


Otto Octavius, becomes the diabolical villain Doctor Octopus after an accident, Spider-Man must stop him from recreating a dangerous fusion power experiment. Set two years after the events of Spider-Man, the game finds Peter Parker struggling to manage both his personal life and his duties as Spider-Man. The Treyarch-developed versions are considered a landmark title in the industry for being the first superhero video game to incorporate a full open world design.Īll versions of the game closely follow the film's plot, but expand upon it by including scenes and characters that do not appear in the movie. Published by Activision, the console versions were developed by Treyarch, while the others had different developers and are drastically different as a result.

A tie-in game, titled Spider-Man 2: Activity Center, was also released in June 2004. The Game Boy Advance version, developed by Digital Eclipse, was re-released on a twin pack cartridge and bundled with that system's version of the 2002 Spider-Man game in 2005. A PlayStation Portable version was released almost one year later, on March 23, 2005. It was released on Jfor the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Microsoft Windows, and Game Boy Advance, followed by N-Gage and Nintendo DS versions, both released later in the same year. The game is the sequel to 2002's Spider-Man, itself based on the 2002 film of the same name. Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 action-adventure game based on the 2004 film of the same name. For the similarly-named 2023 video game, see Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
