10 Best Spider-Man Games Of All Time - Ranked

4. Spider-Man

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The first fully-3D Spider-Man game was also the first to really makes players feel as though they were controlling Marvel's signature hero. Swinging from building to building, webbing thugs from the ceiling and taking on Venom while Mary Jane's life was hanging in the balance brought the most spectacular panels from the comic to life in a way that blew every kids' mind back in 2000.

Though it sounds a bit weird to say, Nerversoft brought the same anarchic energy that fuelled their Tony Hawk's games along to this universe, imbuing the title with the personality required to bring the web head's world to life. Seriously, there's an end-credits scene with Spidey's rogues gallery bickering in jail that's one of the funniest superhero scenes across any medium.

The limitations of the PS1 are quite obvious, but it still holds up pretty solidly today - even if Venom's cheesy 90s one-liners haven't aged quite as well as the gameplay.

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