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04-21-2004, 11:41 AM
Spider-Man is the best superhero of all time. Peter Parker is the best alter-ego. Stan Lee the best writer, John Romita the best artist, and Sam Raimi the best director. When it comes to Spidey we can be a little irrational; he's the best, dammit.
Staunch defenders of all things Spider-Man as we are though, even we wouldn't go as far as to say that Activision's last Spidey title was one of the finest videogame we'd ever played. Much as we dug the visuals and certain elements of the game, the fact was the game of the movie was severely flawed. Thankfully, developer Treyarch's new title looks set to address those flaws in some style.

We've seen some new screenshots from Spidey 2, and while unfortunately we're not allowed to show them just yet, it's fair to say they look pretty awesome - one of the shots shows the superhero clinging via a webline to a helicopter as it cruises above New York. More usefully though, we've recently unearthed some new details on the game...

Spider-Man 2 revolves around the day-to-day life of Spidey and Peter Parker - in other words, life in the bustling city goes on even as the "story" elements of the game unfold. Treyarch's creative director, Tomo Moriwaki, comments: "we're trying to make it feel that you're Spider-Man doing your Spider-Man job, and that the story is happening to you - the story controls you, not you controlling it".

As has been previously suggested, the game owes something to the freeform feel of the GTA series, with major specific goals but also the option to just swing across the city and emmerse yourself in random action.

Spidey's animation is said to be impressively fluid, while we're also told that pretty much any area of the city that you can see will eventually be accessible - some areas are locked to begin with, and become available as you progress through the game.

The webswinging system of the title has undergone a complete redesign. For Spider-Man 2 an emulated physics system is being utilised, meaning that, for example, if you have enough velocity you can do a full 360-degree spin - well, swing really - around an object.

The system sounds relatively simple to use - aim the left analogue stick in the appropriate direction and then press the trigger button to shoot a web. The game will automatically deduce the nearest solid object to the direction you pointed in and send your web to that location.

You can shoot a second strand of web while still clinging to the first strand in classic Spidey style, and even use two strands to form a sling-shot effect.

Spider-Man 2's representation of New York City is a faithful one, with every district of the city represented and the chance to mix it up on the street as well as swinging from skyscraper to skyscraper.

Meanwhile, action can range from fairly tame missions, like helping a bawling kid regain his lost balloon (now that's a slow day in the Big Apple) to the rather more taxing, when you'll need to sort out a gang of armed robbers.

How much the game mirrors the action of this Summer's movie is currently being kept under wraps, but in addition to Dr Octopus, one of the other main supervillains appearing in the game is Mysterio.

You'll have to confront the goldfish bowl-headed super baddie in his Funhouse-style lair, taking on his diabolical crew of evil clowns and nightmarish, distorted mirror images of yourself. We're also promised a ton of new combat combos, as well as the already announced ability to attack multiple enemies with your webbing.

What can we tell you? As an adaptation of the adventures of Mrs Parker's favourite nephew, this is shaping up to be rather magnificent. We will of course have much more on Spider-Man 2 as we get it; for now, to see footage of the game, click here for a link to a rather nifty streaming movie.

http://www.poptarts.com/promotions/pt_spidey/extras.html
At the end it says click here for a nifty movie ^^^ thats the link, or just click the other link and find it there if you want.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php?id=103574
Where I found it.

I own the first one and like it, but hopfully this ones alot better.