The swinging is pretty much the only thing this game has going for it, everything else is worse than it was in the first game. Peter's character here is very inconsistent compared to its prequel. The stealth feels worse, the combat feels worse, the gameplay feels worse overall. I thought the menace/heroic system wasn't that bad at first, but it quickly became annoying... I thought the boss fights were a step up from the first game and I had some fun doing them. As a Spider-Man game I do NOT recommend this game, it's a mess. If you don't know much about Spider-Man then maybe you can have a better time than I did.

Maybe I didn't know what I was missing out on and also maybe this has to do with my clear Spider-Man bias (see my favorites), but I really enjoyed this game. It was the closest that I had ever gotten to what was perfected in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018) and it had some really fun and touching moments (I'm thinking of Stan Lee's shop in particular).

I definitely remember certain aspects of the gameplay being really frustrating and I couldn't tell you much about the story, but I enjoyed the Peter Parker gameplay and ultimately felt like it was good enough.

The first one was surprisingly good and introduced a lot of great ideas, this one unfortunately feels very half-assed.

It's short, swinging isn't always responsive, boss fights are bland, and the story is very rushed and poorly executed. There's even a hero/menace meter that you constantly have to keep up by repeating the same 5 random crime missions which was obviously implemented to artificially extend the game's length.

I also hate the lack of a new game plus mode which the last one didn't have either unfortunately, because there's a shit ton of costumes the game wants you to upgrade and it's not even possible to do in one playthrough. Instead, you have to keep grinding long after the game is done. And if you want to beat the game on hard for an achievement, say goodbye to your 100% playthrough.

There's a severe lack of stages too. The first game had lots of them with plenty of variety mixed in to break up the pace. This one however only has 14 total missions with a lot of them being "go here to talk to someone" and introductions to the various random crimes you're going to be doing over and over again during your first playthrough. Whenever you do come across a unique location, it's usually just a small area where you can beat up bad guys before fighting a boss rather than being a traditional level.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a clear downgrade from the last one, but it's not unplayable or even bad. It's just not very good either. I'd say it's the weakest Spider-Man game since Spider-Man 3. Funnily enough, the same could be said about the films too.

it improves on very little from its predecessor (swinging through the city now requires that webs actually stick to buildings, that’s it) and adds a bunch of stuff that actively makes it a less enjoyable experience; the story throws a thousand villains at spidey and and the incessant threat of being hunted down as a public menace if you choose to not complete the wildly repetitive side content that appears on the map literally by the minute. the whole thing feels janky as fuck but it’s still a playable and mostly engaging spidey game and sometimes that’s enough

As if the movie this game is tied to wasn't already bad, I genuinely believe this game is an even worse experience. The combat is basically just a copy of Arkham's combat system but not as good. This game also has stealth missions, but they aren't all that fun since they all feel the same. The web swinging is okay but it's definitely not the best out there. This game has a reputation meter, where if you do the side crime stopping activities, the city will like you, but if you don't do them then more enemies will spawn in the open world and will try and kill you. I get that they did this to encourage players to do the crime activities, but a: you can ignore these if you go from story mission to story mission quick enough, and b: I would actually be motivated to do the crime activities if they were any fun. The story is also very lackluster and boring. It feels like they were trying to tell a unique story, but then remembered at the end that they had to shove the movie's plot in here as well (besides Gwen Stacy for some reason). This game also has dialogue sections, but they are neither interesting or necessary. You're literally allowed to choose all of them or none of them, and your choice won't affect the game's story at all. Overall, I feel like this game is crap and I give it 2/5 stars.

So to give context, this game had one of the worst releases I've EVER experienced. Considering that this game was halfassly released to Xbox One and PS4 users If you preorder ASM2 at Gamestop (pretty much physically) there was a week delay if you bought it as an xbox user... so that sucks ass (also this was before i had my other consoles like PS4, Switch [cause it didn't exist yet], Fat PS3 Model 1, etc, so i could only really have fun with my xbox at the time).

Anyway so this game continues from the previous entry deciding to continue the story from the first game where if you don't know... THEY KILLED OFF GWEN STACEY, so if you went into this expecting scenes with her. The video game movie alternate whatever the fuck this is, does it's own thing.
Like the first game, the only thing this relates with in terms of the movie is the name and the suit, apart from that it doesn't have anything to do with the movie.
"How so?"

So there's no electro, instead the big bad is CARNAGE which btw I'm not gonna lie, he looks amazing. BUT JESUS WHY THE HELL DID YOU SHOVE CARNAGE IN A SPIDERMAN GAME BEFORE VENOM LIKE WTF.

Also featuring character like, No Chin KIngPin, BlackCat (which to be honest is a point for any Spiderman because she is hot and best Spiderman romantic interest), Shocker, and Kraven the Hunter. WOW NOT EVEN F***ing Green Goblin.

Look I get the first game detoured from the movie, and not even featured Lizard (though that might be because it took place after the movie or some shit)
But they seriously couldn't include Electro or Green Goblin like... wtf.

I will say the suits are great though like:

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Hornet Suit (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, has only been in this game)

Superior Spiderman Suit (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, has only been in this game)

Miles Morales Suit (remember this was before Marvel's Spiderman Miles Morales, so this suit was a novelty at the time)

FlipSide Suit (suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, has only been in this game)

Ricochet (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, has only been in this game)

Spider-Carnage (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, has only appeared in this game, though reason can be given because, Marvel's Spiderman 2 is barely introducing Venom, so having a suit like this in Marvel Spiderman 1 would be ridiculous, still a cool suit)

ASM2 Suit (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, which is surprising because the inferior Spiderman Suit from ASM1 is in Marvel's Spiderman, this is the only Spiderman game to feature the ASM2 suit)

Cosmic Suit (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, which is a bummer cause this is one of the strongest Spiderman suits and versions of the Webhead, the fact its not in Marvel's Spiderman is a shame... at least its in this gam- jesus most of these amazing suits are stuck on this garbage game)

Classic Black Suit (Suit is not in Marvel's Spiderman, though most likely will be in Marvel's Spiderman 2)
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Great Suits Stuck in a garbage game.

The web swinging is fine, except why the hell did they add a first person direct contact web thwip into this game, literally you can just zip from wall to wall like its nothing. This game also has a cool yet repetitive asf, MENACE/HERO Meter which can be raised or drops depending on if you choose to help or not in city events, which in no way am I saying that Marvel's Spiderman gets a pass for doing this but at the same time the combat and atmosphere and look of the game makes these city events feel a lot more interesting and awesome in Marvel's Spiderman, this game literally just shows a news screen that essentially can be summed up to: "Spiderman did something good/bad"

Also having random flying guards appear when you're a menace to New York, but you can avoid them if you play those events, but they're so repetitive you just won't want to.

The stealth sections are kind of cool as the objective isn't to fight enemies more so to sneak passed them. And even then the AI is braindead so it's easy to do so. The bosses are pathetically easy with cheap hits that do a lot of damage, but once you figure out their pattern, theyre easy as hell to defeat. ESPECIALLY THE FINAL BOSS CARNAGE.
The Peter Parker sections while cool, are immediately garbage because while promotion did make it seem like you could make drastic decisions based on multiple choice answers really amounted to bull.

"What are you going to ask King Pin?"
It doesn't matter what you ask, you have to ask him all the questions, it doesn't matter what you ask first in these sections they amount to nothing, they were there to make players think "OMG I CAN EFFECT THE ENDING OR OUTCOMES IN THESE SECTIONS LIKE MASS EFFECT OR SKYRIM OR NEW VEGAS OMG OMG" when in reality its just there to pad for time.

This game is so ass the only pros are:

The Awesome unique suits to this game
Carnage (he looks cool even if his inclusion is stupid)
Black Cat (any spiderman game with Black Cat is an immediate win)

Fuck this game, don't play it.