


Pikachunich 9) Mysterio’s Menace (2001, Gameboy Advance) Kingpin was easily the best 2D Spider-Man game until it was succeeded by a few Gameboy Advance titles. With added voice-acted and animated cutscenes and tons of gameplay improvements like increased climbing speed. the Kingpin ( 1991, Sega CD)īasically a remake of the original Spider-Man for the Genesis, Kingpin features a relatively open level structure that was way ahead of its time. World of Longplays/YouTube 10) The Amazing Spider-Man vs.

It was cool grabbing bad guys with Venom’s extending arms and whipping them back and forth, plus the comic book-style story beats were pretty good-looking, all things considered. Switching between both titular heroes, players moved eternally right, beating up street thugs and hunting the red-tinted Carnage in a classic beat-em-up arcade button masher. World of Longplays/YouTube 11) Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (1994, SNES, Genesis)įor a long time, Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage was basically the only good Spider-Man game around. Unlike the beautiful variances of 2099 or Noir, environments and enemies are a homogenous glob, combat is punishingly repetitive, and you don’t even get to swing around on your webs all that much. After a complicated bit of time manipulation and Anti-Venom trickery kills off the Amazing Spider-Man, 2099’s Spider-Man brings him back to life and gets to work rewriting the threads of history. The top Spider-Man games ranked from worst to best 12) Spider-Man: Edge of Time ( 2011, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)ĭespite coming from the same studio that brought us the inventive and occasionally brilliant Shattered Dimensions, Edge of Time is an atrocious corridor crawler of an experience. Before Insomniac’s new Spider-Man game releases this September, check out our list of 15 major Spiderman games ranked from worst to best. If it’s not the zany action that being a giant human spider affords you, or just the beauty of swinging from skyscraper to skyscraper as the Manhattan sunrise shimmers down Broadway, Spider-Man’s nature lends itself to open-world action games like few others can achieve, and game developers knew it, too. When it comes to superhero games, Spider-Man has almost always reigned supreme.
