"Spider-Man 3" is a video game based on the Spider-Man 3 film. It was released May 4, 2007. The scenario draws from the film, Spider-Man comics and the Marvel Universe. The game features nine villains on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, 6 villains on the GBA and DS,and eight on the Wii, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2, including the movie's primary villains Venom, New Goblin, and Sandman.
Video game magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly was slated to have a worldwide exclusive story on the game for its October 2006 issue, going so far as to promote the exclusive in the previous issue. The issue instead shipped with a Guitar Hero II lead story, and a note from the Editor-in-Chief Dan Hsu stating that readers should "blame director Sam Raimi" for the change in content. A similar story was instead featured in the April 2007 issue of Game Informer.
Spider-Man 3 has been released on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. Treyarch developed the PlayStation 3 & Xbox 360 version of the game, and Beenox ported this version of the game to PC. The remaining versions of the game were developed by Vicarious Visions.
Many gameplay elements have been added or revised for this title in the series:
* Manhattan is much bigger than in Spider-Man 2 and the game features over 20 miles of sewers and subways, although only in the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game.
* Spider-Man has a brand new combat system that was worked from the ground up and includes more aerial moves and web attacks. These moves are in all versions of the game. For the Wii, the motion sensors are used during combat: the Wii Remote is used as Spider-Man's fists and the Nunchuk is used to dodge attacks.
* In the Wii version, the motion sensors are also used for web-slinging as well as combat. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk are used as Spidey's right and left hands respectively. It is possible to switch to a left handed mode, so that the Wii Remote is used as Spidey's left hand, in the options menu.
* Part of the game puts the player in control of the Black Suited Spider-Man where Spider-Man's combat system has more brutal moves and a "Rage" system that allows aggressive moves.
* The game features cineractives that are button sensitive. Game director Chris Archer explained that all the gameplay is playable, including what would be included as a cinematic Scorpion can also be a playable character in spider-man 3 in a minigame. Wikipedia
