Spider-Man (2000)
If you’ve been raised on the current slate of Sony Spider-Man games, it’s probably impossible to look at Neversoft’s 2000 release featuring the wall-crawler and understand what all the fuss was about. At the time, however, it exploded onto the scene as one of the best superhero games ever made. It nailed the appeal of Spidey–his wisecracks, his decency, his abilities–and swept you up in a breathless adventure that had you swinging from New York City skyscrapers, battling supervillains on top of speeding subway trains, and tackling all kinds of other superhero setpieces. If you ask me, the lineage of great 3D Spider-games that’s still going today all started right here with this incredible achievement. — Carolyn Petit
