---Windows 98/ME/2000/XP---
---600 MHz Pentium III or Athlon processor or faster---
---128 MB RAM---
---DirectX 9.0b plus DirectX compatible 16 MB video card---
---1227 MB hard disk space---
Spider-Man 2 is the name of several computer and video games based on the Spider-Man universe and particularly the Spider-Man 2
film. It is a follow up to the game Spider-Man: The Movie and was
followed by Spider-Man 3 to promote the release of the third film in
2007. These games were published by Activision for different systems in
2004.
GamePlay
These games are adaptations of the film Spider-Man 2. The PS2, GameCube, and Xbox versions of the game, developed by Activision's Treyarch
studio, allow the player to freely roam around Manhattan, Roosevelt,
Ellis, and Liberty Islands. The home console versions were also
innovative in that physics-based algorithms simulated Spider-Man's web
swinging in three dimensions, creating a new game mechanic unlike the
traditional jumping or flying of previous Spider-Man games.
Versions of the game on other platforms feature more linear side-scrolling and platform sections. The PSP version of Spider Man 2 was compared to playing the Spider Man 1 plot.
While street thugs only have handguns, machine guns,
crowbars and their fists to protect them, the super-villains and their
minions have their various unique powers and weapons that they use to
either steal, cause terror or defeat Spider-Man.
At the end of the game, it becomes possible to unlock a warehouse in
which the player can again fight thugs and villains such as Shocker,
Rhino, Doctor Octopus, and an additional boss, Calypso, who is not found elsewhere in the game.
The player has the ability to choose either to go on with the storyline
or swing around the city. The player can explore Manhattan, Roosevelt
Island, Ellis Island, Liberty Island, and a mysterious label on the map
over the water claiming "Governors Island"
with many sidequests for the player to complete. The player can do
random tasks to earn "hero points," which must be accumulated to
continue with the plot and are spent on upgrading Spidey's skills.
Plot
It is two years following the events of the first game. Spider-Man is
trying to balance his civilian and superhero life, frequently late or
absent for school, work, and leisure time with his friends. Following
dinner with Mary Jane Watson, Peter thwarts an armed looting of an art
museum, and tracks down an escaped robber, the Black Cat. Soon after
this, he thwarts an attack in the streets of Manhattan by The Rhino.
Meanwhile, Doctor Otto Octavius attempts to recreate nuclear fusion
of that seen in the sun to provide an energy source for Manhattan. To
control this fusion, he creates four metal arms which he can mentally
control. His fusion creates a strong magnetic field, destroying the lab,
killing his wife Rosie, and grafting his metal arms to his spine and
giving his arms control over him. He blames Spider-Man for the incident,
despite the fact that Spider-Man was not in the lab until the middle of
it.
Octavius, now known as Dr. Octopus, kidnaps Aunt May, but she is saved
by Spider-Man. In the time following, special effects artist Quentin
Beck
tries to prove that Spider-Man is a fraud by challenging Peter in a
series of "games". Spider-Man emerges successful. Consequently, Beck
tries to kill Spider-Man, but is thwarted. The embarrassment causes Beck
to assume the identity of Mysterio, attacking journalists attending his
press conference, and commands his "UFOs" to "invade" the Statue of
Liberty.
Both of these attacks are thwarted by Spider-Man's efforts, with no
casualties. Spider-Man eventually teams up with Black Cat, who leads him
to the Shocker,
who escaped during Beck's initial competition with Spider-Man. Shocker
is apprehended in a warehouse after attempting to use an experimental
propulsion system to enhance his powers, while Mysterio is knocked out
with one punch from Spider-Man while trying to rob a Speedy Mart.
Mysterio tells Spider-Man that he trifles with his power once again,
Mysterio tells him that Peter will face his doom today, and he hits him
as Mysterio's helmet drops reveals himself to be Quentin Beck. Peter
takes a few photos of Beck as Mysterio, and J. Jonah Jameson
uses these photos to make it appear that Spider-Man is in league with
Mysterio. Black Cat then leads Spider-Man to an illegal weapons trade,
where she tries to convince him to permanently become Spider-Man, but he
rejects the idea, saying that he cannot stop being either Spider-Man or
who he really is.
Dr. Octopus kidnaps Mary Jane Watson and steals tritium
from Harry Osborn to repower his nuclear fusion in exchange for
Spider-Man. A long battle on top of a moving train leads to Peter being
delivered to Harry. Harry unmasks him, and is greatly shocked that his
best friend is Spider-Man. Nevertheless, Harry tells Peter where Dr
Octopus is based, and Spider-Man sets off to defeat Dr. Octopus a final
time. After shut down all the switches, Peter sees that the fusion
reactor is still on and all of them explodes. After Peter defeats Dr.
Octopus and push him into a switch that shocks him, Otto regains control
of his mind and sacrifices himself to destroy the fusion reactor
permanently.
The next day, Peter gets a surprise visit from Mary Jane, who tells
Peter that she cannot live without him, and wants to offer her full
support to his life as Spider-Man. With his confidence renewed,
Spider-Man continues to defend the city from evil - thus a never-ending
game.
Pc Game
The plot of the PC game differs drastically from the main console
versions. It first starts out with a short cutscene from the primary
console game that introduces as to how Dr. Otto Octavius became Doc Ock
with his fusion reaction experiment. The PC version then diverges from
the console versions with a tutorial, (narrated by Bruce Campbell)
telling the player how to play as Spider-Man, (i.e. web swinging, wall
crawling, fighting, etc.).
The storyline for the game starts off with a cutscene of a gray van
being chased down by the police before it crashes, and out comes two
crooks. Spider-Man dispatches the crooks quickly, but the van drives
away on automatic. Spider-Man follows it to the New York Maximum
Security Prison where a large group of thugs are causing a riot.
Spider-Man defeats many crooks and escaping prisoners before the Rhino
busts out of the prison. He briefly fights Spider-Man before he tries
to charge away, but is caught in a laser cage set up by the police.
Deciding to let the undefeated prisoners escape (whom he can later find
in alleys and hidden areas), Spider-Man goes after the Rhino and defeats
him by making him charge into the laser field (and subsequently pummel
him while he is down, which is an option and could make Rhino's defeat
quicker). And just before he is defeated, Rhino charges at Spider-Man
one last time, escapes the laser field but accidentally rams into a gas
station that blows up and knocks him several blocks away from the
explosion, where Doc Ock takes his unconscious form. Spider-Man lets Ock
get away with Rhino while he douses the fires caused by the explosion
and then demonstrates a new power punch by defeating three crooks (these
power punches are gained when defeating normal enemies, not bosses, and
once they are gained, they drain out during combat, which quickly
defeats enemies with a single punch).
Later, Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter ego, is with his Aunt May
at the bank, and goes to the bathroom just as Doc Ock and a gang of his
robbers hold the bank hostage. Spider-Man pummels his way through the
robbers and saving the hostages, including Aunt May, until he reaches
the basement of the bank where he confronts Ock. They fight, but Ock
gets away with his stolen cash. Spider-Man once again lets him get away
in order to save Aunt May from a band of three robbers who kidnap her
and take her into their van. Spider-Man stops the van, dispatches the
robbers and saves Aunt May.
The next day, Peter is walking with Mary Jane Watson
through the city when they both spot MJ's car getting stolen. Peter
tells MJ to wait where she is while he calls the police. Then Spider-Man
follows the car to a garage where he confronts the villain Puma
and a band of his crooks in a warehouse. Puma leads Spider-Man on a
chase throughout the warehouse while Spider-Man pummels his way through
Puma's cronies, and their initial fight takes place in a small room.
After Puma takes some beating, he takes the fight outside to the
rooftops, at a water fountain and finally to an unfinished construction
site. There, Puma finally surrenders in his fight against Spider-Man,
but gleefully tells him that he was merely a distraction for Spider-Man
while Doc Ock kidnapped Mary Jane. In a cutscene, Puma tries to get away
but Spider-Man webs him up and finally defeats Puma. He calls Mary
Jane, but Ock has kidnapped her.
Later, Ock and his cronies attack OsCorp. Spider-Man goes to OsCorp
to foil the heist there, defeating many cronies and saving countless
civilians and scientists, as well as disabling the eight bombs Ock
placed in the building. Spider-Man is then confronted by Rhino in a room
with six generators which Spider-Man makes the brutish villain ram into
and electrocute himself, but Rhino is not done yet. He confronts
Spider-Man for a third time in a room with four liquid nitrogen tubes
that Spider-Man destroys and leaks the gases in the tubes, quickly
freezing the room. But fortunately, Spider-Man escapes the room before
it freezes and Rhino is frozen with it, finally defeating him. Then
Spider-Man leaves OsCorp through an elevator to continue his search for
Doc Ock on OsCorp's rooftop before he finds himself in a New York
literally torn out of the ground and into the sky by the machinations of
the supervillain Mysterio, who has done this to further Ock's plans.
Spider-Man destroys the generators that seemingly hold New York in
the sky, as well as fighting through Mysterio's numerous robots, before
fighting and chasing a flying Mysterio himself, which Spider-Man fights
back by throwing meteors at the villain that the latter throws down from
the sky to defeat the superhero. But Mysterio is not done yet; he tries
to kill Spider-Man again with a giant laser gun on top of the Daily Bugle,
but Spider-Man destroys it and defeats Mysterio. Mysterio tells
Spider-Man of Ock's plans and disappears, reverting New York back to
normal.
Spider-Man takes the final fight to Doc Ock through the subways,
fighting past the remainder of Ock's cronies, saving Mary Jane and
battling Doc Ock in a final showdown at his fusion reactor. Spider-Man
pummels enough sense into him to make Ock realize the error of his ways
and he sacrifices himself by pulling his machine in with him into the
river (much like the movie), and Spider-Man escapes with Mary Jane
without revealing his identity to either.
Health cheat:
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1.This requires a saved game to work, so either start a new game and reach a
save point or use an old save.
2.Backup the files: "gamestat.ini" and "game#.ini" (where # is the number of
the saved game from 0-9) from the \Spider-Man 2\System directory
(eg: game0.ini)
3.Edit both files with notepad.exe (or equivalent)
4.For \Spider-Man 2\Systemgamestat.ini change the line:
MaxHealth=100 // 200 is upgraded value
to
MaxHealth=1000 // 2000 is upgraded value
Now save the file.
5.For \Spider-Man 2\Systemgame#.ini change the value:
Health=100MaxHealth=100
to
Health=1000 MaxHealth=1000
This will give you 1000 hit points 10x the standard. Use higher values if
necessary, you can edit your current health at any time by reaching a save
point and changing the line Health=### in the "game#.ini" to it's max value
again. Thankfully, this doesn't effect enemy forces.
Cheat:
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Type these codes in the main menu.
1.valgium - 1000 life
2.tokesta - 1000 webs
3.estrotr - twice jump
4.putfull - in visible
Spider-Man2-The game - Level select:
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This needs editing "game*.ini" file. Go to X:\....\Spider-Man 2\System folder
& search for the file "game*.ini" ('*' indicates number 0-8).Open the file &
do the following changes.
level 1: Rhino's Rampage
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Map=CB3_CityStreet.whr
CurrentLevel=1
LevelComplete0=1
(If u want save as game0.ini).
level 2:8-Armed Robbery
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Map=WallStreet_Bank.whr
CurrentLevel=2
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1 (default LevelComplete0=o make 1)
(default will be :LevelComplete1=o
LevelComplete1=0 make it has 1)
(If u want save as game1.ini).
Level 3: Puma Pounces
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Map=ParkAve_CityStreet.whr
CurrentLevel=3
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
(If u want save as game2.ini).
Level 4: OsCorp Assault
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Map=WallStreet_OsCorpLab.whr
CurrentLevel=4
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
LevelComplete3=1
(If u want save as game3.ini).
Level 5:Mission: Mysterio's Calamity
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Map=TwistedCity_Part01.whr
CurrentLevel=5
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
LevelComplete3=1
LevelComplete4=1
(If u want save as game4.ini).
Level 6:Subway Peril
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Map=Wharf_Train.whr
CurrentLevel=6
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
LevelComplete3=1
LevelComplete4=1
LevelComplete5=1
CurrentLevel=6
(If u want save as game5.ini).
Level 7: Final Battle
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Map=Wharf_Warehouse.whr
CurrentLevel=7
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
LevelComplete3=1
LevelComplete4=1
LevelComplete5=1
LevelComplete6=1
(If u want save as game6.ini).
Level 8: Free Play
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Map=WallStreet_CityStreet.whr
CurrentLevel=8
LevelComplete0=1
LevelComplete1=1
LevelComplete2=1
LevelComplete3=1
LevelComplete4=1
LevelComplete5=1
LevelComplete6=1
LevelComplete7=1
(If u want save as game7.ini).
