Reception
The critical reviews were good, with many critics at the time considering it the best Spider-Man game yet. However, criticism fell on the indoor levels, Tobey Maguire's voice acting and bad camera, as well as the fact that it was too short and could be completed in 3 hours. Even with these flaws, the game was good enough to get an 8.4 out of 10 from IGN, a 9.3 out of 10 from GamePro and a 4 out of 5 from GameSpy.
High sales (two million copies of the PlayStation 2 version and over 400,000 on the GameCube and Xbox) were sold in North America alone, allowing the game to enter the "Best-Sellers" of each console (PlayStation 2's Greatest Hits, GameCube's Player's Choice and Xbox's Platinum Hits). It was recently promoted to "Best of Platinum Hits" on the Xbox.
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