Spider-Man: Battle for New York
Spider-Man: Battle for New York allows players to take on the role of Spider-Man and one of his famed nemeses, Green Goblin. For the first time in a handheld Spider-Man game, players can personalize their…
Spider-Man: Battle for New York is a platform developed by Torus Games, released 14 November 2006 on Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance.
What Spider-Man: Battle for New York is
Spider-Man: Battle for New York is a platform game developed by Torus Games and released in 2006. It was published by Activision. It is available on Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Spider-Man: Battle for New York allows players to take on the role of Spider-Man and one of his famed nemeses, Green Goblin. For the first time in a handheld Spider-Man game, players can personalize their experiences by choosing what abilities and powers to upgrade and when, such as Spider-Man’s web manoeuvres or Green Goblin’s fire attacks.
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: Battle for New York is the 146th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Special Edition in 2006. Its critic score of 70 is 6 points above 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: Battle for New York holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Spider-Man: Battle for New York launched on 14 November 2006, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War and Guitar Hero II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II.
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