Spider-Man

Spider-Man is an action-adventure game developed by Neversoft. Players control Spider-Man as he navigates levels using web-swinging, combat, and stealth mechanics. The story involves a conspiracy featuring…

35 30 August 2000

Adventure Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action

Spider-Man is an adventure developed by Neversoft Entertainment, released 30 August 2000 on Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PlayStation and Mac. The main story takes about 8.3 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Spider-Man is

Spider-Man is an adventure game developed by Neversoft Entertainment and released in 2000. It was published by Activision. It is available on Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Spider-Man is an action-adventure game developed by Neversoft. Players control Spider-Man as he navigates levels using web-swinging, combat, and stealth mechanics. The story involves a conspiracy featuring villains such as Doctor Octopus and Venom.

Description from the publisher · source

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 is the 69th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was X-Men: Mutant Wars in 2000. Its critic score of 35 is 29 points below the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.

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How it was received

Spider-Man holds a critic score of 35 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2000 averaged 72, so it scored 37 points below the year average. Players rate it 56, 21 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 8.3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Spider-Man launched on 30 August 2000, within three weeks of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Paper Mario, Dino Crisis 2 and Rayman 2: The Great Escape. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, Paper Mario, Dino Crisis 2, Rayman 2: The Great Escape.

Cheats and codes

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