Spider-Man

This game, a tribute to the classic Marvel series "What If?", includes a "What If?" mode presented by the Watcher (as in the original comics) and accessed through a password screen. With the mode active, you can play the game and observe the (mostly comical) changes that occur. The changes range from trivial alterations to complete departures from the original premise. The mode is not available in the Nintendo 64 version.

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Daran Norris voices both Captain America and the Human Torch. Both roles were later played by actor Chris Evans.

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If you run the game in "What If?" mode without doing anything, Spider-Man lies down and falls asleep. Sometimes he sings as well.

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The PlayStation's hardware limitations made creating a more detailed version of New York impossible. To mask this, a fog effect was added to the ground, and the developers decided to make it part of the story.

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When Spider-Man wears the Unlimited costume (which grants the power of invisibility), he can turn invisible during the bank levels and walk up to the robbers to listen to them exchange small bits of dialogue with each other.

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If the demo screen is left on long enough, Spider-Man is seen through a gun barrel, as in the openings of James Bond films, and a gunshot streaks toward the screen.

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During the "What If?" mode, other Marvel characters can be seen in the background, including the Watcher (who introduces the "What If?" mode), the Silver Surfer (when Spider-Man is chased by the police and rides the exploration balloon), Ghost Rider (seen very briefly riding down the side of a building at the very start of the "Race to the Bugle" level) and the Sub-Mariner (seen outside during the underwater battle with Carnage). The Sub-Mariner even has an entry in the game's character database.

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In some versions of the game (but not the Dreamcast version), entering "RULUR" as a cheat code causes J. Jonah Jameson to be replaced throughout the game by Neversoft's own J. James Jewett (who also has an entry in the game's character database).

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If profanity is entered in the cheats menu, Spider-Man appears at the bottom of the screen and slaps him. All profane words entered as file names are also automatically replaced with other words (e.g. "sugar").

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Monster-Ock is one of the few Spider-Man villains created solely for a video game. It is also a fusion of two characters (Doc Ock and Carnage).

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At the end of Spider-Man's fight with Scorpion, while Jonah blames Spider-Man, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (2000) is playing on the television on the ground.

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The "Missile Attack" level features an advertisement for the Jefry Swinger show, on which Captain America is to appear as a guest.

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Monster-Ock was originally named Super Ock and had a different design from the final version. Initially Monster-Ock had sunglasses, red skin, orange clothing and gold-colored mechanical arms. In the final version the design was changed substantially: the sunglasses were removed and its appearance was redesigned to resemble Carnage. In the final game, however, Monster-Ock's icon still shows it with sunglasses while it chases Spider-Man.

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The game was initially prepared by Treyarch as a PlayStation 2 remake, but it was scrapped in favor of making video games based on Sam Raimi's films.

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In the Item Hunt training course, if you collect all the tokens above ground, go underground and pass through the door marked "?". Within a minute you enter the Kraven room, based on Kraven the Hunter, one of Spider-Man's oldest enemies in the comics.

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In the game's first demo version, Black Cat has her own distinctive face mask and a different voice. This could be a temporary music track for the demo until Jennifer Hale was available to record, or an entirely different actress who was later replaced by Hale.

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In the game's final scene, all the villains are in a prison cell. There is a poster of a woman wearing Mysterio's helmet on her face. This model is actually Sable from the WWF. The same image was twice the size on the VHS cover in the late '90s.

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Although the Marvel character Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner, appears in the Character Viewer, he does not appear in the game, at least through normal means. While playing the game's "What if?" mode, he makes a cameo during the battle with Carnage in Doc Ock's underwater base.

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There is a tie-in comic book made by Marvel.

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Iron Man was planned to appear in this game, but the appearance was cancelled.

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The game premiered in 2000, the same year as the X-Men: Evolution animated series and the live-action film X-Men.

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Neversoft used the same engine it had previously used to make Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (1999).

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