So I tried playing SPIDER-MAN 3 in 2023...

Spider-Man 3 is a goofy game with lots to love, but it all started in 2002. Our Retro Rebound on the first ever Raimi Spider-Man game is now live! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tEDglZdtrw

This game got me through one of the worst periods of my childhood so I loved it

I always loved how weirdly consistent Spider-man games were compared to other heroes. Even the "bad" games were still pretty high quality and a good time.

My favorite thing in the 360 version was because you could swim, you could just yank the enemies into the water.

I don't care what anyone says or how much THAT scene of Peter dancing gets mocked and memed to hell and back, I LOVED the movie this game is based on!

I find it impressive that the PSP version is a direct port of the PS2 version, whereas Spider-Man 2 on PSP was more like the first movie game with a level based structure. Probably also why 3 doesn't even match 2's levels of visual quality.

Will always have a genuine fondness and love for this game. My grandmother, who is sadly no longer with us, bought me this as a gift when I came home from school back in 2007. Now as a 30 year old man, whenever I see this game it always reminds me of her.

Also, the PS3 version had an exclusive as well. You could play as Harry/ New Goblin in that one.

Played the PS2 version of the game as a kid and I always enjoyed that you could switch between regular and black suit basically at any time. It did seem like a downgrade in a lot of ways, compared to the previous game, but the black suit was badass.

Spider-Man 3 the movie and the game are underrated gems that need more appreciation instead of hated

This was the spider-man game I grew up with right after Spider-Man 2 on PC. Again, I must stress : ON PC, because my parents wouldn't ever let me own a playstation or any console on account of their thought of them being mind-numbing for kids. This game was like a masterpiece in comparison and I lived my childhood holding firmly on that belief

Dude, I LOVE this game. It is so much fun to mess around and just chill travelling through the city with the banger of a soundtrack beating in the background listening to really satisfying web SFX. The city is the most vibrant of ANY Spider-Man game to date, no contest. You can go into the subway and swing through it, you can enter buildings (some of which where you did old missions and some of which where you can just chill out and have fun), you can enter your apartment, you can fling yourself across the entire cities from chimneys, etc. . The Harry Osborn fight is somehow one of my favourites in Spider-Man games. I mean, the starting point isn’t amazing, but once you jump off the glider it becomes so much goddamn fun. You can travel ANYWHERE in the city while fighting the Goblin, and it’s amazing. I made so much spectacular spectacle when swinging through the city and narrowly avoiding his pumpkin bombs like one cool as shite set-piece, it’s just sick as hell. You can even ENTER THE DAILY BUGLE AND WATCH HARDY OUTSIDE, GOODNESS!!! The game is just so much fun to mess around with, a lot of the missions don’t take place in iconic locations of NYC, you go to sewers, you go to Chinese museums, churches, a high-tech laboratory (Mecha-Bio-Con? I think?), etc. . I don’t know how but it’s just so much fun to mess around with his game and exploit design details that probably weren’t intended… I mean, the Venom fight at the end was also fun ‘cuz I’d intentionally jump off the construction building and swing around it while watching Venom try to keep up. Yeah, I love this game.

Great review. I remember playing as a kid and thinking getting the black suit was the coolest thing ever. And I liked how when you used it too long it’ll basically take you over. Can’t wait to see what Insomniac does with the black suit!

The final boss fight in this game actually destroyed my ability to develop confidence in life after being so demoralized.

Speaking of the empty subway systems, anyone felt like playing through those sections as a child or teen were kind of creepy in a way that probably exceeded the intended apprehension of having to go fight the Lizard? Like freaking Spider-Man having to descend into a liminal space, a trek into Hell itself in the form of the uncanny underbelly of New York. But then bam for some reason there's currently a massive drill machine operating in the sewers just recklessly carving a path through while Spider-Man has to run away from it. Truly odd vibes.

I loved this game as a teen,not so much the XBox version but the ps2 version I was absolutely obsessed with mostly because of the sound production and how the black suit was used,even though the graphics look like some of the worst I've seen there's still a great deal of nostalgia,I think the game is just about good enough to have a remake on today's technology and consoles like the ps4,ps5,Xbox series X and maybe even the PC

Hey if you're going to do games with different versions, maybe Force Unleashed could be one for you to review in the future. As I myself had the Xbox and the Wii version and there was a lot of differences, also on a personal note, the Wii's was my favorite.

I just absolutely loved how you could feel the generational difference. I played SM3 on the PS2 initially and I was in love. When I got it on PS3, it was a completely different experience. Bigger world, better cutscenes, my only complaint was how the black suit was handled. Have such fond memories of both of these games.

I've literally spent the last year (and will spend the next year) playing through all of the Spider-Man games. I am literally editing a Spider-Man 3 video AS I TYPE THIS. And what do I see on my YouTube homepage? The same thing happened while I was making my USM video. Dammit. Oh well, at least I know other passionate creators are making awesome content about the game. This was a great video

This was my top 1 favourite Spider-Man game back in the day, top 2 being Spider-Man 2 on PS2. I remember when i was a kid, some mission was incredibly hard and it took me days or even weeks to pass. But it was so rewarding, especially when you learned how to do combos and get your hands on the black suit and start destroying anything. Web swinging was good but not groundbreaking like Spider-Man 2 or Spider-Man 2018. Overall controls is pretty hard to get used to though and my only grudge is spider sense is now a bar that slowly run out and not something you can use whenever you like. The soundtrack is good too. I love how they added in villains and story sections that wasn't in the movie thus making it more interesting and not predictable. I miss it, might have to go dust off my PS3 to play this again soon.