As the amazing Spider-Man you do many amazing Spider-Things like saving the day, fighting villians and crawling walls.
How does this SM is different from the others? It`s 3D, filled with spider-licious action and pretty interesting story, which involves alot of popular Marvel characters - Spider-Man himself [duh], Black Cat, Daredevil, Punisher, Rhino, Dock Ock, Venom and Carnage. Peter Parker in a science conference, which presents a new super-duper high-tech something, sees an unbelievable sight - Spider-Man steals the device. Later Eddie Brock [who was there too] transforms into Venom and starts ruining Peter`s life. Later Spider-Man [the real one] finds out what really happened and reveals a conspiracy who he ultimately foils.
Gameplay? Good. You can beat your opponents with martial arts or web skills - warp your enemy in web, shoot web balls, use web lasso which pulls your enemy to left or right [good in corridors on roofs] or towards our hero, who gives an amazing head kick. Also you can web sling, walk at [almost] any surfaces, what gives some taste of stealth action - why walk suicidal towards an agressive folk if you can crawl on wall and suddenly strike out of ,literally, empty air? Also, every boss has a special strategy to be defeated [tough, mostly it`s like `turn off forcefield and hit dat bastard` or `stun him and beat da crap out of `im`. But nothing stands to ,probably, the best level in the game - Spidey is chased by a police copter over the city. Simply awesome.
Graphics are good, especially animations, voice acting is decent, but the music is boring. But you probably won`t pay attention to it because of the exciting gameplay.
In the end Spider-Man is worth your time, and it`s probably the best in the whole series, if not the sequel, Spider-Man 2, Enter Electro...