The RetroBeat: Remembering 2000’s big Spider-Man game

We’re just a few weeks away from the release of a new Spider-Man game, which will be a PlayStation 4 exclusive when it launches on September 4. Having played some of Insomniac’s open-world superhero game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this year, I’m pumped to play the rest of it.

But before that, I’m feeling a bit nostalgic (which, to be fair, is kinda how I always feel). I’m thinking about a Spider-Man game from the past. And no, I’m not talking about 2004’s Spider-Man 2. That movie-based game is the first to put the web-slinger in an open world, and its swinging mechanics still feel great. But I’m going back just a bit further, before Spider-Man became a movie star. I’m talking about a game simply called Spider-Man, which came out for the PlayStation in 2000, with other versions following for Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and PC.