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Spider-Man Demo Follow-up

[Jun 05, 2004, 1:53 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Spider-Man Demo Not Kosher on IGN is a story summarizing the buzz surrounding the recent PC demo for Spider-Man 2. In a rare twist, apparently the PC version is the dumbed-down edition of the game: "On PC, Spider-Man 2 features brighter graphics more reminiscent of a cartoon than the movie. And, though it also features a familiar storyline with familiar characters, it boasts a kid friendly, intentionally simplified control scheme that's not for the hardcore amongst us." There's even more new info on all this on GameSpot, where they have figured out where it actually came from, which was apparently not the Russian soft drink company as we believed:

However, the demo's origin is much closer to home--Battle Creek, Michigan, to be exact. The Midwestern town is the headquarters of Kellogg's, the food multinational and maker of Cheez-Its. As it turns out, the Spider-Man 2 PC demo is being released exclusively as a Cheez-It promotion; send in two UPCs from boxes of the deliciously caloric crackers and you'll get a demo disc of the game. While the promotion's exclusivity would explain why many sites yanked the demo yesterday, it doesn't explain why its splash screen listed the game's developer as Fizz Factor (The Hobbit) instead of Treyarch. That's because Spider-Man 2 for the PC will be a totally different game than its PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube siblings. According to reports, Spider-Man 2 for the PC will be a child-oriented, mass-market game along the lines of Finding Nemo, instead of the open-ended, Grand Theft Auto-style console game.

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Jun 5, 2004, 17:07

Bill Borre

Yes, this is a very depressing development for me. As a long time comics fan, and a 37 year old PC gamer, I always look forward to comics-based computer games. The first blow was no PC version of X-men: Legends and now this. The demo was very poor and I certainly won't be buying this game. Activision must want to drive me to suicide. Oh well, at least we still have that first Spider-man game. That was a great game

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Comment [quote="Bill Borre"Jun 5, 2004, 17:07]Yes, this is a very depressing development for me. As a long time comics fan, and a 37 year old PC gamer, I always look forward to comics-based computer games. The first blow was no PC version of X-men: Legends and now this. The demo was very poor and I certainly won't be buying this game. Activision must want to drive me to suicide. Oh well, at least we still have that first Spider-man game. That was a great game :) [/quote]

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