User Rating: 6 | Spider-Man 2: The Game PC
After months of waiting for Spiderman 2, the game, having seen the ads on net and TV alike for spinning my way across New York city, in a freeform game where one can swing from one end of the city to another and encounter crimes and accidents taking place. A game in which one can swing from any surface and hitch rides on helicopters with Spidey's web slinging prowess. Found the game a day before release date for $20 less than expected at Circuit City, snagged it, took it home and now feel I been lied to. The game released on the PC falls miles short of the game advertised. You must swing from little web targets and not from any surface available. There are no random crimes in progress. There is free form swinging from edge of city to edge of city. Infact, it's a few zones, with load points between them and messages that you have no reason to go that way when you attempt to go off the edges of the map at some points. Similarly, there is no advanced web swinging combat, throwing villains around, or eye-widenning stunts. What there is is punching, webbing thuggie's weapons from their hands, as well as the occasional web in the eyes or body wrap, which just gives you a little more time to slug 'em before they get free. The only redeeming quality of the game I was sold is the web-zipping, where one can aim at many surfaces, fire the web and then zip up or down the web to the point where one aimed. In all, the graphics are pretty typical, sound work is a little cheap, with good quality voice-overs layed out in a cheap fashion with poor timing and cinematecs that are no less than a second off from their accompanied audio-tracks. Majorly disappointed after finishing the storyline of the game in 4 hours. I'd recommend that no one other than the most hardcore Spidey fan purchase the PC version of this game, and with enough others sharing my view would gladly launch a civil law suite against Activision for false advertising and to demand my money back. 
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