5 adds xray melee kills and further expands the focus on the customization system but really there's not much different from 4 here. It's the best entry in the series yet, but Rebellion simply continues their tradition of barely improving the game while continuing to sell the same DLC redesigned (Hitler ) as well as cosmetic DLC that should be 100% unlockable.

The mission maps are significantly bigger than 4 and have lots of objectives and collectibles but that isn't always a good thing. Prepare for a lot of save scumming in missions like level 1 or level 4 due to their length. Also, there aren't really a lot of new weapons - if any - in SE5.

Still it's a fun experience. You can turn off the invasion - Dark Souls drop in pvp - and probably should if multiplayer isn't your thing.

Initially I put the game down because the mechanics struck me the wrong way - basically CoD MW2 ice climbing simulator. Those mechanics made their way into a lot of other games like RE6 and I had no interest in them. But after playing, it's an innovative little platformer with intelligent and moderately realistic climbing.

Great soundtrack, environmental story telling combined with a ton of journals and letters, one of the only games made with UE5 right now. The graphics are pretty and even with everything being flatshaded it still looks good. Lots of cool imagery in the pre-rendered cutscenes, especially in the last hour. Looking to buy it when I have money. Once you master the game it can be beaten in even less than 4 hours but it takes about 10 to get all the achievements if you're organized.

Anyone familiar with spiderman lore can predict every single thing that happens in this game, and the story and gameplay are both mighty boring, but it's the best Spider-man before Spider-man 2. The swinging animations, tricks, quips etc. are all on point and it features most of the best villains - the rest will be in Spider-man 2 I'm sure.

As I said, the gameplay gets extremely boring fast - Spiderman is chock full of lazy, cliche, frustrating GTA style missions and neverending groups of dudes to beat up. That would be half ok except even with all skills unlocked, there really isn't a ton of variety in the combat. Especially once you are fighting every kind of enemy on screen and once and all enemies of the same type have to be dealt with the same way.

The story gets great in Act 2 - though predictable - and makes it worth playing by the end.