The plot of the PC game differs drastically
from the main console versions. It first starts out with a short cutscene from
the primary console game that introduces as to how Dr. Otto Octavius became
Doctor Octopus with his fusion reaction experiment. The PC version then
diverges from the console versions with a tutorial, (narrated by Bruce
Campbell) telling the player how to play as Spider-Man, (i.e. web swinging,
wall crawling, fighting, etc.).
The storyline for the game starts off with
a cutscene of a gray van being chased down by the police before it crashes, and
out come two crooks. Spider-Man dispatches the crooks quickly, but the van
drives away automatically. Spider-Man follows it to the New York Maximum
Security Prison where a large group of thugs are causing a riot. Spider-Man
defeats many crooks and escaping prisoners before the Rhino busts out of the
prison. He briefly fights Spider-Man before he tries to charge away, but he is
caught in a laser cage set up by the police. Deciding to let the undefeated
prisoners escape (whom he can later find in alleys and hidden areas),
Spider-Man goes after the Rhino and defeats him by making him charge into the
laser field (and subsequently pummel him while he is down, which is an option
and it makes the Rhino's defeat quicker). Just before he is defeated, the Rhino
charges at Spider-Man one last time and escapes the laser field, but he
accidentally rams into a gas station that blows up and knocks him several
blocks away from the explosion, where Doctor Octopus takes his unconscious
form. Spider-Man lets Doctor Octopus get away with Rhino while he douses the
fires caused by the explosion and then demonstrates a new power punch by
defeating three crooks (these power punches are gained when defeating normal
enemies, not bosses, and once they are gained, they drain out during combat,
which quickly defeats enemies with a single punch).
Later, Peter Parker, Spider-Man's alter
ego, is with his Aunt May at the bank, and goes to the bathroom just as Doctor
Octopus and a gang of his robbers hold the bank hostage. Spider-Man pummels his
way through the robbers and saving the hostages, including Aunt May, until he
reaches the basement of the bank where he confronts Doctor Octopus. They fight,
but Doctor Octopus gets away with his stolen cash. Spider-Man once again lets
him get away in order to save Aunt May from a band of three robbers who kidnap
her and take her into their van. Spider-Man stops the van, dispatches the
robbers and saves Aunt May.
The next day, Peter is walking with Mary
Jane Watson through the city when they both spot MJ's car getting stolen. Peter
tells MJ to wait where she is while he calls the police. Then Spider-Man
follows the car to a garage where he confronts the villain Puma and a band of
his crooks in a warehouse. Puma leads Spider-Man on a chase throughout the
warehouse while Spider-Man pummels his way through Puma's cronies, and their
initial fight takes place in a small room. After Puma takes some beating, he
takes the fight outside to the rooftops, at a water fountain and finally to an
unfinished construction site. There, Puma finally surrenders in his fight
against Spider-Man, but gleefully tells him that he was merely a distraction
for Spider-Man while Doctor Octopus kidnapped Mary Jane. In a cutscene, Puma
tries to get away but Spider-Man webs him up and finally defeats Puma. He calls
Mary Jane, but Doctor Octopus has kidnapped her.
Later, Doctor Octopus and his cronies
attack OsCorp. Spider-Man goes to OsCorp to foil the heist there, defeating
many cronies and saving countless civilians and scientists, as well as
disabling the eight bombs Doctor Octopus placed in the building. Spider-Man is
then confronted by Rhino in a room with six generators which Spider-Man makes
the brutish villain ram into and electrocute himself, but Rhino is not done
yet. He confronts Spider-Man for a third time in a room with four liquid
nitrogen tubes that Spider-Man destroys and leaks the gases in the tubes,
quickly freezing the room. But fortunately, Spider-Man escapes the room before
it freezes and Rhino is frozen with it, finally defeating him. Then Spider-Man
leaves OsCorp through an elevator to continue his search for Doctor Octopus on
OsCorp's rooftop before he finds himself in a New York literally torn out of
the ground and into the sky by the machinations of the supervillain Mysterio,
who has done this to further Doctor Octopus's plans.
Spider-Man destroys the generators that
seemingly hold New York in the sky, as well as fighting through Mysterio's
numerous robots, before fighting and chasing a flying Mysterio himself, which
Spider-Man fights back by throwing meteors at the villain that the latter
throws down from the sky to defeat the superhero. But Mysterio is not done yet;
he tries to kill Spider-Man again with a giant laser gun on top of the Daily
Bugle, but Spider-Man destroys it and defeats Mysterio. Mysterio tells
Spider-Man of Doctor Octopus's plans and disappears, reverting New York back to
normal.
Spider-Man takes the final fight to Doctor
Octopus through the subways, fighting past the remainder of Doctor Octopus's
cronies, saving Mary Jane and battling Doctor Octopus in a final showdown at
his fusion reactor. Spider-Man pummels enough sense into him to make Doctor
Octopus realize the error of his ways and he sacrifices himself by pulling his
machine in with him into the river (much like the movie), and Spider-Man
escapes with Mary Jane without revealing his identity to her.
System Requirements
CPU: Pentium or Athlon 600 MHz Processor
RAM: 128MB RAM
VGA: 16MB DirectX compatible 3D Accelerated
Video Card
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Windows 7
HDD: 827MB Hard Disk Space
ODD: 4X CD-ROM Drive
