Ultimate Spider-Man (game)

Peter Parker and Eddie Brock have been friends since childhood. Their fathers worked on the Venom project, an organic substance that can cure people of cancer. However, the project was not completed. Peter decides to steal him to complete the job, but the substance accidentally hits him, giving him new strength. Unfortunately, the costume turns out to be uncontrollable and nearly kills Peter. When Eddie finds out about the deeds of a friend, he applies the substance on himself, forming a Venom. Venom tries to kill Peter, but he manages to escape. Venom disappears.

Three months pass. Peter continues to live his life, forgetting about Venom. However, the monster did not disappear without a trace, but only hid. All this time he attacked lonely passers-by and robbers. Once he breaks into a bar where he meets Wolverine, and defeats him. When Parker saves the city from Rhino, a huge robot-rhino, he feels an inexplicable headache, but refers to fatigue. That night, mercenaries led by Sylvia (Silver Sable) try to catch Eddie, but to no avail. Finally, the next day, Peter again feels a headache. This time the reason appears itself - Venom. The battle ends with Brock being taken by the people of Sable. Peter decides to check why he is in pain when approaching Eddie. The result is frightening: in the blood of Peter is part of Venom, since the DNA of Peter’s father was used to create it, which somehow brings together the substance and Peter.

At this time, Eddie falls into the hands of Bolivar Trask, who wants to get Venom. He's doing an Eddie test with Electro. Venom defeats the villain and returns to Trask. Meanwhile, a new villain appears - the Beetle, which for some reason steals a test tube with the sandman’s blood. Peter is chasing him. Tracks lead to the Embassy of Latvia. Eddie tells Trask about some connection between the costume and Spider-Man, which brings them to Peter Parker. Sable carries Brock to capture Parker, but he uses Venom, who organized a whole chase of mercenaries and helicopters after him, but Brock leaves anyway. That night, Peter heads for the embassy where the Beetle has hidden. However, instead of the Beetle, the Green Goblin attacks Parker. Peter manages to defeat the mutant. But the Beetle also did not disappear. Venom overtakes him and defeats.

The next day, Silver Sable attacks Peter and tries to get him to Trask. Peter gets into a fight with her, which almost leads to a series of tragedies. Peter and Sylvia join forces, but when the townspeople are rescued, Sable shoots darts at him with a tranquilizer. After this, Sable is abducted by Venom, and Peter goes to rescue her. In the end, Peter and Venom fight again, but both Venom and Parker are "on the ground": the first - from the fight itself, the second - from a huge dose of Sobol's tranquilizers. While Eddie is in his "cage", Peter becomes a victim of the experience that forms Carnage. Using Venom, Eddie defeats the monster and swallows it, receiving the missing piece of gene material from Peter, which allows Eddie to control the costume. Now his goal is Trask.

Peter is trying to learn from Bolivar everything about his father, but Venom is stopping him. Trask tries to fly away by helicopter, but Venom catches him earlier and tries to kill him. Peter manages to fight with Venom and defeat him. Now he found out the truth: substance from the very beginning was an unsuccessful experiment. Brock's father was instructed to destroy the experiment, but he left the ampoule to himself, which he used. The result is a plane crash on which almost no one survived (Peter’s mother died in an ambulance). Peter decides to show Eddie’s files, but he’s not.

Last shots: Eddie finds Trask in prison and deals with him, Peter and Mary Jane talk about what happened together, and again Eddie wakes up from a trance (possibly a dream) and goes somewhere.

Protagonists

• Peter Parker \ Spider-Man ( born Peter Parker \ Spider-Man ) is the main character of the game. Parents of Peter died under mysterious circumstances. He himself is a simple schoolboy who, after being bitten by a mutant spider, acquired incredible strength and dexterity, as well as the ability to crawl along walls. In addition, he has a developed intellect. Now he is known as Spider-Man.
• Eddie Brock \ Venom ( Eng. Eddy Brock \ Venom ) - acts as an antagonist then as an antihero of the game. Eddie was a childhood friend of Peter. Their fathers worked together on the Venom project, a special substance that can cure people of cancer. However, the suit was uncontrollable, and Peter tried to destroy it. To prevent this, Eddie applied the development on himself.
• Bolivar Trask is the head of Trask Industries, the main antagonist of the game. Trask has developed many large projects. He was also aware of the Venom project, which Richard Parker and Brock the Elder worked on. However, he was more interested in the economic aspect of the matter. According to Peter, it was he who was responsible for the death of his parents.
• Adrian Tooms ( English Adrian Tooms ) - assistant and informant Trask. From his words it can be assumed that he once worked with Brock Sr. He was next to Peter during his transformation into Carnage, but it is not specified whether he is alive or not.
• Silver Sable is a female mercenary and leader of the Wild Pack . Apparently, she worked for Trask, was responsible for the capture of Venom, and later, of Peter Parker himself. The last time appears on the roof of the Trask building. Peter is getting ready for the fight, but she reports that her contract with Trask has run out and tells him not to take everything to heart, since “Business is business.”
• Nick Fury is the leader of the crime prevention organization I. T. " . He appears several times in the game, giving instructions to Peter.
• Mary Jane Watson is a girl of Peter. In the game, she appears only in videos and is almost not involved in the main plot.
• Johnny Storm ( born Johnny Storm ) - a member of the Fantastic Four, an episodic character. Appears only once to compete with Peter in speed. His tasks are in the city. Performing them, the player opens up new and more complex races.

Negative Characters

• Alex O'Hirn \ Rhino ( born Alex O'Hirn \ RHINO ) is a huge humanoid cyborg rhino. Arranges destruction on the streets of the city. Peter manages to defeat him. Inside the cyborg is someone Alex O'Hearn, who controlled it from the inside. Rhino is also known to be a product of Trask Industries.
• Electro ( Eng. Electro ) - a criminal working for Trask. Owns the ability to control electricity. He had to test Eddie’s ability to control Venom. Later, he almost kills Spider-Man, but Venom manages to disable Electro.
• Beetle ( English Beetle ) - a mysterious man in a suit. First, he freed the Green Goblin, then hunted for Sandman's DNA samples. Uses its high-tech equipment. At first he manages to escape from Spider-Man, but then he loses in the battle with Venom when trying to take a sample of the symbiote. The motives are unclear, it is known that he is associated with the Embassy of Latvia.
• Green Goblin ( Eng. Green Goblin ) - mutated Norman Osborn, who was in the Embassy of Latvia. Extremely strong, able to make big jumps and throw fireballs.
• The shocker is one of the first enemies in the game. Spider-Man defeats him by shorting his stun gloves with cobwebs. Sometimes appears in urban events, trying to rob someone.

There is a limited version of the exclusive for PlayStation 2 that contains four character biographies (Perfect Spider-Man, Perfect Venom, Perfect Carnage and Perfect Beetle), an interview with Stan Lee, special name G4 "Creating Perfect Spider-Man", tips and tricks for developers and special edition (also called "Activision Edition") Comic book "Perfect Spider-Man", containing scenes from issues No. 33-39. One of the concept art in the special edition shows what happened when the Beetle entered the Latvian embassy, ​​how he hands the bottle to Sandman to Doctor Doom.

The game received positive reviews from critics.