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Ultimate Spider-Man (video game)

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Synopsis

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 re assumed his normal life and has forgotten about Eddie who is actually alive and has been feeding on people randomly in a nearby park and proves his strength in a fight with Wolverine, who was the owner of a motorbike Venom threw through a bar.

After a fight with a second version of 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.

Kept imprisoned in an energy cage, Bolivar Trask and Adrian Toomes convince Eddie to test the Suit for them as they knew Eddie and Peter's parents. His first test is going up against the recently escaped Electro where they fight over a knocked out Spider-Man in Times Square. S.H.I.E.L.D. interferes and Venom escapes, yet he goes back to Trask where he reveals to Silver Sable that Peter Parker is Spider-Man. He then transforms and is chased away by the Wild Pack.

Meanwhile, a Latverian Mercenary who calls himself the Beetle attacks New York by freeing the Green Goblin who Spider-Man defeats, and chasing Venom for a sample of the Suit, yet Venom eventually defeats him. Silver Sable then fires a tranquilizer at Peter Parker and tries to bring him to Trask yet Peter awakens and they fight above the Queensboro Bridge before Venom appears and knocks Sable out. Spider-Man and Venom fight yet both go down due to Spider-Man knocking Eddie out and the tranquilizer that Silver Sable fired at Peter take effect.

Eddie awakens inside Trask Industries due to hearing Peter screaming as Toomes injected him with their own makeshift sample of the Venom Suit, transforming him into Carnage. Venom then absorbs Carnage and spits Peter out again. The combination of the Carnage Suit and the leftover Venom samples in Peter's blood, Eddie believes he now has complete control over the Suit (along with the white spider-symbol that appeared on Peter's version when he transformed). Trask finally gives Peter files on their parents yet takes them while trying to flee from an angry Venom yet he does not know how to fly the helicopter and his contract with Silver Sable has expired. Venom is eventually defeated but escapes.

As S.H.I.E.L.D. arrive, Peter reads the files and discovers that the reason for their parents' plane crash was due to Eddie Brock Sr. trying on the Venom Suit onboard. There were only 3 survivors and one of the witnesses was Peter's mother who died in the ambulance. Eddie is distraught that after all Trask made him do, all he got was 3 years in a golf course prison, so he transforms and kills him. Peter then confesses to Mary Jane Watson that he knows Eddie is alive and a prisoner in the Suit.

Cast

  • Additional Voices: Sheryl Bernstein, Phil Buckman, Joey Camen, Larry Cedar, Vince Corazza, J. D. Cullum, Christopher Curry, Mark Deakins, John DiMaggio, Bart Flynn, Margit Furseth, Chris Hatfield, Nick Jameson, John Kassir, Danny Mann, Danny Marcus, James C. Mathis III, Jim Meskimen, Rene Moreno, Angela Shelton, Jason Spisak, Terrence Stone, Jessica Straus, Vernon Wells, and Dave Wittenberg

Limited Edition[]

Ultimate Spider-Man (video game) Limited Edition

There is a limited edition exclusive to the PlayStation 2, which contains four character biographies (Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Venom, Ultimate Carnage, and Ultimate Beetle), an interview with Stan Lee, a G4 special entitled "Making of Ultimate Spider-Man", Developer tips and tricks, and a special edition comic Ultimate Spider-Man: Activision Edition #1 containing scenes from issues 33-39.

The limited edition version comes in a different case sporting plain purple and red holographic sides. (With a Venom symbol and Spider-Man symbol on each, respectively.) The case also comes with a cardboard sleeve with a picture of Venom on it. The DVD surface itself has a new picture on it: purple instead of red, once again with Venom. The instruction manual matches this trend with the cover being a fight scene between the two. The limited edition features are accessed from a new menu titled 'Limited Edition' via the Unlockables screen.

Notes

Ultimate Spider-Man is a game based on the comic book of the same name by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley. The game was released for multi-platform, including PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance, and Microsoft Windows as well as a mobile phone game. Treyarch, who made the console games based on the Spider-Man movies, developed the console game, while Vicarious Visions developed the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions and Beenox ported the Microsoft Windows version from consoles.

Stylistically, it differs from its predecessor, Spider-Man 2, in that it employs what has been dubbed Comic Inking Animation technology, a form of cel shading intended to make the game appear as if it were a living comic-book.

  • The storyline of the game is semi-canonical to the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. The story arc "War of the Symbiotes" is based on the script of the game.

Inconsistencies[]

The game was considered canon prior to the publishing of the War of the Symbiotes storyline, which loosely adapted the video game's events into the comic, as well as happening in the same time frame (a few months after the "Venom" story arc). Prior to this, there were several inconsistencies which made placing the game in the timeline difficult:

  • Peter's house is located in a busy neighborhood, while in the comics, it seems more quiet and more secluded. Peter also doesn't have a neighbor on the side of his house where his basement door is located.
  • Midtown High School had a smaller lawn than in the comics, and appears to be located on a busy street in the game.
  • Electro never mentions Peter by name even though Parker's identity was revealed in Ultimate Six.
  • Gwen Stacy is not mentioned in the game at all despite being a key person in the comics. However, she is most probably dead by this time, having been consumed by Carnage.
  • When the Carnage creature appears in the comics, Peter apparently has no idea where it's from (other than Curt Conners meddling with his DNA) and has no recollection of him ever being behind it.
  • In the game, Carnage was depicted as a self-regenerative creature, while in the comics, it needs a supply of food to keep it alive. It is interesting to note that the Carnage featured in the game is a boosted form of the Venom Suit rather than a vampiric organism.
  • The Beetle has not been seen in the game or comics after he hides in the Latverian Embassy.
  • It is unknown why Kraven the Hunter's billboards are still up, since he has been apprehended by S.H.I.E.L.D.

Trivia

  • The first boss battle of the game is adapted from Ultimate Spider-Man #38.
  • This is the second Spider-Man video game to feature open world exploration, following Spider-Man 2.
  • A sequel of the game was planned by a smaller team of developers within Treyarch. The game would've featured a brand new storyline, a somewhat smaller section of New York City to explore to and the antagonist being centered on the Green Goblin, though it is unknown if he would've been playable like Venom. The setting was supposed to have been set in winter times with NYC being covered in snow as seen in this official concept art, illustrated by Ian Hosfeld as it was the only asset made for the game that survived during development. Brian Michael Bendis was also to return as the writer of the story, however prior to its cancellation, the story and treatment was later integrated into the Death of a Goblin story arc for the Ultimate Spider-Man comics. The reason for the cancellation of the sequel, it was due to the game not selling as much as the Spider-Man 2 movie game and Activision having no interest in greenlight the project any further.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Originally, Brian Michael Bendis specifically wrote the game to fit in with Ultimate Spider-Man continuity, however, over time, the game no longer fit with the rest of the series, as evidenced here.
  2. ↑ https://youtu.be/3EvAoSWKDGQ?t=249
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