Spider-Man 2

Web-swinging attached to real buildings made crossing the map its own reward.

Released 2004 Developer Treyarch Publisher Activision Platform PlayStation 2 Genre Open world action Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Space & Locomotion · 2004

Grapple & Tether Traversal

Grapple and tether traversal attaches the player to a point in the world and converts the resulting swing or pull into…

Origin: Spider-Man 2

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Spider-Man 2 inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Trailing Follow Camera ~~1996~~Analog Free-Roam 3D Movement ~~1996~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~

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