Developer : Activision
Release date : May 2, 2014
Synopsis :
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is an open world action-adventure video game based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man and the 2014 film of the same name. Developed by Beenox, it is the sequel to 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, and takes place within the same continuity, different from that of the films. The game’s plot expands upon that of the film by including additional characters and elements from the Spider-Man comic books and other aspects of the Marvel Universe.
The game was released on April 29 in North America and May 2 in Europe for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox 360, to mixed to negative reviews, with criticism particularly aimed at the plot, writing, repetititive combat and the Hero-Menace morality system. The Xbox One version was released alongside the other platforms digitally while the release of physical copies was delayed by two weeks.[3] Gameloft also released a mobile version on April 17 for iOS and Android devices as a paid game. The game was also localized in Japan by Square Enix as a Sony-exclusive title. It is the last Spider-Man video game (and by extension, the final Marvel game) to be published by Activision (who lost the game publishing rights to multiple Marvel characters shortly after the game’s release), and also the last major Spider-Man video game to be released for the Xbox and Nintendo consoles as well as for the Playstation 3, as the license for Spider-Man games was passed to Insomniac Games, who went on to develop the Marvel’s Spider-Man series published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for PlayStation consoles and Microsoft Windows, beginning with the 2018 game Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Peter Parker has been fighting crime in New York City as Spider-Man for two years, motivated by the death of his Uncle Ben at the hand of criminal Dennis Carradine. Resuming his search for Carradine, whom he failed to catch two years ago, Spider-Man tracks him down using a lead from Herman Schultz, one of Carradine’s contractors. However, Carradine is promptly killed by the “Carnage Killer”, a serial killer who murders other criminals. Spider-Man vows to capture the Carnage Killer so that they may face justice.
Later, Spider-Man stops Schultz’s gang and the Russian Mob from destroying the Oscorp building while raiding it for advanced weapons to help them win the turf war they have engaged in. Spider-Man rescues an electric engineer named Max Dillon, who idolizes him, and encounters Schultz again, who is now sporting vibro-shock gauntlets and calling himself the “Shocker”. After defeating him, Shocker reveals that all major gangs in the city are now involved in the turf war, and are fearful of the Carnage Killer. In response to the attack on Oscorp, the company’s new CEO Harry Osborn and billionaire Wilson Fisk join forces to fund the Enhanced Crime Task Force, a privatized police force meant to contain criminals, as well as vigilantes like Spider-Man.
Spider-Man begins to be mentored by Kraven the Hunter, who teaches him his hunting techniques to help him become a better hero, while working together to track down the Carnage Killer. Using information Spider-Man retrieves from the Russian Mob’s hideouts, they deduce where the killer will strike next, and confront him. The Carnage Killer, whose real name is revealed to be Cletus Kasady, claims that he and Spider-Man are very alike and should join forces, but is promptly defeated and arrested. Kasady is taken to the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane, where he is experimented on with a red substance code-named “Venom”, originally meant to cure the illness that killed Norman Osborn.
Following Kasady’s capture, the gang war comes to an abrupt end as a crime lord known as the “Kingpin” seizes all the power. The Kingpin sends Felicia Hardy, a former bank robber who gained super-powers through genetic experiments funded by him, to kill Spider-Man, but she refuses to do so. Knowing the Kingpin will try to have her killed for disobeying him, Felicia reveals his identity as Fisk to Spider-Man before going into hiding. To learn more about Fisk’s activities, Spider-Man visits Harry as Peter, only to discover that his old friend has inherited his father’s illness. Harry asks for Spider-Man’s blood, believing it can be used to develop a cure, but the hero, afraid of the possible side effects, refuses to give it to him without properly researching it first. Unwilling to wait, Harry dismisses Spider-Man and vows to find another solution.
Meanwhile, Kraven lures Spider-Man into an ambush, where he reveals he was hired by Fisk to kill him, and only trained him to make Spider-Man a worthy opponent. After being defeated, Kraven reveals that Fisk is the one who sent Kasady on a killing spree, to scare the citizens of New York into supporting his plans for redeveloping the city, and to weaken Fisk’s rivals so that he could take over. Spider-Man infiltrates Fisk’s hideout, where he defeats him and tries to hack into his computer for incriminating evidence. However, he is forced to leave after Max Dillon escapes from Ravencroft (where he was incarcerated following the freak accident that transformed him into “Electro”) and causes a blackout. Spider-Man tries to reason with Electro, but is forced to fight him, resulting in the latter’s death.
Later, while responding to an attack on Oscorp, Spider-Man is shocked to find Harry, who has become the “Green Goblin” after injecting himself with Richard Parker’s spider venom in hopes of curing himself. Spider-Man defeats Harry, who is mortally impaled by his own glider while trying to attack the hero from behind. Meanwhile, Kasady discovers how to bond with the symbiote he has been injected with and becomes “Carnage”. He tries to escape from Ravencroft, but is defeated by Spider-Man after discovering the symbiote’s weakness to fire. Wounded, Kasady begs Spider-Man to kill him, but he refuses, reminding him they are nothing alike. Kasady is subsequently re-incarcerated and the symbiote removed from his body.
After visiting his old friend Stan, Peter is inspired to be the man Uncle Ben would have wanted him to be, and resumes his never-ending battle against crime. Meanwhile, Fisk takes over Oscorp and decides to continue financing the Task Force alone, before being visited by the Chameleon, who has been posing as Harry’s assistant Donald Menken to oversee Fisk’s experiments at Ravencroft. When the Chameleon asks what their next move is, Fisk states that “now the real work begins”.
Source : Wikipedia
