Ultimate Spider-Man

Ultimate Spider-Man is an action-adventure game based on the comic series of the same name. Players can control either Spider-Man or Venom, each with distinct abilities and combat styles. The game features…

74 22 September 2005

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Action Open world

Ultimate Spider-Man is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Beenox, released 22 September 2005 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 1 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Ultimate Spider-Man is

Ultimate Spider-Man is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Beenox and released in 2005. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Treyarch NGL.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set within the Ultimate Marvel universe and based on the acclaimed comic book of the same name, Ultimate Spider-Man picks up three months after the events of the Venom storyline. Players explore an open-world rendition of Manhattan and Queens while the tale alternates between two very different perspectives. As the web-slinging hero Spider-Man, teenager Peter Parker digs into the sinister dealings of Trask Industries, seeking to unravel the company's ties to the creation of the Venom symbiote and, more personally, to the mysterious deaths of his own parents. Meanwhile, players also take control of Venom, the hulking symbiote-bound Eddie Brock, who struggles with an insatiable hunger and…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Marvel series

Ultimate Spider-Man is the 111th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Ultimate Spider-Man in 2005. Its critic score of 74 is 10 points above 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

Ultimate Spider-Man holds a critic score of 74 out of 100. That places it above 54% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 7 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 181 votes.

What it launched against

Ultimate Spider-Man launched on 22 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Cheats and codes

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