Spider-Man Kellogg's Edition Differences Version 1.1.1 By Tempest of Shadows thoul@vgws.com ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ TABLE OF CONTENTS ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ A. Updates B. Legal Jazz C. Introduction - What is the Kellogg's Edition? - What is the purpose of this document? D. Game Differences - Billboards - Costumes - Ghost Rider and Black Cat - Comic Locations E. Movie Extras F. System Requirements G. Contact Info ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION A: UPDATES ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The most recent version of this document is available on my personal website. Check the Legal Jazz section of this document for more information. 05/23/2002 - Version 1.1.1 Added DLH.Net to the list of places with permission to add this file. 05/15/2002 - Version 1.1 Added a couple of Game Differences I had overlooked (opening movie and comic book covers). Added NeoSeeker to the list of places with permission to add this file. 05/13/2002 - Version 1.0 First edition; everything is new. All differences were observed on the Normal difficulty setting. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION B: LEGAL JAZZ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This document is ¸ 2002 Jeremy Rogers (aka Tempest of Shadows), all rights reserved. Spider-Man, the character, is ¸ 2002 Marvel Characters, Inc. Spider-Man, the movie, is ¸ 2002 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Spider-Man, the game, is ¸ 2001-2002 Activision, Inc. and it's affiliates. As of this version, the only sites that have permission to post this document are the following: My personal site: http://www.cyborg-central.com/~pd/ GameFAQs: http://www.gamefaqs.com NeoSeeker: http://www.neoseeker.com DLH.Net: http://dlh.net That's it; no one else can post this document without asking for my permission first. If you do want to post this document on another site, feel free to ask; in most cases, I'll grant permission as long as the document is kept intact. Please provide the address of the site you want to post the document on when asking, though. The most recent version of this document is likely to be found in two places: the "Jazz" section of my personal site, as listed, above, and GameFAQs, as listed above. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION C: INTRODUCTION ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ----What is the Kellogg's Edition of Spider-Man? In April 2002, specially marked boxes of Kellogg's cereals had offers for various Spider-Man merchandise related to the Spider-Man movie released the following month. One piece of this merchandise was a "Free CD-ROM," offered free in exchange for some UPCs and milk receipts. Included on this CD are promotional materials for the Spider-Man movie, the PlayStation 2 game based on the movie, and a new version of the Spider-Man game originally released on the PlayStation (PSOne) by Neversoft and Activision. That same Spider-Man game was also released on the Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, and Windows platforms. The game on the CD is a new version of the Windows game, and in turn is also based on the Dreamcast version. I call this CD, specifically the new version of the Spider-Man game on the CD, the "Kellogg's Edition" of Spider-Man. ----What is the purpose of this document? The purpose is to list the differences between the Kellogg's Edition of Spider-Man and the other versions. I have only played the original PlayStation game, so most of my comments on the differences will be related to that version. Since all the non-Kellogg's versions of the game are, as far as I know, fairly similar, this should also hopefully hit any differences between the Kellogg's Edition and all other versions of the game. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION D: GAME DIFFERENCES ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ There are several differences between the Kellogg's Edition of Spider-Man and previous versions. The first one that will be noticed is the title screen. It's been replaced with a title screen based on the Spider-Man movie, showing Spidey sticking to the side of a skyscraper. The remixed version of the classic Spider-Man cartoon theme is still present. When the music runs it's course, the game does not switch to a demo as on the PlayStation. The second difference noticed will be Spider-Man's costume; see the Costumes part of this section for details on that. The third difference is that half of the in-game menu is not available. The Training, High Scores, Special, and Gallery options are grayed out, and clicking on them displays a message saying that option is "disabled in the demo." New Game, Options, and Quit are available. The Continue option is also grayed out, but only until you load a saved game or quit during a level. As a result of all this, you cannot access the character viewer, comic collection, cheats, costumes, or any of that good stuff. Another difference is that this is, as you might have guessed by now, just a demo of the full Windows game. This is what really stinks in my opinion; you get a nice looking new costume, but you can't go very far with it. Since this is only a demo, you don't get to play all the levels of the full game. There are 12 levels, with the last being the Rhino boss fight. After that level, you get a splash screen advertising the Spider-Man: the Movie game for PlayStation 2. Next, when you start a New Game, the game goes straight to the opening pan of the first level. The beginning FMV of Doc Ock's machine being stolen is removed. Also, Stan Lee's voice over during the aforementioned opening pan has been removed. Finally, the comic book covers that appeared before some levels don't show up in the game. ----Billboards The various billboards shown throughout the game have been changed from their original content, with two exceptions. The exceptions are the Captain America and Fantastic[a n t i t h e f t - t h o u l a t v g w s d o t c o m]Four billboards on the Missile Attack level. The Wolverine and Hulk billboards on that level are replaced with publicity shots of Spidey for the Spider-Man movie. All the other billboards are replaced with one of the following: - "got milk?" boards: There are several variations, all are black, white, and at least use the "got milk?" catchphrase. - Kellogg's boards: There are two, total: one for Pop Tarts on the last board before the Daily Bugle on the Race to the Bugle level, and one for Eggos in the Police Evaded level. - Spider-Man movie boards: Three variations; one has the movie logo next to Spidey's eye, another has the movie logo laid over a red spider symbol, and a third has the movie logo overlaid on a web pattern. The voice-overs associated with the old billboards (Tony Hawk, Carnage, the Lizard, etc.) appear to be gone. The trick of backtracking to the start of the Building Top Chase level still reveals a cheat code ("EGOTRIP"). ----Costumes There are only two costume options in this game. Since you can't access the costumes gallery in the Special menu, you're stuck with them. The first is Spidey's basic red and blues - or is it? Actually, it's the red and blue costume from the Spider-Man movie. That means that the eye lenses appear highly reflective (they have a blue tint), the big red spider on Spidey's back is different, the blue portions of the costume have a look that resembles scales, and the spider on Spidey's chest looks like the one in the movie. The second "costume" is the Spider-Armor. It's found on the ninth level, Building Top Chase, in the Green Goblin's crane lair with comic #7. The Spider-Armor is a white and black version of the classic red and blue Spider-Man suit - not the movie suit. The Spider-Armor lasts until Spidey's life meter runs out, at which time Spidey reverts to the movie costume with the same amount of life you had when you picked up the armor (or full life, if you've picked up a health icon in the armor). You also can lose the Spider-Armor if you fall off a building and die. In that case, though, if you had the Spider-Armor at the start of the level and Retry, you'll usually have the Spider-Armor again. During the game's FMV sequences, Spidey always wears the classic red and blue costume. Unlike the PlayStation's FMVs, this time the red and blue costume includes the black web pattern. ----Ghost Rider and Black Cat Remember Ghost Rider's cameo appearance in the original game's Race to the Bugle level in What If mode? Well, it appears in the normal version of the game here. Black Cat is pretty much the same as always, except now she has her mask on. (She doesn't wear it, or at least I couldn't see it, in the PlayStation game.) ----Comic Locations Comic locations appear to be the same as in the PlayStation game. I didn't collect all of the 10 comics that should be available up to the Rhino boss fight, but those that I did collect (1-4, 7-9) appear in the same locations. It's really kind of pointless, though, since you can't get into the Comic collection viewer. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION E: MOVIE EXTRAS ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Since this game is a promotion for the Spider-Man movie, it includes some extras from the movie. There's a trailer, some wallpapers, a screensaver, some other promotional videos and links to various Spider-Man movie or game related websites. To my knowledge, all of the extras, except the links, are available at http://sony.com/spider-man which is, of course, the movie website. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION F: SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ The system requirements for the game are provided here because otherwise, you won't know what they are until you get the game. Minimum System Requirements (Copied and Pasted from the README.txt): US English Language version of Microsoft Windows(r) 95/98/ME/2000 operating system 100% Windows 95/98/ME/2000 - compatible computer system DirectX(r) 8.0 or higher (included) Pentium(r) II 266 or Athlon(r) processor 64MB RAM 200 MB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files (Minimum Install); plus an additional 100 MB for Windows swap file 100% DirectX 8.0 compatible 4MB video card and Drivers (recommended 8MB video card and Drivers)* 100% DirectX 8.0 compatible true 16-bit sound card and Drivers Quad Speed (600 K/sec sustained transfer rate) CD-ROM 100% Microsoft-compatible mouse and Drivers 100% Microsoft-compatible keyboard and Drivers 100% Windows(r) 95/98/ME/2000-compatible Joystick or Gamepad (Optional) (Game Controller with 6 or more buttons recommended) One note: The game ran, if a bit slowly, on my PII 233. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ SECTION G: CONTACT INFO ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ If you have information to contribute to this document about anything I have missed or made a mistake on, feel free to inform me at thoul@vgws.com. I welcome any constructive comments that will improve this document or any future FAQs I might construct. Be sure to mention this Spider-Man FAQ, otherwise I won't know what you're talking about and will probably ignore you.