Spider-Man: Web of Shadows (2024)

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows
Developed by:	Treyarch/Shaba Games (PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) Aspyr (PC) Amaze Entertainment (PS2, PSP) Griptonite Games (DS)
Released by:	Activision
Release Date:	{{{release date}}}
Available on:	Microsoft Windows Nintendo DS PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable (PSP) Wii Xbox 360
Mode(s):	Single-player
ESRB Rating:	T for Teen
Predecessor:	None
Sequel:	None

Spider-Man: Web of Shadowsis a video game featuringSpider-Manand other characters in the Marvel Comicsuniverse, includingMary Jane Watson,Venom, andBlack Cat. The game was released on October 21, 2008 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2,Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, and Wii.

Plot[]

The game opens with Spider-Man looking for Mary Jane Watson. During this time, the city of New York is also infested with symbiotes. Spider-Man finds Mary Jane with Luke Cage. However, Spider-Man is attacked by a mysterious figure. Then a flashback occurs to four days prior where Spider-Man encounters Venom. However, during the encounter, a part of Venom's symbiote attaches onto Spider-Man resulting in giving him his symbiote suit. He easily overpowers Venom and it results with Venom fleeing. Spider-Man then goes to see an injured Mary Jane who is put inside an ambulance and sent to the hospital. Spider-Man can also now switch between the red suit and the black suit immediately. Spider-Man follows the ambulance to the hospital. However, thugs and gang members drive to the hospital and cause havoc. Luckily, Luke Cage comes and helps Spider-Man take down the thugs.

Spider-Man then works on taking down the gang war between the Rolling 7s and the Park Avenues in Harlem. Luke Cage also trains Spider-Man by teaching him skills. Later, Luke Cage invites the leaders of the Rolling 7s and the Park Avenues to a parley. Outside the place of the meeting, Spider-Man discovers high-tech assassins on top of buildings aiming their guns at the building. Spider-Man takes them down and finds out that the gang war was a setup and that the war was planned. During the parley, the two gang leaders point their guns at each other. The player can now choose between the red suit and the black suit. If the player chooses the black suit, Spider-Man will let them and their gang members fight each other and then Spider-Man will kill all of the thugs and the gang leaders. After Luke Cage finds out that the gang war was a setup, he gets furious at Spider-Man and Spider-Man says that they deserved to die. If the player chooses the red suit, Spider-Man will show to the gang leaders that the gang war was a setup and it was planned. Then the two gang leaders will stop the gang war and make peace.

Spider-Man then decided to find out who the assassins were working for so he decides to go to Fisk Tower to see if Kingpin set up the gang war. He ends up confronting the Black Cat, who seems to be working with Kingpin. After a brief battle, Black Cat reveals she is working for Kingpin. The duo joins forces with Moon Knight in order to stop Kingpin's illicit activities. After a fight with Vulture, Spider-Man runs into many of Kingpin's henchman on top of the Daily Bugle. They are attacked by civilians infected by symbiotes. A news helicopter spots Spider-Man throwing one of the civilians off the building, their affliction unknown to the police.

The police now believe that Spider-Man is a murderer. Wolverine, believing Spider-Man is infected by the symbiote himself, accosts him in Hell's Kitchen. After a battle the two eventually settle their differences and begin hunting down infected civilians together. Spider-Man discovers Venom throwing people into symbiote pods, transforming them into monsters. After a city-wide battle, Venom escapes, but many of the pods are destroyed. A S.H.I.E.L.D. team, led by Black Widow, arrives and quarantines the city of New York, setting up camps for the symbiote-controlled citizens. Electro attacks one of the camps searching for his sister, Spiderman defeats him, but he is then shot by Black Widow while spiderman reprimands Black Widow for her actions Electro sister gives her symbiote to him to heal him infecting him in the process.

Spider-Man devises a plan to break Tinkerer out of Ryker's Island to use his scientific genius to find a countermeasure to the symbiotes. After doing a number of support efforts by Black Widow, Moon Knight, King Pin, and defeating symbiote controlled Electro, Spiderman then helps Wolverine clear a church of civilians out of the area and Wolverine himself is affected. Spider-Man is able to free him of it. Spider-Man goes looking for Mary Jane. After finding her, he helps her, and Luke Cage clear out Harlem. He visits a building where he finds a symbiote-controlled Black Cat, apparently the leader of the hive. He defeats her, and the Tinkerer completes his device.

Spider-Man now has a choice. He can activate the device, killing off all of the symbiotes, or become governed by the Black Suit. He then responds to an attack on a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, with Venom as the perpetrator.

(Depending on your actions) Spider-Man enlists either Moon Knight or Vulture to carry him to the Helicarrier. He sets a bomb to destroy the ship, but is confronted by Venom in the form of a five headed monster. Spider-Man destroys four of the heads, and then either gets Eddie Brock to help him defeat the symbiotes, or kills Eddie.

During the "good" ending, Eddie Brock realizes the destruction of his alter ego, and sacrifices himself. During the "bad" ending, Spider-Man gets possessed by the Black Suit and murders Eddie, and destroys the symbiote.

Red/Hero ending - The following week, Spider-Man swings away with Mary Jane after describing his heroic actions.

Anti-hero ending - The following week, Spider-Man leaves an apology for his bad decisions on Mary Jane's voicemail.

Anti-villain ending - Spider-Man controls the city with the power provided by his Black Suit.

Black/Villain ending - Spider-Man controls the city with the power provided by his Black Suit, with the help of a symbiote-controlled Black Cat. It is revealed that Kingpin, Tinkerer, and Black Widow have joined forces to stop them by unleashing a symbiote-controlled Wolverine.

Characters[]

PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii storyline[]

Main Characters:[]

• Spider-Man

Supporting Characters:[]

• Black Cat
• S.H.I.E.L.D.
  • Black Widow
• Luke Cage
• Wolverine
• Mary Jane Watson
• Moon Knight

Villains:[]

• Electro
• Kingpin
• Rhino
• Tinkerer
• Venom
• Vulture
• Symbiotes

Other Characters:[]

• Iron Man
• Fantastic Four
  • Mr. Fantastic
  • Human Torch
• Beast
• Hank Pym
• A.I.M.
• HYDRA

Nintendo DS storyline[]

Main Characters:[]

• Spider-Man

Supporting Characters:[]

• Black Cat
• Nightcrawler

Villains:[]

• Green Goblin
• Venom
• Symbiote Leader
• Various Super-Symbiotes

PS2 and PSP storyline[]

Main Characters:[]

• Spider-Man

Supporting Characters:[]

• Black Cat
• Luke Cage
• Wolverine
• Moon Knight
• Nightcrawler
• Spider-Woman
• Storm
• Nick Fury
• Big Wheel

Villains:[]

• A.I.M.
• Kingpin
• Rhino
• Tinkerer
• Venom
• Vulture
• Electro
• Chtylok
• Doctor Octopus
• Galactus
• Hobgoblin
• Jackal
• Hypno-Hustler
• Mysterio
• Sandman
• Shocker
• Spencer Smythe
• Stilt-Man

Other Characters:[]

• Aunt May