Like every other Spider-Man 2 game across countless consoles and handhelds, the PSP SKU uses the basic template of the film of the same name: Peter Parker struggling to manage his responsibilities and relationships with his web-slinging antics as a new villain, Doctor Octopus, rises to terrorize New York.

That being said however, Spider-Man 2 on the PSP doesn’t exactly fix the problems of its pre-open-world siblings, and the device in which it is on creates brand new ones. If you’re looking for a portable, open-world Spider-Man game, this is a game that will end up disappointing you, but if you enjoyed the PSOne Spider-Man games and the first movie title released in 2002, this is very much a game that’s worth your time. An almost more applicable title for this game would be What if Activision kept producing linear Spider-Man games?. I guess that’s much more of a mouthful than simply Spider-Man 2 but the summary is very applicable. Such stories were told as What if Jane Foster Found the Hammer of Thor?…wait, that happened, or What if the Alien Costume had Possessed Spider-Man?. What if? is perhaps the best way to start talking about Spider-Man 2 on the PSP. What if? was a simple two-word question that once was a comic series published by Marvel.

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