Ultimate Spider-Man's Venom Mechanics Were Kinda Messed Up
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Treyarch's underrated 2005 gem Ultimate Spider-Man innovated on the more iconic Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in in a number of ways, with the most significant being a playable and somewhat messed-up version of Venom. Based on seminal Ultimate Spider-Man comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley, Ultimate Spider-Man featured a cel-shaded version of New York and showcased the Ultimate Universe origin of Venom. Players could take control of both Peter Parker as Spider-Man and Eddie Brock's Venom, with the latter having a completely different style of gameplay. Venom's levels always lent towards mayhem and evil, but the way the character replenished his health was truly gruesome, with the game letting players chow down on New York City's civilians — including the balloon-carrying children from Spider-Man 2 — to repair the symbiote.
The third of Treyarch's Spider-Man games and the first to be inspired by the comics and not Sam Raimi's films, Ultimate Spider-Man was developed with the involvement of comic book creators Brian Bendis and Mark Bagley, with the game even emulating the latter's art-style. The Ultimate Spider-Man comic was itself developed in the early 2000s in a bid to modernize the character, and it went on to become one of the most
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