Spider-Man 3 (video game)

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Spider-Man 3
Developer(s)	Treyarch (PS3 & Xbox 360) Vicarious Visions (Wii, PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, GBA) Treyarch, ported by Beenox (PC),
Publisher(s)	Activision
Native resolution	720p
Platform(s)	GBA, Windows, Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360
Release date(s)	May 4, 2007 EU May 18, 2007 (PS3) AUS September 19, 2007 (PS3 Collector's Edition)[1] October 16, 2007 (PSP)
Genre(s)	Action game, sandbox
Mode(s)	Single-player
Rating(s)	ESRB: T PEGI: 12+
Media	Blu-ray Disc, DVD-DL (Xbox 360, PC, Wii & PS2), UMD (PSP) Flash card (DS), Cartridge (GBA)

Spider-Man 3 is a video game loosely based on the Spider-Man 3 film. It was released May 4, 2007.

The scenario draws from the film, Spider-Man comics and the Marvel Universe. The game features nine villains on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, five villains on the GBA and DS, and eight on the Wii, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2, including the movie's primary villains Venom, New Goblin, and Sandman.

[edit] Summary

• Beginning: Common by both developers in different styles*

Luke Carlyle blows up his building and escapes in a helicopter, Spider-Man enters the burning building, fights the troopers there and saves the civilians from being burnt by an explosion.

Peter Parker has finally started to feel secure. He is now Mary Jane Watson's boyfriend, and New York City loves Spider-Man. The problem is that Harry Osborn won't talk to him, new gangs arrive, Eddie Brock is threatening to take Peter's place at the Daily Bugle, and an escaped prisoner--Flint Marko--falls into a particle accelerator which changes him into the Sandman.

On a small date, Peter and MJ are talking about Harry, at that time Harry empowers himself using the Goblin Green Formula to have his vengeance for his father's death.

• TREYARCH EDITION: PS3, XBOX360, PC*

Peter he goes to the Daily Bugle and finds out that there are giant lizards roaming the city and he must take pictures of them.

Returning to the Bugle Peter hears the phone conversation between the bomber & Jameson about Bombers plans to destroy the subway, Spider-Man head's there to defuse the bombs and stop a train from blowing the subway.

Later Spider-Man meets Jeanne DeWolfe and is asked to help stop the weapon deal between rotten police officers and the Dragon Tails after taking photo evidence about the deal.

The Apocalypse gang introduce the city to their menace and Spider-Man stops most of them and defeat their boss in Manhattan after stopping them from blowing the power station.

The Arsenic Candy steal and hurt people to prepare themselves for the wedding of their boss Persilla, Spider-Man stops their robbery in a "Teddy Bear" factory and saves two people from a fire crackers factory warehouse the Arsenic Candy was about to blow.

In ESU, Peter finds the lab of Dr. Curtis Connors messed up and the Lizard leaves the lab, Peter gets in his Spidey duds and follows the Lizard in the sewers. Spider-Man reaches the Lizard and battles him but he loses the man-reptile in the sewers so he goes to search for him later.

Leaving campus, Peter gets a lift by Harry Osborn the New Goblin and they engage in aerial combat, Peter knocks Harry down then sends him to a hospital where he gets treatment.

The Scorpion releases Rhino from an armored truck but he falls unconscious and gets transported back to MegaBioCon for further works for his engineering Dr. Stillwell(a woman, not Farley Stillwell). Spider-Man flies to MegaBioCon in Governors island to find Scorpion but he had to escape and find Scorpion in another MegaBioCon facility in Manhattan. Spidey fights the mind controlled Scorpion in the facility then Spider-Man chases Gargan through the city to the bridge with the mind controlling device and sets Scorpion free from mind control, but Scorpion still has business to do with M.B.C and both arachnids will meet later to do the job.

Spider-Man saves a Chinese artifact collector named Chen and helps him transport his statues safely to a warehouse stopping the Dragon Tails from holding possession of them.

Later after Spider-Man defeats Luke Carlyle and saved the city from his boms, after cleaning the police station from dirty cops and helping the injured Captain Jeanne DeWolfe, Peter is having a nightmare and gets possessed by the alien symbiote and finds himself upside down from a webline feeling extra powers. Sandman is back from a robbery and Spider-Man fights him in the subway and wets him up defeating him entirely.

Kraven the Hunter plans to hunt Spider-Man and he gets what he wants in the sewers after defeating the Lizard and almost killing him, Spider-Man engages in battle and Calypso chased after the Lizard that turned huge and completely mindless, Spider-Man defeats him and gets him electrocuted on the trailroads returning to Dr. Connors with Spider-Man worried that he almost killed him.

Chen's statues finally got robbed by the Dragon Tails, Spider-Man finds their hideout and battles a group of them then he fights their boss warning Mr. Chen from making another mess.

Saving a librarian and dinosaur skeletons from a bunch of Arsenic Candy girls Spider-Man finds a wedding card and he attends to it in an abandoned church. Spider-Man objects on the marriage, battles the Arsenic Candy clan, saves the groom and defeats their gang leader.

Jonah send Peter to the courthouse to take pictures of the chief of police and the captured gangs superiors, after shooting the photo's Peter takes pictures of the Kingpin. Spider-Man battles the Kingpin minions from the three gangs and heads back to the Bugle where Peter takes the address of the Kingpins home. In the house of the Kingpin Spider-Man battles the Kingpin and gets his head banged (Spider-Man's) hard to walls, Wilson leaves Spider-Man with the released gang superiorsm, defeat them then punches kingpin hard and throwing him out of the window of his penthouse.

Spidey gives Mary Jane a frightening ride home after upsetting her in the restaurant, Peter decides to ditch the symbiote in a church bell tower and there he gets witnessed by Eddie Brock from below. The symbiote feels the hate Eddie has after what Spider-Man did to him and bonds with him turning to Venom.

Spider-Man later visits Dr. Connors in the hospital and learns where to get antidote samples for the Lizard serum to use on the victims of the lizard serum. In the university lab, Dr. Connors give Spider-Man the serum to place it in dispensers in the sewers to save the lizard men.

Spider-Man goes to Scorpion and they head to MegaBioCon where they save the one who was nice to Scorpion and defeat Rhino, Scorpion learns he's a freak and Dr. Jessica Andrews is told by Spider-Man to stop doing such experiments.

Eddie goes to Sandman and threatens him: Either he helps in killing Spider-Man or his daughter Penny dies, grievingly Sandman accepts and Brock kidnaps Mary Jane in a Cab and hangs her on a construction site. Spider-Man battles Venom and Harry Battles Sandman, after Harry defeated Sandman he went to save his friend but got killed by Venom, Spider-Man kills Venom by letting him fall onto spiked bars.

• Vicarious Vision Edition: PS2, Nintendo Wii, PSP*

After returning MJ home from their date in Central Park, Harry engages with Peter in aerial combat and loses. Peter takes Harry to the Hospital then goes home.

Afterwards, Peter is bonded with the symbiote while sleeping. Using the new black suit, he fights the Apocalypse group.

Later, he finds that Dr. Curt Connors has been turned into a lizard and Spider-Man then chases him through the sewers but the Lizard escapes the sewers.

He then finds Kraven in the sewers and he chases him before leaving the giant drill that almost squashed Spider-Man.

Then Luke Carlyle kidnaps J. Jonah Jameson but Spider-Man destroys his helicopter and disarms his Mega-Bomb and then saves J. Jonah Jameson.

Then Spider-Man goes looking for the Lizard again, he fights and cages Kraven and finds that the Lizard is now the Mega-Lizard he then defeats the Mega-Lizard and he becomes Dr. Curt Connors again.

In the Lab at ESU while Spider-Man took his turn in studying the alien to figure its nature when Dr.Connors was dizzy he heard a sceram, a lady was about to have her blood sucked from her neck by the vampire Spider-Man took his photo in an earlier time. Spider-Man defeats Morbius then takes him to Dr. Connor's lab where he knows who the vampire really is, Spidey must find the wife of Morbius.

Spider-Man finds Shriek (Frances Louise Barrison-Morbius) causing chaos on the street and he stops her. He later figures the location of her hideout and takes Morbius there. Shriek forces Morbius to fight Spidey but Spidey defeats him by repeatedly exposing to the sun rays. Spider-Man defeats Shriek and she returns Morbius to his human self(he looks like the Prince of Persia). In Dr. Connor's ESU lab, Morbius begs them to save his wife and Connors warns Spider-Man about the danger of the alien.

Jameson hands Peter and Brock a challenge to get photo's of the black suited Spider-Man terrorizing the people, Brock wears a black Spider-Man suit and goes mugging people but Spider-Man stops him and Brock gets fired from the Bugle.

Peter walks the street and two armed truck guards reading the paper talk about the danger of the black Spider-Man, Sandman attacks the car and heads with his loot to the subway, he gets chased by Spider-Man and thrown down, Spider-Man puts on the black suit and battles the Sandman then he wets him up, which drowns him.

On a date, Peter snaps at Mary-Jane and alienates her. He does so but the power of the black suit scares her and she breaks up with him. Peter realizes that the Black Suit is doing something to him and decides to take it off. With the sound of a church bell the symbiote comes off Peter and it bonds with Eddie.

Sandman then teams up with Venom to kill Spider-Man.

Then Venom and Sandman kidnap MJ and bring her to a construction site. Spider-Man arrives to save her and shortly afterwards, Harry arrives to help him. Harry saves Mary Jane and defeats the oversized Sandman. Venom kills Harry and after a last fight between Spider-Man and Venom, Venom is supposedly killed by the suit's power.

• Ending: Shared by Both developers*

Spidey & MJ are reunited, Sandman and his daughter are reunited and Spider-Man reminds himself that always with great powers comes great responsibility, his job to the city is never done. Then, Sandman destroys an armored car then Spider-Man shows up and Sandman throws the armored car at a crane then the crane twists round smashing a building and endangering lots of people.

[edit] Gameplay

Many gameplay elements have been added and revised for this title in the series:^[2]

• Manhattan is much bigger than in Spider-Man 2, and the game features over 20 miles (32 km) of sewers and subways, although only in the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions of the game.
• Spider-Man has a brand new combat system that was worked from the ground up and includes more aerial moves and web attacks. The 360/PC/PS3 versions of the game feature more moves than the PS2/Wii/PSP versions of the game. For the Wii, the motion sensors are used during combat: the Wii Remote is used as Spider-Man's fists and the Nunchuk is used to dodge attacks.
• In the Wii version, the motion sensors are also used for web-slinging as well as combat. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk are used as Spidey's right and left hands respectively. It is possible to switch to a left-handed mode, so that the Wii Remote is used as Spidey's left hand, in the options menu.
• Part of the game puts the player in control of the Black-Suited Spider-Man where Spider-Man's combat system has more brutal moves and a "Rage" system that allows for more aggressive moves.
• The game features cineractives that are button sensitive. Game director Chris Archer explained that all the gameplay is playable, including what would be included as a cinematic.
• The Nintendo DS version has a 100% touch screen combat system with only the d-pad being used for moving Spider-Man.
• Spider-Man can access his camera anytime he wants.
• Has 4 unlockable characters, Which are: Spider-Man, Black-Suited Spider-Man, Scorpion (mini game), New Goblin (final battle, gameplay in the Collector's Edition and Xbox live downloadable content), Peter Parker
• Nearly all moves can now be charged to increase power.
• The PS2/PSP/Wii allows the player to switch between red and black suit.
• The following villains appear in all versions :

-Venom -Sandman -New Goblin -Lizard

• The bonus villains are :

-Scorpion, Rhino ,Kingpin ( PS3/ XBOX 360 / PC ) -Lucas Carlyle the Mad Bomber , Kraven (PS3 / XBOX 360 / PC / PS2 / PSP / Wii -Michael Morbius , Shriek (PS2/PSP/Wii) -Electro ( Game Boy Advance /Nintendo DS )

[edit] Development

Video game magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly was slated to have a worldwide exclusive story on the game for its October 2006 issue, going so far as to promote the exclusive in the previous issue. The issue instead shipped with a Guitar Hero II lead story, and a note from the Editor-in-Chief Dan Hsu stating that readers should "blame director Sam Raimi" for the change in content. A similar story was instead featured in the April 2007 issue of Game Informer.

Spider-Man 3 has been released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, Playstation Portable, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Treyarch developed the PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 version of the game, and Beenox ported this version of the game to PC. The remaining versions of the game were developed by Vicarious Visions.

[edit] Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

A shot of Spider-Man, now Black-Suited Spider-Man by the alien symbiote.

Treyarch developed the game for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The PC version is the direct port of the Xbox 360 version developed by Beenox. These versions differ from those developed by Vicarious Visions because players cannot change into the Black Suit at will. Instead, you'll change into the Black Suit at a certain point in the storyline. Players can switch in and out of the Black Suit once they complete the game. Activision also released Spider-Man 3: Collector's Edition for the PS3, which includes webisodes, an interview with the movie's producer, a Lenticular card, and the exclusive ability to play as the New Goblin outside of a brief sequence at the end of game. The PC has the exclusive availability to be modified as many other PC games are, although very few mods have been released by anyone as of yet aside from a modded Black Suit Costume found on Marvelmods.com. Scorpion, Rhino, and Kingpin are exclusive villains to this version. Also this version is noticeably more violent than the last-gen consoles and Wii version. This is because of more violent moves by Spider Man and noticeable blood from the Lizard in the sewers. Also the PS3 Collector's Edition features New Goblin as a playable character, though he became downloadable on the PlayStation Network in early July 2007 and downloadable on the Xbox Live Marketplace on October 2007 and is shortly playable on the PC version. These versions received better reviews than the other versions and featured a much better combat system, a better looking city and a larger story line. Players are also able to swing freely and enter the Bugle for assignments like in Spider-Man 2 the Game. However, there are only 5 photo missions. The game villains include : Kraven, Calypso (you do not fight her), New Goblin, Sandman, Venom, Scorpion, Lizard, Rhino, and the Kingpin.

[edit] PlayStation 2, PSP, Wii

A shot of Black-Suited Spider-Man in the burning building.

Vicarious Visions developed the game for the Wii, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable. The game follows the movie but has different side missions when compared to the Treyarch versions. Vicarious Visions allows players to switch between the red and black suit at will, although using the black suit has negative consequences. To get the black suit off you have to use motion/button sequences. These versions include two exclusive villains: Morbius, the Living Vampire, and Shriek. GameStop/EB Games exclusively carry Spider-Man 3: Special Edition for the PS2 which includes: a bonus DVD featuring "Spider-Man 3: The Story Behind the Web", an exclusive interview with Stan Lee, the Spider-Man 3 movie trailers, and a collectible lenticular card with an image from the movie. Otherwise, the PS2 and Wii versions are largely the same, although the Wii version does utilize the Wii Remote's motion sensor controls for swinging and combat. The PlayStation Portable version is a full port of the PlayStation 2 version of the game by Vicarious Visions and features a free-roaming city, Morbius and Shriek, plus the black suit . It is unlike Spider-Man 2 on PlayStation Portable, which was restricted to small areas, similar to the original Spider-Man. The PSP version has been released in the USA on November 1, 2007 alongside the Spider-Man 3 home video on Blu-ray release. The game was released on October 26, 2007 in the UK. The game has received generally positive reviews since its release.

[edit] Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS

Spider-Man 3 was developed for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Vicarious Visions developed these versions of the game. Both versions are similar to previous Spider-Man games on their respective platforms but are loosely based on the third movie and feature the black suit. Electro is an exclusive villain in these versions.

[edit] Reception

Spider-Man 3 had above average reviews on the Xbox 360, PC, Wii, PS2 and PS3 according to Metacritic. On Game Rankings, these versions average between 53% and 67%. The key criticism for these versions is the game's similarity to its predecessor. The PC version has been additionally criticized for its high minimum system requirements and 30 frame/s framerate cap but received better reviews than the PS2, and Wii versions due to it being similar to the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game. The Wii and PS2 versions has been criticized for a short story mode and disappointing graphics, with gamesradar suggesting that they were technically inferior to the preceding game from 2004. The Wii version has however been praised for the use of the Remote and Nunchuk in its gameplay, which is considered to be the Wii version's strongest point. The Xbox 360, PC and PS3 versions, despite receiving only average reviews, have been universally better received than the PS2 and Wii versions. The Wii version was given a "D" grade by The Wiire. X-Play gave the Wii version a 3 out of 5 (the first Wii game to get a 3 out of 5) and the PS3 version a 3 out of 5. The game was also criticized for not being the same version on each system. Some criticism has surfaced due to having New Goblin only fully playable in the PS3 and Xbox 360. It was also criticized for having a lot of glitches.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Website from the developers of the game with IM icons, wallpapers and news about the game.
• Activision Official Website
• The official Wii version site
• Spider-Man 3 at the Internet Movie Database
• Spider-Man 3 at MobyGames
• Spider-Man 3 (Special Edition) at MobyGames