Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is an action-adventure video game developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Activision for the PlayStation in 2001. It is the sequel to Neversoft's Spider-Man title, which was…
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is an adventure developed by Vicarious Visions, released 18 October 2001 on PlayStation. The main story takes about 4.5 hrs to finish.
What Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is an adventure game developed by Vicarious Visions and released in 2001. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shortly after the Symbiote Invasion, a series of robberies led by Electro have taken place throughout New York City. While out on patrol, Spider-Man spots one of the robberies taking place at a building owned by BioTech. Planting a Spider-Tracer on the head thief's motorcycle, Spider-Man follows it to an abandoned warehouse where the thief is passing off a stolen briefcase to a contact. Spider-Man takes out the thugs and interrogates one of them, but is then attacked by the head thief: Shocker. After defeating Shocker, Spider-Man follows the thug's tip and heads for the airfield, where the contact is heading towards. Along the way, Spider-Man is forced to disable a bomb threat, take out a…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Marvel series
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is the 77th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Spider-Man in 2002. Its critic score of 40 is 24 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.
How it was received
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro holds a critic score of 40 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 32 points below the year average. Players rate it 57, 17 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 9 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro launched on 18 October 2001, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto III, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete and Gothic. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto III, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete, Gothic.
Official trailer
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