Spider-Man 2

The console version of Spider-Man 2 is a third-person action-adventure set in an open world based on New York City — spanning Manhattan, Roosevelt Island, Ellis Island, and Liberty Island. Players take on the role of Spider-Man, completing linear missions to advance a story told across multiple chapters, each with its own objectives, such as buying upgrades or earning a set number of hero points. Those points come from side missions handed out by random pedestrians across the map — battling criminals, stopping speeding cars, rushing the injured to the hospital, or saving construction workers from a deadly fall — with each chapter also featuring at least one mission tied to the main plot. Players can web-swing, scale walls, and fight foes with a variety of combos, even using Spider-Man's "spider-sense" to slow time and dodge incoming attacks, including gunfire. The game was considered groundbreaking for its physics-based web-swinging, which simulated Spider-Man's movement through the city in three dimensions for a feel unlike the simple jumping or flying of earlier games, and for its more demanding combat of carefully timed strikes and dodges. Clearing the main story unlocks a bonus warehouse mode, where players battle waves of enemies and bosses — plus an exclusive villain, Calypso.