Why Did We Forget? | Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro Review | Kelphelp 

They need to have an HD collection for both spiderman 1 and 2

The web yank was in the first game.

This is probably your best review yet! I loved it! Keep it up.

The game was good but it had a lot of criticism being the following: 1- It was released in 2001 a month after 9/11 and a year after PS2 had come out. Everybody had seen the power of PS2 games such as GTA III and was not interested in PS1 games. 2- It was released on the PS1 as opposed to the first game which was released for the PS1, N64 and Dreamcast. 3- It was not advertised. Seriously. I remember picking this up in the store for cheap. When I got my PS2 in 2002 this was one of the only games I played because it was backwards compatible. I remember the first game being advertised this one wasn't. 4- It came out about 6 months before the movie game. This was foolish of the developers to do. Even the booklet advertised the movie game. 5- The reviews weren't good. The game was criticized for being too similar; and the story being weak- which it kind of was. the first story Spider-Man was accused of being a thief and everyone was after him. This story is much lighter. Overall, I feel the developers should've delayed this game for the PS2, XB and GC. They should've released it in 2003. In between the two movie games. This would've insured better sales for the game and a higher popularity.

I remember being really excited for "Enter Electro". Then after I played it, felt it was a decent sequel but really lacked alot of the charm of the first. Also, the fact that the next gen was quickly approaching, and I was looking forward the first Raimi film and game tie-in, this installment felt more like filler.

Great video. I honestly LOVED this game (still have it along with the 1st part) and thought it was just as enjoyable. Better graphics, better character models, bigger/more expansive levels, street levels (a complaint that people had with the 1st part), more web based powers (electric and ice webbing), more combos, more variety in the missions and objectives, more/new suits to unlock, bosses took a bit more effort to defeat, etc. I also really like the contrast of how part 1 takes place mostly in the day time while part 2 takes place mostly at dusk/night. I think my only real complaint is that like the 1st part it has 6 villains (Lizard, Shocker, Beetle, Sandman, Hammerhead and of course Electro), but you only get to fight 5 of them as Beetle, while working with the other villains, was regulated to cut scenes. Wish they would have had him as a boss battle as well. Regardless, I think Vicarious Visions did a very solid job with the sequel and in my opinion it's both underrated and underappreciated.

I think people discount this game because it didn't feel like a sequel. It was more like an expansion of the first game. The rogues gallery was lack luster compared to the first. Very few characters from the last game returned. Other than better graphics and different characters, how was SPM 2 different or better than one? A sequel is supposed to improve on the original. This was barley on par.

Oh I would never forget one of my favorite childhood game👏🏼

1:02 you said this is a prequel? No it’s not, it’s a sequel.

Still better than TASM2

I'd like to say it's because it was only released on the PS1 whereas the first game was released console-wide. I believe making it exclusive to the playstation killed it a bit because there may have been people who had a dreamcast version of the first game but dont want to buy a whole new system just for the sequel. Of course, now it's not necessarily as big of an issue as it was in 2001 but that's what i believe is the reason. Ports probably didnt happen since the next gen consoles at the time, as well as the sam raimi film were coming out and the focus was shifted to game versions of the film.

I love both games, they are some of my favorite games, but i actually like this one more, i think that the story is better even without the cameos from other characters like the previous game had, i loved Spider Man 2000's story, but as i got older i started to notice some problems not to mention that i never liked what they did to Venom in that game, i like the more varied levels and objectives, some are just like the first game, others are on the streets, some you just need to fight, others you need to be quick, to be efficient with your webbing and others you need to think a bit, i really like the boss fights here, the game also feels more cinematic, that opening with Electro invading that building, the reunion where Hammerhead appears and the scene where Electro gets the jewel and goes to the not twin towers, i love stuff like that, and i think that the soundtrack is more low key thanks to this cinematic approach, i wouldn't say it's better or worse just different, the only thing i think it's sad that this game doesn't have compared to the first one is and action packed explosive level like the helicopter chases. I think that this game had all sorts of bad luck, there was the 9/11 that even made them change levels and their names(the airplane level was called crash flight), cutscenes and some story elements, there was the transition to another generation, the upcoming Spider Man movie and i'ts video game adaptation on the newer systems, but to me what possibly hurt the game the most is that weird "logic" that a lot of reviewers had where a game is great, but if the sequel feels more "like and expansion rather than a sequel" it's automatically a mediocre game, it doesn't matter if the sequel is just as great as the first, quite a shame.

Something I just realized is that shocker is the only villain in the game to have an animated character display that reacts when he gets hit. All the other characters are just stills taken from the game that have their colours inverted

yo, thank you for this! been waiting forever and a day it seems for someone to put out spidey2 review. Keep up the great work sir. cheers.

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Anyone else feel like if the ps1 Spider-Man games had been released in today's world Enter Electro would have been DLC?

A shame there was no PC Version...

Awesome video, great job and keep it up! Loving these type of videos.

I remember when I first got this and i thought that it looked amazing , especially when they had a cutscene from the first in this, and the original cutscenes look awesome. And then Halo came out later. So that year was great for graphics for me. And it's interesting to look at the best looking games these days. Thinking that games back then looked like nothing could get better. And now we have realistic faces and more. Fun to see how far we've gotten in over a decade.

i think the best thing is, you can complete the first one and pick the second one up and you know everything about it already its just like one big interactive comic.

I think that it’s possible that one of the biggest reasons that this game was forgotten is that the N64, Dreamcast and PC versions were cancelled so it wasn’t on a large variety of consoles and systems like the first game. So I think that many kids didn’t play it because they didn’t have a PS1. Really great video by the way!

The web yank was in the first game (press down on the d pad while holding triangle). I've played the second game and enjoyed it, but not as much as the first, maybe partly due to the story being more forgettable compared to the first and also using villains that aren't as enjoyable as the previous game. Also, I think some of those ground levels were slightly tedious, but still fun

I heard this game sold pretty well. And even though I was always in game stores when I was younger, i only ever found this in my post office when they very briefly tried to sell ps1 games

It's too hard ;-; That airplane section, shocker battle, the level where you're trying to catch electro in an art galery, etc.

I feel the story and atmosphere of the 1st game was so great it was hard for the sequel to really match or surpass it. Like the first game is somewhat complex story with the symbiotes "nobody can control them." Followed by monster ock out if control. Then the 2nd game feels like a parody of whining villians in a table with no real plan

Got this one a while back for £5 (so around 6 dollars or so I guess), looking forward to doing it. Having a bit of a retro session lately, redoing Spidey 1 and then this one. Honestly I never picked up when it came out as I wasn't really aware of it, kind of flew under the radar somewhat, and also it was really at the tail end of the PS1 boom period and plenty of my mates at the time were PS2 by then. Only just come across your channel btw last couple of days, really loved the Spiderman 1 retrospective review mate, keep it going bro :)

Enter Electro is awesome, overlooked and underrated game

Spider-man 1 was one of my most played games back in the day. I wish I had this one too.

Little late to the party but thanks for this video. I also forgot about this game and the funny thing is I owned it. I think this game's biggest problem was its release so close to the Spider-man movie tie-in game which i think makes people remember the tie-in game because of the movie and forget about this one. That plus its release so close to September 11th probably left so many people on autopilot as far as memories go that when they think to that time in their life they don't think about Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro.

I played both as a kid and I’ve played both again recently. I remember when I was a kid I was amazed at the new things added in Spider-Man 2, however that wore off. Looking back at the games I’d say spider man 1 had more charm and was actually quite funny. Compared to spiderman 2 though it really lacked this, to me there was charm or humour. Not to say the game is bad as it’s not! It just lacked that Spider-Man 1 feel which is why I think people often forget about it, at least that’s why I do :)

Please review X-Men: Mutant Academy 1&2

this game felt more darker then the first one wich feels really strange to play it feels like its a diffrent spiderman game series rather then being a squeal then spiderman 2002 i really liked the dark vibe to it

Why did we forget? No, why did you forget

i think thef act that it didnt release on pc is also a big factor why its not so well known. the og spiderman game was really really popular in india where many kids had access to PC but consoles were very very rare.

Omg I just realized that the new Insomniac's Spider-Man has a create a Spider like feature!! I just realized this while watching your video. It makes me enjoy both games a lot more

I remember arguing on the bus in elementary school with my best friend from the time about these games. He was telling me that the main villain of "The Spiderman game" was Electro. And i was arguing that it was Doc Ock. It wasn't until a year or 2 ago that I learned this game existed and was like, "oh shit thats what he mustve been talking about."

I loved both of them, but the first will always be preferred. I loved the fire and ice webs in the second though. I didn’t knownTommy Talarico was responsible for the soundtrack of the first game, his work in Earthworm Jim 2 is simply spectacular.

erm Jedi Outcast was developed by Raven software. VV only did the ports to the Gamecube/Xbox.

You can also web ball in the air which you couldn't do in the first game

Great video man keep it up

I miss this game... one of the MANY games stolen 3 years ago....... I got this game months before my 7th bday and boy it held me over!

I remember my best friend friend got this game on his PS1 and he called me over that he had a surprise for me and when I went over he showed me this game. I was a huge fan of the first game on my PC so naturally I was excited to see this one and it was pretty awesome! But it was quite difficult if I remember well. We played this game togather to the end and the plane level was so difficult I remember quite well as well as the one where you have to find the bombs in the city and defuse them by matching the keys. But still it was an awesome time surely.

My guess is that, since both these games are so similar, they kinda blend together in our memories. I was really young when I played them on my PS1, and I remember both of them being fantastic, but until I searched for gameplays on RU-vid, I couldn't really tell them apart in my mind.

I remember loving the first game a lot but I just couldn’t get into this game even though I really wanted to. When the rami Spider-Man demo came out I was blown away. Totally forgot about this.

"Enter the webhead" is the best tune in this game.

I think the main reason that one flew under the radar was the late release. Also the fact that the 1st one was released on dreamcast (and therefore looked much better) VS this one that only got released on PS1 didn't heklp. I remember seeing it at a store and wondering why they downgraded the graphics and music...

The game was released in 2001 and people just moved on from the ps1 to the ps2.

Why they don't released this for PC or Dreamcast too?... damn

I think the reason that this one isn't remembered as much as the original is because it was only on the PlayStation. Spider-Man 2000 was on multiple platforms including PC, so it had a broader customer base. Also, there was another Spider-Man 2 game called The Sinister Six which only came out on Game Boy color that probably competed with Enter Electro and confused people.

You can see where Spider-Man ps4 took some inspiration

We forgot because spider man 2 for ps2 made us forget since it was amazing.

What mission is in the gameplay of the video

Personally, I forgot about Spiderman 2 because, despite the new content, it reused so many assets from the first game that it sort of faded away from my memory.

I believe this game got over shadowed by Spider-Man The Movie video game on, GameCube, PS2, Xbox, also during this time people were moving onto newer systems during the release of Spider-man 2 Enter Electro. (This happens to a lot of games that get released late in a systems life cycle) Nice video by the way.

Spider-Man 2 Enter Electro was my childhood I loved everything about it yet I didn’t remember playing the first one until I knew about it. Now I have both games and are valuable to me. I’m currently 16 by the way so my childhood isn’t completely over.

The game was released before 9/11 the level name and cutscenes was changed

I enjoyed this game as kid but nowhere near as much as the first, which still remains one of my favourite games to this day. Real shame there was never a Dreamcast port.

I heard they were gonna make a sequel to this game. That’s why Spider-Man was planned to cameo in X2: Wolverine’s Revenge. Unfortunately the Sam Raimi tie-in came out so they cancelled it. Gotta wonder what was in store for it...

This is the game I imagine when people say PS1 to PS2 era games. That and Tony Hawk. Also the music isn't forgettable. I remeber the music from the Beast scene as clearly as I'm hearing it right now. To me this was one of the definitive parts of my childhood. And figuring out that I could play it on the PS2 was even better.

Sucks this Didn't Come to Dreamcast like 1

In the period 1995-2001 I bought over 50 PS1 games, feeded by vg magazine of the times. I bought and played almost every big hits released in Europe at the time. And I LOVED Spiderman 2000. But in Fall 2001, I was actually playing Halo on the Xbox. So it was the "first" PS1 game I never bought. That and Dog Sheep and Wolf.

I played the shit out of the first one growing up, and the reason I never got to this one is kinda funny. We had this videogame store downtown, and the guy was nice enough to let us try the games out before buying. When I first booted this game, I honestly thought it was a bootleg version of the first one. For whatever reason, I did not think this one was legit. Admitedly, I was young and dumb, and we didn't have "the internet", and I didn't even go past the first level, but still, this one just didn't convince me. I bought Tarzan instead, I it freaking rocked. Love that game.

I actually like this one better than the first one.

I feel it was more forgotten then Spider-man 2000 due to the level designs.. In Enter Electro the levels just were not as fun as the first... Like in the first game "bank robberies" "police chases" "going through tunnels chasing down venom".... Compared Enter Electro like "finding keys for a bomb" "Disabling gun turrents" "stopping a plane" "all the puzzle like levels" surely you catch my drift.... Like I find myself completing Spider-man 2000 from first level to last level around 40 minutes and never get bored, where with Enter Electro I play through a few levels and get bored and turn the game off to play something else.. What's your opinion on that @Kelphelp ? Would be interested too know your thoughts

They used all the badass characters in the first game: venom, carnage, doc ock, scorpion and tried to follow it up with characters that to me just dont really seem as badass: shocker, hammerhead, electro. That's what kinda killed it a little for me.

I loved both of them, but the first will always be preferred. I loved the fire and ice webs in the second though

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the music isn't spider man 2k but it's still a lot better than most games. that shocker theme? the corkscrew????

The main menu music in this game I find better than the first, more catchy

I think the game was forgotten because it was released late in the PS1's life span, plus the PS2 came out only a year before.

Modern remakes of these would be nice

Well, i forgot because they only released it for ps1 and I had a PC as a kid :) Always wanted to play it and when I rented a PS1 I got it... and the game stuttered and lagged xD I should try it again these days :D

Damnit. People remembered. It's 50 bucks now

I LOVED the spider man 2000 game, venom was and is my favorite spider man character and he looked so bad ass in part 1 and turned invisible how cool is that. But I got spider man 1 the Sam rami movie game for the GameCube instead Of spider man 2 enter electro and I have got to say it’s nuts looking at the difference in graphics. It’s night and day. The spider man movie graphics look almost real compared to enter electro. And plus I’m willing to bet spider man 1 the movie game was better over all. That game will always be one of my favorites and spider man 2 the movie game is considered one of the greatest spider man games ever made

I actually prefer this game over the first one and I also loved the music in this game as well because it fitted the game very well in my opinion and I actually kinda preferred it over the first game tbh...

Yeah it's because it was a year into the 6th generation and people slowly started to move into the new gen.

This was a good game, but no one talks about it because the Spider-man 2 movie game was so amazing.

yo i never forgot about this shit

Create a Spiderman? I don't remember this feature.

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro isn't a prequel to the 2000 Spider-Man game, it's a sequel. EDIT: It's weird that you said it's a prequel and then later say it's a sequel without acknowledgement of your mistake.

Okay you glossed over some things, but here goes. First of all the game did come out after 9/11 so that affected it's sales. But, the game was not properly advertised as the first one was. I found out about it because it was in the stores. 2nd, this game came out after PS2 was released. When this game was released people were interested in GTA III and Final Fantasy X. Not to mention Gamecube and Xbox were coming out. You can see how this game fell to the sidelines. Third: the movie game has already been announced. The movie game came out 5 months later. It actually came out before the movie and rumor has it that it created problems by spoiling the story. But that's another story. 4th: The story in this game wasn't as fun as the first one. The boss battles weren't as fun and it just didn't catch. So there you have it.

I remember this game and it feels it came in too late. I like the Game. But not as good as the original. Also there is no Port at all like PC or other platform. I use to eat the SPIDERMAN Cereal. And it has a Offer for a Free copy of SPIDERMAN 1 (PC port) for Free.

Fucking love Spider-man 2 Enter Electro.

It's because the PS1 was on the way out when this game released. The PS2 had been out for nearly a year when this game released.

Vicarious Visions didn't make Jedi Outcast, Ravensoft did?

i like this one more then the first spider man game on ps1

I loved this game, honestly! I just recently started playing it again

Could this game perhaps be a cult favorite?

Nice

Oh not the music, oh no you didn't!

I think there are 3 major factors here as to why nobody talks about this game 1. The first game was far more memorable 2. Unlike the first game, this was only available on the ps1, so less people were able to play it at the time 3. There’s little to nothing this sequel did to be better than the first game, it looks better and has its own story, but what else? What makes this a necessary experience if you have the first game?

This among with Spyro 2 were my first games ever

I actually played this game before i played the first one

This isn't a prequel.

The web yank was in spider man 2000

Probably cos it was ps1 exclusive but the first was on pc and n64 too

X men mutant academy 2 was promoting it too!

It's 2001 it's been a year since the sony playstation 2 came out in 2000 so people are more focused on the PS2

I liked the soundtrack of the game...

I haven't played neither.