10 Spider-Man Games Where Every New Suit Changed More Than Just the Look

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One of the most iconic aspects of Spider-Man as a character, besides his snarky attitude and perpetual personal problems, is his classic red and blue web-patterned suit, under-arm web wings optional. That suit is so iconic, all you have to do is color a popsicle red, blue, and black, and people will recognize it as Spider-Man. While the red-and-blue original is an all-timer, though, it’s far from the only colors Web-Head has ever worn.

Spider-Man has worn a lot of different suits over the years, whether he developed them himself to deal with a particular villain, encountered them in extraordinary circumstances, or found them worn by a completely different spider-person. Since the suit is such a big part of Spider-Man’s identity, his fashion repertoire is often represented to various extents in his games, and while many of his virtual escapades have swappable skins for the fun of it, some go the extra mile and either give them narrative significance, gameplay-altering modifiers, or in some cases, both.

10 Spider-Man (1995)

The Classic Spider Armor

In Web of Spider-Man issue 98, a recent downfall of Kingpin prompted a new squad of supervillains called the New Enforcers to fill the power vacuum. In addition to their individual powers, this group was fond of high-caliber firearms, which Spidey’s costume obviously couldn’t handle. To make up the difference, Peter developed the original Spider-Armor, a metallic overlay that upped his defense in exchange for hampering his agility.

The reason I bring all that up is because, in the 1995 Spider-Man game for the Sega Genesis, the Spider-Armor makes a comeback, specifically as a power-up that increases Spidey’s defense for as long as it lasts. The New Enforcers aren’t in this game, so it’s more of an all-purpose boost than a specific reference, but it’s still a different suit, it offers a tangible gameplay change, and besides everything, I’ve always liked the look of the Spider-Armor. It’s shiny and plate-y and I wish he’d wear it again.

9 Spider-Man (2000)

Now in 3D!

The 2000 Spider-Man game for the PS1 was one of the more graphically-advanced Spider-Man games of its age, which meant that the devs were able to get a little more ambitious with Spidey’s look. The main game doesn’t feature any costume changes, save for a few brief moments when Peter takes off the costume for some undercover work and the return of the Spider-Armor as a power-up, but progressing in the story, completing certain secret objectives like collecting comic books, or entering cheat codes will unlock a small, yet healthy variety of alternate suits for you to use.

Besides the regular suit, you have the 2099 suit, which doubles your attack strength, the Symbiote suit, which gives you unlimited webbing, and the Captain Universe suit, which gives both of those abilities, plus complete invulnerability on top. There’s also the suit from Spider-Man Unlimited, which allows you to turn invisible, and a handful of joke costumes like the Amazing Bag Man, which limits you to just two web cartridges because Spidey doesn’t have his belt. You can also get Ben Reily’s two classic suits, which don’t have any abilities, but dang do they look good.

8 Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

Build-A-Spidey

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

Both the 2000 Spider-Man and its sequel, Enter Electro, were developed by Neversoft, best known for their work on the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series. One of Neversoft’s best additions to that series was the ability to create and customize your own skater, allowing players to tailor their experience a little more to their individual preferences. Since Spider-Man has worn so many suits, some with unique properties, there’s more than enough room there to do a little mixing and matching, and so, in an ambitious move, Neversoft attempted to apply a similar concept to Enter Electro.

Enter Electro features all the same unlockable suits as the previous game, unique abilities included, plus a few new suits like Spider-Phoenix, the Negative Zone suit, and the conceptual Alex Ross suit. In addition to unlocking these suits, both the suits themselves and their abilities could be used in the Create-a-Spider mode, in which you could choose any suit you liked and apply up to three extra powers to it, like unlimited webbing, enhanced strength, or invulnerability.

7 Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

Suits for Speccing

Okay, I’m cheating a little bit here, since Marvel: Ultimate Alliance isn’t exactly a “Spider-Man game,” per se. However, he does feature very prominently on the cover art and in the game’s story, including some of my favorite bits of dialogue in what is already a pretty amusing narrative, and more to the point, both he and every other playable hero (and a couple of villains) have swappable costumes with unique properties.

Spider-Man has four selectable costumes to choose from in Ultimate Alliance, the first being his default red-and-blue, and the other three being unlocked through side objectives and quests. His other suits include the Symbiote suit, Ben’s Scarlet Spider suit, and the original Stark Armor. Each costume has a set of three upgrades that you can freely power-up using collected experience points, with parameters like max health, webbing damage, damage reflection, and so forth. Picking the best costume is just as much about speccing for different situations as it is about fashion.

6 Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

The Suit is the Whole Point

Spider-Man: Web of Shadows

For those who don’t know, Spider-Man’s black Symbiote suit chronologically debuted in a Marvel Comics miniseries called Secret Wars, where a bunch of heroes and villains were sent to a parallel world to battle it out Fortnite-style. After Spidey’s usual suit got torn up, he used a weird machine he found, which spat out a black blob that turned into a new suit. He continued wearing this suit after Secret Wars ended, not knowing it was alive. Even if its original origin has been muddied, the Symbiote suit has been a recurring headache for Peter, arguably most of all in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows.

The entire crux of this game’s moral choice system is built around how willing Peter is to use the newly reacquired Symbiote suit versus sticking with the usual red-and-blue. Using the classic makes you faster and more agile, while using the Symbiote suit makes you hit harder, and you can switch between the two on the fly. Whenever you have to make a plot choice, the good and evil choices are represented by the red and black suits, respectively, with choosing the latter having Peter take on darker, more aggressive impulses.

5 Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Spiders Across Reality

Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions

Over the course of the Spider-Man IP’s lifespan, there were brief dalliances with alternate reality versions of the Web-Slinger, including Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, and Spider-Man Noir. It was in the 2010s, though, that the franchise really started going whole-hog with the idea of these realities intersecting, most predominantly with the Spider-Verse comics and first movie. Before all of that, Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions showed us the different dudes who wear the suit.

Shattered Dimensions’ campaign ping-pongs across four different realities, each with their own Spider in a unique suit with unique abilities. The Spider-Man we know wears the red-and-blue and serves as the baseline, Ultimate Spidey dons the Symbiote suit and can unleash its powers, 2099 Spidey’s suit gives him gliding and bullet-time abilities, and Noir’s slick fashion helps him blend into the dark. In addition to these suits, each Spider-Man also has unlockable cosmetic suits, though those don’t add anything to the story or gameplay.

4 The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Better than the First Movie’s Suit

Okay, full disclosure, I have not seen either of the Andrew Garfield Spider-Man movies. I didn’t hear good things about the first one, and if I didn’t watch the first, why would I watch the second? That said, I do have one nice thing to say about the second film specifically: Spider-Man’s suit in that film looks a lot better than the first film’s, and the same is true for its tie-in video game.

In that game, in addition to the default suit from the film available from the start, you unlock various additional suits by progressing the story and completing side objectives. In the same vein as Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, each suit has three highlighted stats, which provide greater bonuses over the other suits, such as webbing rate of fire, health regeneration, the range at which you can perform stealth takedowns, and more. As for the represented suits, we have a decent spread of newer fits, including the Superior Spider-Man, the Big Time suit, the Spider-Armor MKII, and two of Peter’s alternate hero identities from the comics, Hornet and Ricochet.

3 Marvel’s Spider-Man

Suits for Every Occasion

2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man was, without question, the most ambitious Spider-Man game to date, at least until its sequels came out. It had the biggest sandbox, the highest concentration of main and side quests, and of course, more Spider suits than you could shake a web at. Not only that, but there were both narratively-significant suits and suits that packed gameplay modifiers.

The game starts out with Spidey in his usual red-and-blue, but after that suit gets trashed, he gets his new red, blue, and white upgraded suit with a little help from Otto. Ironically (or perhaps not so much), the other narratively-significant suit, the Anti-Ock suit, is unlocked near the end of the game after completing a particular story mission, with Peter specifically designing it to combat Doc-Ock. In between all of that, you can use the tokens you collect to unlock all kinds of other suits, each with a unique combat ability. The Iron Spider suit gives you deployable spider arms, the Spider-Punk suit lets you rock out with a guitar, and the Vintage Comic Book suit lets you annoy enemies with sarcastic quips.

2 Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

You Gotta Earn Your Webs

Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales

A big aspect of Miles Morales’ character arc in his self-titled spin-off from Marvel’s Spider-Man is earning the right to be a Spider-Man in his own right. He starts the game wearing a somewhat half-baked knock-off of the classic red-and-blue, but as he comes into his own, he starts to develop his own identity as Spider-Man, and that includes a unique look.

Not long into the game, after dallying about for a bit in a couple of hand-me-down suits from Peter, Miles finally earns his own Classic suit, specifically painted in his signature shades of red and black. Miles doesn’t get any other plot-relevant suits for the rest of the game, but you can unlock additional suits by progressing the story, completing sidequests, and unlocking them with tokens, which once again have unique modifiers. The Purple Reign suit, modeled after the Prowler, replenishes ammo when performing stealth takedowns, and the Into the Spider-Verse Suit has a cool animation filter on it, to give a couple of examples. Also, completing a certain sidequest unlocks the Bodega Cat suit, which has Miles carry Spider-Man the Cat on his back, and is adorable.

1 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2

Double the Suits, Double the Action

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 featured a tag-team story between Peter and Miles, with the perspective regularly shifting between the two of them as you progressed the campaign. Naturally, two Spider-Men means a whole lot of different suits to try on, though unfortunately, this game ditched the combat modifiers of the previous game’s suits and made most of the unlockable ones strictly cosmetic. That said, we do still have the narratively-significant aspect, and it’s quite significant indeed.

The big narrative and gameplay hook of the game, at least on Peter’s side of things, is the acquisition of the Symbiote suit, initially known simply as the “Black suit,” which then evolves into the more biological-looking Symbiote suit as the story progresses. You can wear this suit on its own, or wear a different suit and customize it so that the Symbiote suit only appears when Peter uses its powers. Late in the game, with some help from Mr. Negative, the Symbiote suit is upgraded to the white Anti-Venom suit, which also alters its combat properties. On Miles’s side, he doesn’t get any superpowered suits, but he does make his own original suit near the end of the game, the Evolved suit, which the internet had some… opinions on.

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