The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man is an action-adventure video game released in 2012, developed by Beenox and published by Activision. The game serves as a tie-in to the 2012 film of the same name, though it features its…
The Amazing Spider-Man is an adventure developed by Beenox, released 26 June 2012 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Amazing Spider-Man is
The Amazing Spider-Man is an adventure game developed by Beenox and released in 2012. It was published by Activision. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Goliath Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Serving as an alternate epilogue to the 2012 film, The Amazing Spider-Man returns to an open-world Manhattan some months after the movie's events. The uneasy calm shatters when a batch of cross-species experiments, born from Oscorp's continuation of Dr. Curt Connors' research, break loose across the city. The escaped creatures carry a deadly virus that begins to spread through the population, plunging Manhattan into a mounting biological crisis. As Spider-Man, the player must swing into action to contain the outbreak, teaming up with Gwen Stacy and the conflicted Connors in a race to develop a cure before the contagion overwhelms the city. Complicating matters is Oscorp's ambitious new…
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
The Amazing Spider-Man is the 234th of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. The next entry was The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012. Its critic score of 65 is almost exactly the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes at 90.
How it was received
The Amazing Spider-Man holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 122 votes.
What it launched against
The Amazing Spider-Man launched on 26 June 2012, within three weeks of Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky and Pokémon Black Version 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 4 Golden, Spec Ops: The Line, Spelunky, Pokémon Black Version 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Amazing Spider-Man yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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