Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

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Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
Developer(s) Vicarious Visions
Publisher(s) Activision
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Beat-em-up
Mode(s) Single player
Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone
Platform(s) PlayStation

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro is the second PlayStation game to feature Spider-Man, this game follows the web-slinger as he attempts to stop the villain Electro from obtaining a source of power called the Bio-Nexus Device. Game bosses included Hammerhead, Lizard, Sandman, Shocker and the exclusive charged-up Hyper-Electro.

Contents

[edit] Voice actors

[edit] Plot Set-Up

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The threat of the Symbiote Invasion is over, and Doctor Octopus and his goons are once again behind bars. The city, and the people that call it home, can collectively breath a sigh of relief. Or can they? Evil abhors a vacuum, and with Doc Ock gone, can it really be that long before another rises in his place?

Unaware that her work has drawn the attention of sinister forces, Dr. Watts has developed the Bio-Nexus device, a miraculous new invention that would give any man or woman unspeakable power. In the hands of the one such as Electro, who knows what deviltry may be wrought. Electro, for one, intends to find out.

Electro arrives at Bio-Tech, the place where Dr Watts works and electrifies one security guard and two scientists. He then steals the Bio-Nexus device. More guards appear and Electro gives out an electric explosion. When all the guards were knocked out, Electro hisses, 'Soon...' he rockets out of Bio-Tech and escapes.

Later,after some activities of how the players can control Spidey, he confronts a a cloaked figure who robbed a bank. The cloaked figure escapes on a motorcycle and Spidey plants a spider-tracer on the motorcycle. Spidey beats up a few thugs who terrorize the city and then followed the signal of his tracer. On the way, Spidey fights hired goons and stopped several machine guns before he arrived at where his signal of the tracer ends: a warehouse.

Spidey once again beats up thugs and then asked one what he knew. The thug said,'I ain't telling you spit.' Spidey threathens the thug by hanging him with a webline. The thug gave up and said, '...they said something about hangar 18. That's all I know, I swear!'

Spidey let the thug down and he was charged down by the cloaked figure: Shocker. Spidey defeated Shocker by hitting him with crates and barrels. Spidey left Shocker for the police. Spidey figured out that the thug was talking about the hangar 18 at the airfield.

On the way to the airfield, Spidey was attacked by several mercenaries. The mercenaries activated a bomb and Spidey had to find four keys to deactivate the bomb. Spidey then continued his journey to the airfield.

[edit] Trivia

  • Entering the code "VVISIONS" will unlock "What If..." mode, changing various things in the game. For example, when Spider-Man has to fight the gang of thugs (just before battling Shocker), the barrels and crates will change into giant cans labeled 'Spidey-Soup" and wrapped gifts, respectively.
  • The game starts with a "Previously..." cutscene, which recaps the events of the previous game.
  • Likewise, it ends with the villains of this game locked in a jail cell together. In the next cell are the villains from the previous game. Humorously, Shocker asks if the old incarcerated knew how to play "Go Fish".
  • Like the previous game's final boss battle, "Monster Ock" (Doc Ock bonded with Carnage), this game features a never-before-seen enemy: "Hyper-Electro" (Electro with the Bio Nexus device equipped).
  • If the name entered at the beginning of the game is profanity, Spider-man will appear and punch the cursor back to 'A'.
  • The original version of the game was pulled after the September 11, 2001 attacks to change the final battle. Originally the battle was atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center, but since the towers were destroyed on September 11, the game was re-released with a different ending. Originally, Electro shouted "Top of the world, ma!" as he departed his battle with Spider-Man for the towers, giving Spidey the clue he needed to track him down for the final boss battle, but in the re-released game, he just happens to guess correctly.
  • The cutscene where Hammerhead discusses the importance of teamwork in their plan to stop Spider-Man is quoted from Robert De Niro's character Al Capone in the movie 'The Untouchables'.

[edit] Costumes

All costumes not in the previous game are in italics.

  • Normal costume
  • Spider-Phoenix - Invincibility,Triple Swing,Double Strength
  • Prodigy - Triple Swing
  • Dusk - Stealth Mode
  • Insulated Suit - Triple Swing,Impervious to Electricity
  • Alex Ross (red)
  • Alex Ross (white)
  • Negative Zone
  • Venom 2-Earth X
  • Symbiote Spidey - Unlimited webbing
  • Spider Man 2099
  • Captain Universe
  • Spiderman Unlimited - Stealth
  • Amazing Bag Man
  • Scarlet Spider
  • Ben Reilly
  • Quick Change
  • Peter Parker
  • Battle Damaged

[edit] Bosses

  • Shocker: Herman Schultz used his time in prison to create vibro-shock weaponry. Now he uses them to further his career in crime as the Shocker.
  • Sandman: Fugitive William Baker hide from the law in an atomic test range, where a freak accident turned him into the Sandman.
  • Hammerhead: Dr. Jonas Harrow saved him from an injury by implanting an adamantium plate into his head. Now Hammerhead rules the mafia with an iron hand.
  • Lizard: A victim of his own genius, Curt Connors now occasionally transforms into the ferocious Lizard.
  • Electro: Max Dillon was working on a powerline, when lighting hit him. By a miracle he survived, and was reborn as a menacing super-villain.
  • Hyper Electro: After merging with the Bio-Nexus device, Electro became pure energy. He can even control lighting from the sky for evil.
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