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Spider-Man 3
Developed by: Treyarch (Xbox 360, PS3)
Viscarious Visions (Wii, PS2, PSP, Nintendo DS, GBA, Xbox, (Cancelled) GameCube (Cancelled)
Beenox (PC)
Released by: Activision
Release Date: {{{release date}}}

Available on:

Xbox 360
PlayStation 3
Microsoft Windows
Wii
PlayStation 2
Nintendo DS
Gameboy Advance
PlayStation Portable
Mobile Phones
Xbox (Cancelled)
GameCube (Cancelled)

Mode(s):

Single-player

ESRB Rating:

T for Teen

Predecessor:

Spider-Man 2

Sequel:

Spider-Man 4 (video game)

Spider-Man 3 is an action game that loosely follows the plot of the film, Spider-Man 3. It was released on May 4th, 2007. It was made by Activision and was released for PC, PS2, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360, Wii, and mobile phones.

It was also released for GBA, and Nintendo DS. A PSP version was released on October 17th, 2007. The PS2, PSP, GBA Nintendo DS & Wii versions were developed by Vicarious Visions while the Microsoft Windows version was developed by Beenox and the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions were developed by Treyarch.

The PS3 version was released on May 4th, 2007, delayed in Europe on May 8th, 2007, and also delayed in Australia on September 20th, 2007.

The game's plot expands on the film by including additional characters and elements from the Spider-Man comic books and the Marvel Universe.

Depending on the platform, different villains from the comics are featured, but all versions of the game feature the film's main villains: New Goblin, Sandman, and Venom.

Plot[]

For Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man, life has been going good, but he has some problems, like Eddie Brock. Harry Osborn won't talk to him and new gangs have moved into the city. He realizes there haven't been any super villains since Doc Ock's death. Meanwhile, the symbiote falls on the earth looking for a host.

Spider-Man goes to a building which the Mad Bomber's recruits are trying to blow up. After getting rid of the bombs, he finds out there's one more, but he can not reach it. He finds a lady who's was taken a hostage and left there but just as the building is about to explode, he runs out, grabs the woman and swings away just as the top of the building explodes.

PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows[]

Later, after Spider-Man takes pictures of giant Lizards in the park for Bugle he finds the 3 gangs and after ruining some of their plans Spider-Man comes face to face with the Apocalypse leader, having to fight and beat him and then take him into custody. He takes Mary Jane out to date in the park, where they talk about how Harry won't talk to Peter because he knows Peter is Spider-Man and he thinks Spider-Man killed his father, but Mary Jane says Harry has to know inside that his best friend would never do that and while they're talking, the Symbiote crawls onto Peter's shoe without him noticing. Meanwhile, in the Osborn mansion, Harry inhales on purpose some of the goblin formulae and becomes the New Goblin. When Peter at the bugle goes to ask what his boss J. Jonah Jameson wants him to take pictures of and tells him that Spider-Man caused the building the Mad Bomber was trying to destroy to burn up. The Mad Bomber threatens Jonah on the phone that he's going to blow up the subways then destroy the city. Fortunately, Peter hears his threats, changes into Spider-Man and heads to the subways. He is able to get rid of all the bombs, but he then sees a train by itself with no one driving it, going to crash so he uses his webs to slow it down and stops it. After a while, Spider-Man has to help Jean DeWolfe track down and defeat dirty cops. He manages to defeat a large amount. The dirty cops invite DeWolfe to a meeting, and Spider-Man investigates it. One of the dirty cops shoots DeWolfe and Spider-Man takes all but one out, and then that one takes Dewolfe into a car which he accidentally drives off the docks (the dirty cop manages to jump out before it goes over) and is about to crash into the ocean, but Spider-Man manages to get into the car, grab DeWolfe and swing out of the car before it crashes into the water. Then she tells Spider-Man they stopped the dirty cops and that she'll be all right. As she calls an ambulance, Spider-Man tells her if she needs him, call for help, and swings away. He sets out to find Mr. Chen who the Dragon Tail is after, then after trying to kill him Spider-Man stops them but then one of their copters starts falling when Spider-Man removes the engine and he uses his webs to it just before it was about to hit a young woman. Meanwhile, Mad Bomber sends his recruits to nearly destroy the Daily Bugle but Spider-Man arrives and saves the people at the Bugle. Betty Brant tells him they kidnapped Mr. Jameson. Spider-Man races after the copter, while J. Jonah Jameson finds out that the Mad Bomber is Luke Carlye and that he wants revenge on Jonah for ruining his business because the paper was saying that he was ripping off and people stopped buying stuff from his company. The Mad Bomber puts a shock collar on Jameson and tells him that if Spider-Man rescues him, he will be shocked to death if he gets too far from the copter. Spider-Man sees them throwing Jonah of the copter, and he catches him and Jameson tells him what will happen if they get too far from the copter. So, after a long chase, the bomber tries to kill Spider-Man and Jameson, but Spider-Man beats him and fires his recruits and leaves. Spider-Man gets the collar of Jonah, but he says nothing is different between them. He tries to say thank you, but Spider-Man knows and says You're welcome and swings away.

Later Peter goes to check on Doctor Connors and sees that he's become a giant Lizard. He tells Peter to get out of his apartment. He runs into sewers and Spider-Man decides to go after him. After fighting a bunch of lizards, he finds and knocks out Dr. Connors but he recovers quickly. So, they fight again but he manages to escape. He goes to check on Harry but can't find him at his house, but then Harry as the New Goblin comes and grabs Peter and after fighting in midair on Harry's glider, Peter jumps off and after fighting Harry, he lures him into an alleyway and uses his webs to knock him off his glider. Harry hits his head hard on a wall and a dumpster then falls on the ground. Peter feels remorse and gets Harry to a hospital.

Spider-Man goes to find Scorpion to help him and finds him at Mecha Bio Con and Scorpion under control, runs to the bridge where the machines that control him are. After Spider-Man forcefully uses the Scorpions tail to destroy the machines he fights and destroys the controlling device. Scorpion then wants to get revenge on the Doctor who did this to him, but Spider-Man says they have to wait since they know he would be coming.

Peter and Aunt May find out that Flint Marko killed Peter's uncle. Later at his apartment, Spider-Man is having a nightmare about Flint killing his uncle while the Symbiote crawls onto him and then wakes up only to find the Symbiote covering his face and passes out. Later he wakes up hanging from a web on a building wearing a new Black Suit and says to himself that he feels faster, stronger, and good. He sees Marko robbing a bank and follows him into the subway, where they brutally fight and then Spider-Man uses a large pipe to turn Sandman into the mud, defeating him. Spider-Man finds out that the Arsenic Candy leader is having a wedding and he decides to crash it and knocks out all of the Arsenic Candy girls, fights and easily defeats the leader and takes her into custody. He goes to see Mr. Chen find out why the Dragon Tail wants the artifacts and finds out that they can use a bell to reveal great treasures. Spider-Man angrily yells to Mr. Chen that he could have told him before. Chen didn't tell him because it was a secret. Spider-Man races to the hideout, when Chen says that the police are coming to take the leader into custody. Spider-Man tells Mr. Chen that the police can have what's left after he is done with them, and jumps into the hideout. The leader, with his recruits, hits the bell, which reveals 2 statues to be made of gold and silver, while the noise makes parts of the Black Suit come off, but it quickly reforms itself. Spider-Man knocks out all the recruits then brutally fights the leader, beats him, and takes him into custody. Spider-Man tells Chen he has to keep the bells in a safe place from now on because he's done cleaning up his messes and swings away.

Peter decides to go find Doctor Connors in the sewers and finds Kraven and Calypso about to kill him but Spider-Man distracts Kraven making the Lizard escape. Calypso goes after him leaving Spider-Man to fight Kraven. After fighting, Kraven escapes into a new room and Spider-Man chases him and they fight again, but he hears that Calypso was doing something to Doctor Connors, so Kraven escapes leaving Spider-Man to find Doc Connors. Unfortunately, when Spider-Man finds him, he sees that Doctor Connors has become a Mega Lizard and that when he roars the sound weakens the Black Suit. After beating and wearing him down, Spider-Man smashes him through into an electrical room and Doctor Connors is electrocuted but is still alive and reverted back to a human. Spider_man tells the Doc that his nightmare is over but realizes that the Black Suit is changing him and making him more aggressive.

Peter, now almost completely influenced by the Black Suit starts to flirt a little bit with Betty at the Bugle, who tells him Jonah wants him to go to a court meeting for the 3 gang leaders he put in custody. After it's finished, he gets there when he sees Wilson Fisk A.K.A the Kingpin making the gang's recruits set free causing a riot, which makes Peter angry causing him to lose control of the Black Suit, making beat up all of the recruits left in the building. While he's swinging away he realizes that it's Fisk's fault that he lost control and let those gang leaders free and swears that it's payback time for Fisk. When he gets back to the bugle, he asks Robbie where Fisk lives, and he tells Peter where, but he warns him not to mess with Fisk. Spider-Man swings over and breaks into Kingpin's house and beats up all the recruits and fights Kingpin who throws him into another room where the 3 gang leaders fight him. Spider-Man knocks them all out and gets back to the Kingpin where they fight brutally, but Spider-Man (who is completely influenced by the Black Suit at this moment) throws Kingpin out of the window. Spider-Man realizes what he did and wonders if he survived or not but he says that he's done either way.

Peter sees that Brock is going to get the pictures of Spider-Man doing something bad by using someone wearing a Red Spider-Man Costume. The real Spider-Man comes and (now completely influenced by the Black Suit) punches Brock in the jaw, and scares the guy in the costume away. Brock now has a better picture since he has hidden cameras in the block that took a picture of Spider-Man punching him and he thanks him. Spider-Man takes away all the hidden cameras ruining Brock's picture. While he swings away, Brock swears to get revenge. Later Peter goes on another date with MJ, but ruins it because of his behavior, making MJ want him to take her home. After they get her in front of her apartment building, Peter apologizes to MJ, saying that he doesn't know what got into him. MJ replies that she doesn't know either, then says that she doesn't want to see him again until he works it out. Peter asks MJ if she is breaking up with him, and MJ responds that she just cannot be with him now before leaving. Peter calls out to her, but realizes she's right and that he is now extremely aggressive because of the Black Suit. He realizes he needs to get it off. He uses the church tower to get it off. Brock (who was praying in the church at the time) hears him and looks from at the bottom of the tower to see that Peter is Spider-Man. Spider-Man gets the suit off, and it falls onto Eddie turning him into Venom.

Peter wearing his Red Suit again goes to see Doctor Connors and he says that he created a cure for the lizard mutation. Spider-Man goes into the sewer again and uses the bomb with the antidote and cures all the mutated Lizards. Meanwhile, Eddie finds Sandman and wants him to help him kill Spider-Man. He refuses but Brock says it wasn't a choice, and then he made the Symbiote crawl overturning him into Venom and shows that he webbed and is holding Sandman's daughter, Penny hostage. Eddie says he'll kill her if he doesn't help him so they discuss how they are going to kill Spider-Man.

Later, Spider-Man meets up with Scorpion again and they both break into Mecha Bio Con. The Doctor he's after is holding the woman he loves hostage and makes her assistant Rhino to try and kill them but Spider-Man and Scorpion are able to fight and defeat Rhino. Scorpion threatens her to change him back but as the Doctor releases her hostage, she says she can't and that he's like that forever. As Scorpion yells in anger the doctor escapes and Spider-Man swings away.

Peter goes back to his apartment where he sees on the news that Sandman and Venom have kidnapped MJ and Venom also wrote in a web "Stop us if you can, Spider-Man". Spider-Man swings to the construction site as fast as he can and fights Venom and tries to convince Eddie Brock to get rid of the Symbiote but he doesn't. New Goblin arrives, helping Spider-Man fight a giant Sandman, spraying a lot of water on him so his bombs will hurt him more and finally he defeats him. As Venom is about to kill Peter, Harry knocks Pete away, causing Harry to fall and kill him. Spider-Man yells that Venom won't hurt anyone else now. Venom and Spider-Man fight brutally until Spider-Man lunges at Venom causing them to fall off the building towards some sharp blades. As they fall they try to make the other fall onto the blades but, Spider-Man uses his web to pull himself away as Venom falls onto the blades killing him.

Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Playstation Portable plot[]

The next day, Peter visits the Daily Bugle and has a discussion with J. Jonah Jameson over Spider-Man's role to New York City. However, they are interrupted by a phone call where Luke Carlyle (dubbing himself "The Mad Bomber") reveals he has planted bombs all over the Bugle's Printing Plant. Peter quickly leaves, and, as Spider-Man, he prevents the bombs from detonating. Informed by police that the Bugle's regional office has also got bombs set to detonate, Spider-Man rushes to the location and thwarts that attempt. He picks up a tracking device that shows two members of the H-Bombers carrying bombs and are headed to the regional office. Spider-Man defeats the gang members and heads home.

Peter heads back to the DB the next morning, where Jonah tells him giant lizard-like humanoids are spotted in Central Park. Peter arrives on the scene, and whilst taking pictures of the humanoids, saves civilians caught in their wrath. He returns to the Bugle to give Jonah and Robbie the pictures, much to their delight.

Later that night, Peter meets up with Mary Jane, and they talk about Harry, who's angry at Peter for killing his father. MJ comforts Peter, who tells him the two will work it out. As this is going on, the alien symbiote attaches itself to Peter's shoe. At the Osborn Mansion, Harry steps out of the chamber filled with the Goblin formula and plots his revenge against Peter. After taking MJ home, Harry (now the New Goblin) ambushes Peter. Peter successfully defeats Harry by tricking him into damaging his glider. However, Harry crashes into the alleyways and is unconscious. Peter takes him to a hospital and leaves to return home.

As Peter sleeps, the symbiote bonds onto him, giving him a jet-black suit. It increases Peter's powers, but it also brings out the dark side of him. He tests out the suit during a battle with gang members, and seeing how the suit is quickly tiring him, he returns to the red suit.

The next morning, Spider-Man visits the Daily Bugle, only to see it being bombed by Carlyle and his gang. They take Jonah hostage, with Spider-Man in pursuit. Inside the helicopter, Carlyle puts a collar onto Jonah, and warns him if he's far away from the transmitter, it would electrocute and kill Jonah. He throws Jonah off the copter, and Spider-Man saves him. The battle culminates on a rooftop, with Spider-Man defeating Carlyle and removing the explosive collar from Jonah.

That night, Spider-Man visits the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, who's been reported missing for the past few days. He picks up a video camera, revealing that Connors was testing an experimental serum that will allow his arm to be regenerated with the use of lizard DNA. Whilst it regenerates his arm, Connors is transformed into the Lizard. A grief-stricken Spider-Man is attacked by the Lizard and chases him throughout the city. Lizard evades capture by going into the sewers, with Spider-Man in hot pursuit. As Spider-Man dwells deeper in the sewers, he runs into Kraven, who is killing the infected and seeks to kill Connors. To make sure Spider-Man doesn't get involved, Kraven activates a death trap to kill the wall-crawler. Spider-Man escapes and lands in the Lizard's lair, where he does battle with Connors. After a long fight, Lizard escapes deeper in the sewers, and Spider-Man can't go any further.

Returning to the surface, Spider-Man helps the NYPD crackdown on the Dragon Tail clan to find more info about the whereabouts of Kraven and the Lizard. Successful in the mission, Spider-Man returns to the sewers to see the Lizard has defeated Kraven. As he tries to turn Kraven into a lizard, Spider-Man stops him, but in the process, Kraven wakes up and stabs the Lizard, who reverts to Connors. Upset at this, Kraven turns his attention to Spider-Man. Even with his upgrades, Kraven is defeated by Spider-Man, and the latter leaves to find Connors. He manages to find the doctor, who has injected himself with a much stronger serum, transforming himself into a Giant Lizard. Despite the disadvantage, Spider-Man defeats Connors in such a violent manner that makes the hero realize his black suit may be having a negative impact on him. Spider-Man defeats the remaining of the Lizard's experiments and leaves with Connors.

A fully recovered Connors agrees to help Spider-Man analyze a piece of the symbiote in exchange for Spider-Man saving his life. At the Daily Bugle, Jonah sends Peter to the campus of Empire State University to take a picture of a vampire rumored to be attacking innocents. That night, Peter heads to ESU and takes a picture of the vampire while being attacked. The next night, Spider-Man goes to Connors' lab to analyze the symbiote for himself, pushing off Mary Jane on the phone in the process. As hours passed with no results, screams are heard outside and Spider-Man (under the symbiote's influence) confronts the vampire. As the two battle, sunrise arises, and the vampire is weakened, allowing Spider-Man to defeat him. He takes the vampire to Connors, where Connors reveals the vampire's identity: Dr. Michael Morbius, a world-renowned geneticist. Morbius tells the two his wife is responsible for his transformation. Spider-Man hears chaos amongst the city and confronts Morbius' wife Shriek. As Spider-Man is occupied with the gang members, Shriek commissions an obelisk and plans to control the entire city. Spider-Man thwarts the plan and Shriek escapes.

Spider-Man visits Morbius, who is currently dying. Morbius pleads Connors to take him to see his wife, to which Connors and Spider-Man agree to do. Out on the streets, Spider-Man shifts his focus on the Waste Tribe, where he breaks them down enough to find Shriek's location. Spider-Man takes Morbius to Shriek, where Shriek reveals she caused the accident that transformed him into a vampire. She gives Morbius his strength, but in turn, turning him against Spider-Man. Spider-Man defeats Morbius by exposing him to the windows. Shriek uses psychological warfare against Spider-Man, using illusions of Harry, Connors, Mary Jane, and Jonah. Spider-Man deduces her powers came from the same element that forms his black suit. Using the black suit, Spider-Man overcomes the mind games and defeats Shriek. A weakened Shriek uses the last of her powers to cure Morbius, reverting him back to normal, but leaving her in a comatose state. Morbius and Spider-Man leave her to Connors' care, where Spider-Man vows to control the symbiote.

Peter goes to the Bugle, where Jonah sends him and rival photographer Eddie Brock to expose Spider-Man as a menace, and whoever comes to Jonah first with the pictures, they get the job as the staff photographer. As Spider-Man scares off civilians during the shoot, a police officer informs him that he (Spider-Man) was mugging someone across town. Spider-Man swings to confront the imposter, who is easily beaten and exposed as Brock himself. Back at the Bugle, Peter gets the staff job and Brock is fired for his actions. Before Brock leaves, he swears vengeance against both Peter and Spider-Man.

Peter overhears a conversation between two police officers, who plan to issue a manhunt for Spider-Man over his actions while wearing the black suit. Peter contemplates not wearing the black suit for a little while until things simmer down. Sandman appears and robs an armored van. Peter follows Sandman to the subways, and as Spider-Man, does battle with him. Seeing he is no match for Sandman's powers, Spider-Man reluctantly turns to his black suit, where he is overwhelmed by the suit and violently beats Sandman. Spider-Man bursts open a water pipe, seemingly killing Sandman as the water washes him away.

Under the symbiote's influence, Peter has a date with Mary Jane that goes sour, and as the two argue outside her home, he grabs her arm in an aggressive manner. Mary Jane breaks off the relationship, saddening Peter. Realizing that the symbiote is controlling him more and more, Peter retreats to the bell tower at a nearby church, where the intense sounds of the bell helps Peter remove the symbiote. However, Brock followed him into the church and bonds with the symbiote just as it leaves Peter, transforming Brock into Venom.

Brock finds an alive Sandman at Central Park, where he forces the latter to help him kill Spider-Man, or Sandman's daughter Penny will die on Brock's hands. Peter returns to his apartment, where he suits up in the red suit once again as he goes to save Mary Jane. At the same time, Harry wakes up to hear about the current situation and thinks about his friends. Arriving at the construction site, Peter sees that Brock and Sandman have held Mary Jane captive in a taxi suspended stories high. Brock orders Sandman to kill Peter while he watches. As the battle progresses, Harry arrives and dispatches the Sandman. Brock, revealing Mary Jane, jumps down and attacks Peter and Harry. Peter holds off Brock long enough for Harry to rescue Mary Jane and Sandman's daughter from the falling taxi. Seeing that the girl is in good hands, Brock lies to Sandman about the death of his daughter, infuriating him. Now gigantic, Sandman attempts to kill the two heroes. Harry distracts Sandman whilst Peter throws explosive barrels inside Sandman. As Harry activates a pumpkin bomb to finish off Sandman, Venom pulls Harry into the Sandman, and the bomb explodes, killing Harry and subduing Sandman. Now one on one, Peter and Brock engage in a violent fight. Peter gains the upper hand by using sonic vibrations to weaken Brock and defeats him. Brock loses control of the Venom symbiote and is seemingly dead. Spider-Man then swings to MJ and they both hug showing them getting back together. But Sandman arrives. Sandman and Spider-Man are about to fight until Penny comes running to her father. Then Sandman says that he's sorry and that he didn't want to fight Spider-Man and it was just because Venom said he would kill her if he didn't help. Spider-Man says at least she's safe and that's all that matters. Then as Spider-Man swings to a tall building, he says "It should be a happy ending. I got the girl and brought a family back together, but it's not that easy. Being Spider-Man always comes with a price, and today that price was a steep one. As tough as it gets some days, I have to fight on, and the best way to honor the people I love is to never stop being your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

Gameplay[]

The game retains many of the gameplay elements from the previous game. Among the holdovers from the previous game is the freely explorable Manhattan map, which is larger in area than the one in Spider-Man 2 and Ultimate Spider-Man. However, much like Ultimate Spider-Man, some locations cannot be visited such as the Liberty Statue and there are no helicopters outside missions to travel to far locations.

Exploring of city is more interesting now because Spider-Man can go to underground tunnels. The player can use spider-sense to help him in missions. Plus for the first time ever, players can unleash the power of the Black Suit as it makes Spider-Man faster and stronger than ever before. However, the longer he has it on the more evil he gets and when the sides of the screen turn black you must turn back into the red and blue suit or you will become a super villain. Another thing you can do is collect pieces of meteorite to boost your score and make the game even more fun. When you complete the story mode you can collect blue spiders. Collect them all and you can unlock a new nicer, more powerful version of the Black Suit and also you can replay any boss fight all over again The fighting stages are good as well and you can also upgrade when you complete a mission you are given points that you can spend on upgrades. When you beat a gang and help the city you are once again given points.

Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and, Playstation Portable[]

On the PS2, PSP, Xbox, GameCube, and Wii versions, there is a cheat to unlock all the upgrades but it is hard to find and is a bit rubbish, however, there is also a cheat that allows you to get unlimited Black Suit power you could try. In this version, you can change into the black suit for a limited time until the Rage Meter is at the limit during a story progress. If Rage Meter is at its limit without changing back to original costume, Spider-Man will die permanently as the screen goes black and the game will restart. Removing the black suit to revert back to original costume during a story mode progress must be careful on not to do interaction movement in the near-death black screen. Once the story mode is all complete, with the black suit can be unlocked through finding all meteorites across the city, there are better effects on changing black suit back to original costume without any interaction movement safely, and no longer died in Rage Mode as the meter will deplete to 0 in a few minutes later, which can be refilled to reactivate Rage Mode. The Original Xbox and GameCube versions were going to have that port, but they were never released due to low sales for Xbox and limited resources for GameCube along with Shrek the Third and The Simpsons Game.

Vicarious Visions developed Gamecube, Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PlayStation Portable versions. They had different graphics unlike the Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 and PC version, and especially Spider-Man 2. The players can change into the Black Suit by pressing the directional pad on the controllers including the Wii Remote. The only thing in these 5 versions, players cannot go under the ground such as the subways or enter buildings.

PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows[]

Like many other PC games, the PC version can be modified, although few mods for this game have released, such as capable of playing as Peter Parker [in civilian clothes] and New Goblin. Scorpion, Rhino, and Kingpin are exclusive villains to this version.

There have been various changes to the movement and combat system, including the usage of motion sensitive controls on the Wii version. The Nintendo DS version's combat system is entirely operated using the DS's touch screen - the D-Pad is only used for moving Spider-Man. Players are also now able to interact at certain points during some cutscenes.

Treyarch developed Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions differ from the versions developed by Vicarious Visions (That are PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, Wii, and PSP) in that initially players cannot change into the black suit at will. Instead, players change into the Black Suit at a certain point in the storyline. Players are also able to swing freely and enter the Bugle for assignments like in the Spider-Man 2 game and can enter into Peter's apartment.

Peter Parker can be playable in his civilian clothes via glitches after failing a Dragon Trail-themed Photo Mission while remaining inside the Bugle for few minutes and exit the mission. After you complete this glitch you only have double swinging and running and spider-sense.

Microsoft Windows[]

These are the list of Playable characters that can be fully accessed on PC gameplay via either Debug Mode, or hex editing the save file:

  • CH_BLACKSUIT (original as ch_blacksuit)
  • CH_PETER (original as ch_peter while in DB)
  • CH_SPIDERMAN (original as ch_spiderman)
  • CH_PLAYERGOBLIN

However, there are certain side effects when using hex edited save data on certain Spider-Man's costumes:

  • If you switch with other Playable Path of Spider-Man (ex. Spider-Man > Black Suit), then switch again back to default unmodded Playable Path, as well as some mission that suddenly turned into one of 2 default playable Spider-Men. Following the bug list (3 Spider-Men only, mostly completed):
    • BLACKSUIT:
      • Revert to SPIDERMAN while in original suit's Playable Path
        • Entering then Exit Daily Bugle
        • Photo Missions
        • Movie
          • 1 (Default into Peter while in his path, except in original Suit Path aftermath)
          • 4 (Finale, 3rd/last part only)
    • PETER:
      • Revert to Playable Default
        • Entering then Exit Daily Bugle
        • MJ Ride 4 (Black Suit)
        • All Arsenic Candy Missions (3 - 4: Black Suit)
        • Photo Missions
        • Lizard
          • 1
          • 2 (aftermath)
          • 3 (Black Suit)
        • Dragon Tails 3
        • Movie
          • 1 (aftermath)
          • 2 (Black Suit)
          • 3 (Photo Mission, Black Suit)
          • 4 (Finale, 3rd/last part only)
        • All Kingpin Missions
      • Has no gameplay dialogue voice like Original & Black Suit Spider-Man except in Movie 1
    • SPIDERMAN
      • Revert to BLACKSUIT while in Black Suit's Playable Path and Exclusive Missions
        • Entering then Exit Daily Bugle
        • MJ Ride 4 (Black Suit)
        • Arsenic Candy 3 - 4
        • Photo Missions
        • Lizard
          • 3 (Black Suit)
        • Dragon Tail 3
        • Movie
          • 1 (Default into Peter while in his path, except in Black Suit Path aftermath)
          • 2 (Black Suit)
          • 3 (Photo Mission, Black Suit)
          • 4 (Finale, 3rd/last part only)
        • All Kingpin Missions

For New Goblin, like his Collector Edition/DLC counterpart, he has no mission stories and crime-fighting sides. However, when used in New Game+-style mod, it is highly recommended not to use New Goblin in tutorials, as it may not be able to proceed to the starting mission’s next lesson, due to New Goblin’s playstyle is completely different than other Spider-Men. His activities is only available via debug mode

While using Debug Mode, player can restart previous missions; changing characters and forecast, unlock everything; can go to almost other places beyond outer Manhattan Island; cheat codes (except for New Goblin's Infinite Skystick Booster); .etc.

Reception[]

Spider-Man 3 received mixed reviews from critics. The game received mixed or average reviews on Metacritic. ScrewAttack called the game the 7th worst Superhero game ever. GameInformer was fairly positive about the game, giving it an 8 out of 10. They praised the number of moves, the voice acting, and the variety of missions, but criticized the soundtrack. 

Voice Cast[]

  • Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man
  • James Franco as Harry Osborn/New Goblin
  • Kari Wahlgren as Mary Jane Watson
  • Thomas Haden Church as Flint Marko/Sandman
  • Topher Grace as Eddie Brock/Venom
  • J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson
  • Nathan Carlson as Dr. Curt Connors
  • Bill Nunn as Robbie Robertson
  • Elizabeth Banks as Betty Brant
  • Bruce Campbell as The Narrator
  • Neil Ross as Luke Carlyle/Mad Bomber
  • Neil Kaplan as Sergei Kravenoff/Kraven the Hunter
  • Sean Donnellan as Michael Morbius (Only on the GameCube, Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2, and even the PlayStation Portable versions.)
  • Courtenay Taylor as Frances Louise Barrison/Shriek(Only on the GameCube, Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2, and even the PlayStation Portable versions.)
  • Perla Haney Jardine as Penny Marko
  • Keone Young
  • Bob Joles as Kingpin
  • Dee Bradley Baker as Scorpion

Trivia[]

  • There was also going to be an Xbox version of the game in the meantime, but it was canceled due to the Xbox's low sales.
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