A truly fantastic superhero gaming experience. Lines up right alongside Arkham City and Arkham Knight on the pantheon of superhero games. Just a really great game. A fun and easygoing, easy-to-follow storyline with zippy web-slinging gameplay. Tons of cool spidey suits and lots of neat sidequests and collectibles. Combat feels rewarding and encourages playing on higher difficulties. Marvel's Spider-Man makes fighting fun when many games make the combat a chore. Spider-Man makes exploration rewarding as well in a way that even the Batman games failed to do.

It is worth noting that I think Marvel's Spider-Man took heavy 'inspiration from Arkham Knight. Not that that's a bad thing. Arkham Knight is a phenomenal game. But the Spider-Man combat is mechanically identical with the three-button counter-heavy Assassin's Creed style fighting that was common in the Arkham Trilogy. Even many of the gadgets seem reminiscent of the Arkham games. Not to mention that even the final act has huge similarities to Arkham Knight's penultimate act. Evacuated city, a poisonous gas cloud that covers the city surface making you stick to the rooves, simple city traversal itself now becomes very difficult to muster. A plot twist where the villain isn't really 'the' villain. It's a lot of 'inspiration' a point which, I'm again not very upset about because Arkham Knight is a great game,I feel ought to be pointed out.

A great first showing by Insomniac in what I hope continues as a great series

shockingly good story and probably the best-feeling game to just move around in, maybe only second to Mario Odyssey. I love nearly every second of this game, even including the stupid puzzles.

but gosh. I know its an overdone complaint but the MJ/Miles segments are 90% awful. the last MJ one was decent cause at that point you have the beepers and the taser. and the last miles one with Rhino was at least really tense in a fun way. but man they just bog things down SO much and they cant be skipped.

Spider-Man is one of the greatest comic book characters and has had plenty of great video games. This is one of his crowning achievements as a character and one of the greatest comic book video games-it's up there with Arkham City and Arkham Knight. The gameplay is great, the music is amazing, and the story is one of the greatest Spider-Man stories. Yuri has cemented himself among the live-action actors, the 90s show, Spectacular Spider-Man, etc. I can't sing this game's praises enough, just play it yourself.

The story is bog-standard Marvel fluff, this is maybe the most pro-cop Spider-Man of any adaptation (dont read comic books sorry), the stealth missions are admirably designed to escalate yet ultimately still distract from the main experience, there's probably too much side content and map screen blips, and a lot of those are too over-reliant on fight multiple waves of faceless mooks.

None of that has to matter if you can swing around NYC "Da Big Freakin Apple" and web some baddies onto the wall like a god damn Spiderman.