Ultimate Spider-Man is a 2005 action-adventure based on the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. It was released across sixth-generation consoles, handhelds, and Windows.
In Ultimate Spider-Man the player can experience a free-roaming city environment that covers Manhattan and Queens. The player starts in story-mode where the game automatically switches between Spider-Man and Venom at set points. Spider-Man travels by web swinging, and attacks using acrobatic attacks, and can restore health lost in combat by red health pick-ups dropped by defeated enemies. Venom travels by using his tentacles to pull himself and by performing massive jumps. Venom attacks using his claws and tentacles, can also throw cars at targets. Due to Eddie Brock's incomplete control over the symbiote transformation leading to insatiable hunger, Venom's health gauge is initially impermanent and drains over time. As his gameplay sections do not feature health pick-ups as Spider-Man's do, Venom must replenish his health by feeding on people. When playing as either character, the player must manually aim and shoot a web at an actual building to swing, much like its previous game, Spider-Man 2.
As the game progresses, Parker/Spider-Man and the player will have certain City Goals to accomplish in order to continue the storyline or can simply roam the open world city.
There are additional activities throughout the game such as finding secret tokens, landmark tokens, comic book covers and competing in trick races.
The game starts with a recap of what happened in the Venom storyline and Peter Parker's first fight with Venom before he disappeared, which had Peter and Venom fight from the high school football field on a rainy night and then the battle spans over to the middle of a street where Venom is believed to be killed by a downed, live power line in Peter's point of view.
Three months later, Peter Parker has resumed his normal life and has forgotten about Eddie, who is actually alive and has been feeding on people randomly in a nearby park. Eddie gets into a fight with Wolverine, who was the owner of a motorbike Venom threw through a bar.
After a fight with the R.H.I.N.O., Spider-Man gets his first foreshadowing of Eddie returning when his Spider-Sense overloads. That night, Silver Sable and her Wild Pack attack Venom who easily escapes. During a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Peter gets his "Eddie headaches" again and fights his former friend on the roof. However, Venom is later captured by Silver Sable.
Ultimate Spider-Man is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
How to play on Windows
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