No Ending: In addition to missing a lot of details to better line up with the Spider-Man storyline, the Green Goblin story just sorta.stops.
Here, you can only temporarily immobilize them.
In that game however, you could actually defeat basic enemies by webbing them up.
Nerf: As mentioned this game uses many of the mechanics from Spider-Man (2000).
Named by the Adaptation: The Burglar is named "Spike" here, though that could just be an alias.
This harkens to the Arc Words of Kraven's Last Hunt: "They said my mother was insane."
Mythology Gag: In the Xbox-exclusive Kraven missions, Spider-Man jokingly asks if mental illness runs in his family.
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Lighter and Softer: The game has no blood and no profanity and sexual themes whatsoever compared to the movie it spawned from.
Lemony Narrator: Bruce Campbell is going to let doing his job get in the way of his lunch, and he will not hold back the sarcasm just either.
Pretty much every villain is having a blast.
Large Ham: The Vulture, The Scorpion, The Goblin.
Kinder and Cleaner: Compared to the movie, there is no profanity whatsoever.
I Just Want to Be Normal: During the fight against the Spider-Mechs, Scorpion yells about how much he hates his suit, and how much he longs to get rid of it someday.
Not to mention that you can throw enemies from rooftops and/or into electrified water.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Spidey can run out of webbing, despite the fact that in this universe, his web shooters are organic.
Expy: The droids that Norman Osborn sends out to hunt Spider-Man down are essentially the Spider-Slayers in all but name.
Easter Egg: Wearing the Alex Ross concept suit (unlocked by beating normal difficulty) also changes the Green Goblin's costume into a Ross design that resembles the comic version more.
It's also broken up into levels, instead of the open world game play Spider-Man games have become famous for. The web slinging mechanic retains the "web shoots in the sky" before Spider-Man 2 and other games evolved into webs sticking to the nearest building as a mechanic.
Early Installment Weirdness: The game is developed by Treyarch, so most of the combat is roughly based of the Spider-Man (2000).
Compressed Adaptation: The Goblin's attack at the parade and his attempt to enlist Spidey come one after the other here.
Completion Mockery: Beating the game has Peter Parker's last bit of ending narration urging you to go outside and play.
Colon Cancer: Sometimes the game is referred to as Spider-Man: The Movie: The Game.
Clown Car: Just how many goons did Shocker have in his van?.
Put two and two together and look at how this can become worse. Spider-Man and Mary Jane kiss in the ending. note One of the cheats in the game allow players to replace Spider-Man with Mary Jane in her red dress from the parade.
Bowdlerise: Later versions adapted out the infamous Girl-on-Girl kiss.
In fact, it's possible to get yourself killed by climbing to the top of the Chrysler Building and catching a lightning bolt.
Battle in the Rain: The fight with Vulture takes place in a driving thunderstorm.
He even shows some sinister qualities prior to becoming the Goblin, as he seeks to abduct Spider-Man and Scorpion so as to conduct presumably inhumane experiments on them.
Adaptational Villainy: Norman Osborn doesn't seem to be struggling quite so much with his split personality here as he does in the film.
Adaptational Badass: Uncle Ben's killer actually puts up a fight, unlike in the movie.
Adaptation Expansion: Spidey recovers jewels heisted by Shocker and the Vulture, rescues the Scorpion before fighting him in the sewers, has to disarm several bombs set across New York by the Green Goblin, and infiltrates OsCorp before fighting a Giant Mecha.
Adaptation Deviation: Besides the extra villains and subplots, some elements from the movie play out differently in the game notable examples including that Norman Osborn doesn't become the Green Goblin until just before the Unity Day Festival and that Uncle Ben's killer is depicted as a gang leader.
In addition to the film's plot, the game adds a number of additional storylines and enemies for Spider-Man to face.