The Longest Spider-Man Games

Everyone’s favorite friendly neighborhood webhead has made nearly as big an impact on video games as he has on comics. While most heroes have had the odd popular games, Spider-Man is one of the few to have a wide range of fondly remembered classics. The Insomniac games are wowing fans today, but they’re built on the ground set by their predecessors.

Some fans might like to check out his older games and see how they compare to his latest ones. But how much time are they going to take? Which ones can players breeze through, and which ones are going to be a considerable commitment? Following data taken from HowLongtoBeat.com, these are the longest Spider-Man games around.

10 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

Main: 7 Hours. Main & Extras: 8 Hours. Completionist: 13 ½ Hours

Both Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro last approximately as long as each other, with both taking about 7 hours to complete their main campaigns, and maybe an hour longer if players took a few detours along the way. But Enter Electro gets the nod as, if players wanted to beat both games 100%, the sequel takes an hour longer at 13 ½ hours.

Enter Electro introduced ground levels to the PS1 series, albeit in limited grid-based sections. Spidey tries to stop Electro’s master plan to boost his powers via the Bio-Nexus device, all this while tackling the likes of Shocker, Hammerhead, and Sandman, with help from the X-Men. However, it got a cooler reception than its predecessor due to its more rote story.

9 Spider-Man: Edge Of Time

Main: 7 Hours. Main & Extras: 9 ½ Hours. Completionist: 12 ½ Hours

Speaking of sequels, Spider-Man: Edge of Time follows up on Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, as the webhead rejoins forces with Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Man Noir, and Ultimate Spider-Man to keep space and time from falling apart (again). Each Spider-Man has his own spider-quirks too, from Spider-Man’s hyper-sense to Spider-Man 2099’s holo-clones.

However, they’re the only two playable Spider-Men. The story focuses more on them as they try to secure the timeline against Anti-Venom and Dr. Octopus. Noir and Ultimate have their appearances limited to cutscenes. As such, it’s a much shorter experience than Shattered Dimensions, being just barely longer than Enter Electro.

8 Spider-Man 2

Main: 7 Hours. Main & Extras: 15 ½ Hours. Completionist: 39 ½ Hours

Movie tie-in games used to be the norm and were usually mediocre because of their limited development time, but Treyarch’s Spider-Man movie games caught on quite well. Especially Spider-Man 2, as it took Spidey out of the PS1-style set levels and into an open-world setting. It basically created the formula the Insomniac games and others have since followed.

It has similar beat ‘em up gameplay, but with a plot that follows the Spider-Man 2 movie, with the movie’s cast reprising their roles (for better or worse). The game also has plenty of side missions and activities that expand the Raimi-verse and stretch the game’s length. The story campaign is brief, but completionists will have up to 40 hours of fun cleaning up New York City of crime.

7 Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

Main: 7 ½ Hours. Main & Extras: 12 ½ Hours. Completionist: 18 ½ Hours

Despite the Arabic numeral in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, it’s actually the third entry in Insomniac’s series. Among them is Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, where players help the second Spider-Man fill in for the first and become a hero in his own right as he tackles Roxxon Corporation’s criminal conspiracy and the machinations of the Tinkerer.

Still, fans might be forgiven for forgetting it, as it’s a rather brief game. Players can complete its main campaign in less than half the time of the other Insomniac Spider-games, and its extras don’t stretch it out much either. Still, it's probably better off as a short and sweet experience than one packed with filler. If only it was priced as such, as its $50 price tag was a lot to ask for on its release date.

6 Spider-Man 3

Main: 8 Hours. Main & Extras: 12 ½ Hours. Completionist: 17 ½ Hours

Spider-Man 3 continued where Spider-Man 2 left off in both story and gameplay. The movie’s actors came back to reprise their roles, with varying degrees of enthusiasm (Bruce Campbell even narrated the tutorial sections). The game also brought back the open world of Manhattan, side missions and activities, and beat ‘em up gameplay, with a new Rage mechanic for stronger attacks.

The length of play time is based on the PS3/360/PC version, which had better graphics and an extra playable character in the New Goblin. Yet while its story campaign was a little longer, it didn’t have as many extras as Spider-Man 2. Raimi-verse versions of Kraven the Hunter, the Lizard, and Scorpion, among others, turn up and equal up to only 10 or so extra hours of gameplay.

5 The Amazing Spider-Man

Main: 8 ½ Hours. Main & Extras: 13 ½ Hours. Completionist: 21 ½ Hours

With director Sam Raimi out of the picture after Spider-Man 3, Sony rebooted the Spider-Man movies with The Amazing Spider-Man, which turned out to be anything but. Its movie tie-in game took a different approach too, as Beenox (who ported Treyarch’s games to PC) told an original story where Spidey has to work with the Lizard to stop Alistair Smythe.

Gameplay-wise, it’s also an open-world game with side missions, but Spidey now fights similarly to Batman in the Arkham games, with its freeflow combat and counterattacks, albeit with a neat ‘Web Rush’ mode for zipping from enemy to enemy, point to point. It offered more bang for its buck, though it wasn’t much longer or better than the Spider-Man 3 game.

4 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Main: 10 Hours. Main & Extras: 12 Hours. Completionist: 25 Hours

Just because a game gets a lukewarm reception, or is merely okay, doesn’t mean it can’t be influential. Without Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, the Spider-Verse likely wouldn’t have come to be. Dan Slott’s story for the game inspired his later Spider-Verse comics, which led to the Spider-Verse movies, and Spider-Man: No Way Home’s own dimensional fiddling.

Instead of offering an open world, Spider-Mans Noir, Ultimate, 2099, and Classic go through levels tailored to their individual quirks (Spidey Noir is good at stealth, Ultimate has the symbiote suit, etc.) To restore balance to the spacetime continuum. All this is done at a decent length too, with a 10-hour main campaign, and a much longer 25-hour trek for completionists.

3 Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows

Main: 10 Hours. Main & Extras: 12 Hours. Completionist: 20 ½ Hours

As the longest non-Insomniac game, people might remember Spider-Man: Web of Shadows for the meme of Spidey walking morosely as his fellow heroes fight off an army of symbiotes. Or, if players chose to do so, they could make Spidey give in to the symbiote and take over New York City, with Black Cat by his side.

There are happier endings, where Spidey saves the city and gets back with Mary Jane, but they’re rather ho-hum in comparison, as was the gameplay, which wasn’t exactly a step-up from the Treyarch games. Still, if players gave it a shot, they’d find its main campaign just as busy as Shattered Dimensions, and almost as long through its extras too.

2 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Main: 17 hours. Main & Extras: 23 ½ Hours. Completionist: 28 Hours

Insomniac’s Spider-Man games took all that worked about the older Spidey games, added a more cinematic polish, and told stories that really plucked the heartstrings once they hit their climax. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 continues that formula, as Peter Parker and Miles Morales deal with Kraven the Hunter as he starts hunting both them and their rogues gallery down.

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Both Spider-Men have separate objectives and missions, along with individual power-ups, gadgets, and regular human partners as those stealth sections make a comeback. They alone might add to its 17-hour story campaign for some players, not to mention all the extras. Cleaning up Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens completely will take players 28 hours.

1 Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Main: 18 Hours. Main & Extras: 29 ½ Hours. Completionist: 44 ½ Hours

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was initially going to be followed up with some DLC like Marvel’s Spider-Man. These plans were scrapped, likely because they’re going to be consolidated into their own Venom: Lethal Protector spin-off, but nobody knows for sure. This means the first game is now technically the longest Spider-Man game out there.

Even without the DLC, MSM1 would tie with MSM2 in its campaign length, and outlast it in extras, offering 35 hours of gameplay for completionists. However, since its Remastered edition comes with everything a la its Game of the Year release, even players seeking to breeze through it will be kept busy for at least 18 hours. That’s more than enough arachnid-based fun for anyone.

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