Ultimate Spider-Man (video game)
| Ultimate Spider-Man | |
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| Developer(s) | Treyarch |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Distributor(s) | Marvel Entertainment |
| Director(s) |
Brian Michael Bendis Christopher A. Busse |
| Producer(s) | Jonathan Zamkoff |
| Designer(s) | Brian Reed |
| Programmer(s) | Charles Tolman Joseph I. Valenzuela |
| Artist(s) | Chris Soares |
| Writer(s) | Brian Michael Bendis |
| Composer(s) | Kevin Manthei |
| Platform(s) | Nintendo DS, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, Game Boy Advance |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Beat 'em up |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (Xbox) 76.61% (PS2) 75.74% (GC) 75.41% (DS) 75.11% (GBA) 74.58% (PC) 62.67% |
| Metacritic | (PS2) 78/100 (Xbox) 77/100 (GC) 76/100 (DS) 75/100 (GBA) 74/100 (PC) 62/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Edge | 5/10 |
| Eurogamer | 6/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GamePro |   |
| Game Revolution | C |
| GameSpot | 7.1/10 (PC) 7/10 |
| GameSpy |
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| GameTrailers | 8.9/10 |
| GameZone | (PS2) 8.4/10 (DS) 8.3/10 (GC) 8/10 (PC) 7.8/10 (Xbox) 7.4/10 |
| IGN | 8.4/10 (PS2) 8.3/10 (DS) 8/10 |
| Nintendo Power | (GC) 9/10 (DS) 6.5/10 (GBA) 6/10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| OXM (US) | 6.4/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | 81% |
| CiN Weekly | 88/100 |
| The Sydney Morning Herald | |
Ultimate Spider-Man is a 2005 video game by Activision, based on the comic book of the same name by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. The game was released on most sixth generation consoles, including Nintendo DS, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows and Game Boy Advance. Treyarch, who made the console games based on Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy, developed the console game, while Vicarious Visions developed the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions, and Beenox ported the Microsoft Windows version from the consoles.
The game begins with a recap of Spider-Man (Peter Parker) explaining how his and Eddie Brock's fathers worked together to find a cure for cancer. After signing a contract with Trask Industries, they lost ownership of "the suit," which was the only one made and remained incomplete. This "Venom" suit would be capable of healing the wearer. The dangerous and incomplete Venom suit is kept by Trask Industries after Eddie Brock Sr. and Richard Parker perish.
Years later, Eddie Brock Jr. and Peter Parker reunite and discover the Venom suit is their inheritance. After finding out the way his dad had been cheated by Trask Industries, Spider-Man breaks into the vault containing the Venom suit and is covered by a portion of it, creating his black suit. It enhanced his superhuman abilities to new levels, but the suit tried consuming him and ultimately left him drained by the experience. Eddie later finds out what Peter did and his secret identity, taking the rest of the Venom suit for himself, imbuing himself with an incomplete and monstrous Venom symbiote, lacking the white spider symbol on his chest. They confront each other on Midtown High School's football field on a rainy night, before spanning to the middle of a street where Venom was believed to be killed by a downed, live power line after police intervenes. Adrian Toomes witnesses this confrontation from inside a laundromat, contacting someone and informing them of the presence of the Venom suit.
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