Spider-Man Playthrough (GameCube) - Tutorial

This is part 1 of my capture of me playing through Spider-Man for the GameCube. This is the movie tie-in game that was released alongside the Spider-Man film in 2002. I'm playing on normal difficulty.

When I was in junior high school I used to watch the Spider-Man cartoon that aired on Fox around the mid '90s. Although I had never read any comic books, I really liked some of the superhero cartoons that aired during this time including Spider-Man and Batman (I wasn't a huge fan of the Superman cartoon, but it was alright). Spider-Man was my absolute favorite among all of these cartoons. I watched every single episode as a kid and even recorded most of them on VHS. However, I always wondered why there had never been a major Spider-Man film released up to that point (aside from that one made-for-TV movie from the '70s).

In the early 2000s, Sony then announced that Sam Raimi would be directing the first major Spider-Man film. Based on my love for the '90s cartoon series, I knew I had to watch the new film the day it came out.

As I recall, I went to see the Spider-Man in the afternoon on my last day of high school, which, to me, was an awesome send-off. The movie ended up being really good, so when the two sequels came out later, I went to see both of them.

Not too long after the first film had released, I was shopping in Best Buy when I noticed a new Spider-Man game based on the movie. Even though I didn't know anything about the new game, I decided to buy the GameCube version on the spot. This was highly unusual for me since I don't normally buy games without doing some sort of research first.

Luckily, the game ended up being really fun, and I stayed up late that night completing as many missions as possible. In fact, the game was so fun that I kept replaying it on harder difficulty levels. There were tons of memorable missions such as infiltrating and escaping from OsCorp, fighting the giant robot boss, and shutting down the bombs on top of the skyscrapers. In fact, this game's missions were actually better than the ones featured in Spider-Man 2, even though Spider-Man 2 was probably a better game overall. However, the camera was always a bit wonky in this game. But that's basically my only gripe.

In this first part I played through the tutorial, which was narrated by Bruce Campbell, the star of the Evil Dead movies and a close friend of Sam Raimi. Bruce's dialogue for the tutorial is really funny, so that's why I'm including it.

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the GameCube's component cables. This game doesn't feature progressive scan mode (thanks a lot Activision) so I deinterlaced the footage in Virtualdub.