
The 2003 Hulk alternates heavy combat and destruction with stealth sections as Bruce Banner. Both games translate a superhero film into separate action scenarios. Within those situations, Spider-Man more often lets you act at a distance using webs or quickly change height. Hulk puts most of the emphasis on strength and smashing the immediate surroundings.
The Incredibles gives different family members their own levels built around their superpowers. You move from heavy combat to fast running sections or stealth. Spider-Man builds its variety around one hero combining multiple abilities. This lets you learn to make better use of a fixed collection of moves, whereas in The Incredibles the character regularly determines your approach.
