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Spider-Man 2: The Game

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Spider-Man 2: The Game
Spider-Man 2: The Game cover
Developers
The Fizz Factor
macOS (OS X) Aspyr Media
macOS (OS X) Ryan C. Gordon
Publishers
Activision
Engines
Unreal Engine 2
Release dates
Windows June 28, 2004
macOS (OS X) August 16, 2004
Reception
Metacritic 42
IGDB 68
Spider-Man 2: The Game on HowLongToBeat
Spider-Man 2: The Game on IGDB
Spider-Man 2: The Game guide on StrategyWiki
Spider-Man 2: The Game on MobyGames
Spider-Man 2: The Game on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
Subseries of Marvel
Spider-Man (1986) 1986
The Amazing Spider-Man and Captain America in Dr. Doom's Revenge! 1989
The Amazing Spider-Man 1990
Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety 1995
Spider-Man: The Sinister Six 1996
Spider-Man (2001) 2001
Spider-Man (2002) 2002
Spider-Man 2: The Game 2004
Spider-Man 2: Activity Center 2004
Ultimate Spider-Man 2005
Spider-Man 3 2007
Spider-Man: Friend or Foe 2007
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows 2008
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions 2010
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2014
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Virtual Reality Experience 2017
Spider-Man: Far From Home - Virtual Reality Experience 2019
Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered 2022
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2022

Key points

Despite the similar title, this game is not a port nor has anything to do with the PlayStation 2/Xbox/GameCube game "Spider-Man 2".

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
CD-ROM used only for installation.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

Patch v1.1 is the latest patch for the OS X version.[1]

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System\Webhead.ini[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\System[Note 1]
macOS (OS X)

Video

Video Settings
Video Settings

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
See Widescreen resolution.
Ultra-widescreen
See Widescreen resolution.
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
See the WSGF entry.
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
MSAA can be forced through the graphics card control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Enable by Default
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

Set in Webhead.ini
  1. Go to the configuration file(s) location.
  2. Open Webhead.ini.
  3. Go to the [WinDrv.WindowsClient] section.
  4. Set FullscreenViewportX and FullscreenViewportY to the desired resolution.

Input

Control Settings
Control Settings

Audio

Audio Settings
Audio Settings

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Music,effects and voice sliders
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Italian
Russian
Only on Russian retail copy.

VR support

3D modes State Notes
vorpX
G3D
User created profile, requires DGVoodoo2 v 2.55.4, see profile introdution.
Note: Profile may not work with the latest wrapper, in case of issues please report to the vorpx forum.

Other information

API

ExecutablePPC 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Install the version 1.1 patch for Intel support.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium III 600 MHz
AMD Athlon 600 MHz
System memory (RAM) 128 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 827 MB
Video card (GPU) 16 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0b compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Aspyr - Support - last accessed on 2007-08-07