Spider-Man (2002 video game)

Spider-Man (also known as Spider-Man: The Movie) is a 2002 action-adventure video game based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Made to promote of the movie of the same name, it was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and Game Boy Advance on April 16, 2002 in North America (two weeks before the film's release), and June 7 in Europe. The Game Boy Advance version was later re-released and bundled on Twin Pack cartridge with Spider-Man 2: The Game in 2005. While the game directly adapts the plot of the movie it is based on, it also builds upon it by including scenes and villains not appear in the movie. Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe reprise their roles from the movie , as Spider-Man and the Green Goblin, respectively, while Bruce Campbell, who played a wrestling ring announcer in the movie, narrates the game's tutorial and bonus levels.
The game was published by Activision in North America and co-published by Capcom in Japan. It was primarily developed by Activision's then recently-acquired subsidiary, Treyarch, who had previously ported Neversoft's 2000 Spider-Man video game to Windows and Dreamcast. Upon release, it received generally positive reviews, although some criticized its length, voice acting, and camera control, and quickly became a best-seller. After the game's success, Treyarch became the lead developer of all major Spider-Man titles published under Activision until 2008, including two sequels Spider-Man 2, the video game based on the 2004 movie of the same name, and Spider-Man 3, the video game based on the 2007 movie of the same name.
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