Without a doubt the Best Spider-Man game to this day, you don't just play Spider-Man, you are Spider-Man.


Insomniac Games took a dead franchise which was nailed and buried into the ground because of passionless developing from corporate slobs, and gave it new life, the story is fantastic and beats just about every Spider-Man story from the movies, it's a love letter to every form of Spider-Man because you can tell that this was made with effort, and clear love for the Character. It takes butchered elements such as web swinging and turns it on it's head in a way that feels fun, and satisfying, and takes the Combat to new levels by adding gadgets and another stats that make the Combat more engaging, and exciting to play with but you can easily choose your own style of Combat whether you'd fight with or without gadgets, you don't feel too powerful, neither do you feel to weak, it's just the right amount of balance that doesn't make the game terribly hard or a breeze to play through depending on your style, and difficulty.


But with every great feat this game manages to reach, it falls flatter than my chances of ever getting a girlfriend in the Side missions, and other tasks you can attend to when you're done which seems to be a staple of every game. Gone are the days of playing as Spider-Man's greatest foes, you now play as "riveting" and "exciting" characters as powerless Miles Morales, and MJ, which makes me wonder why they didn't just use cutscenes to show them sneaking around... huh, and the Boss fights could've been much better.


But this game does so much more right than it does wrong, the Characters, and villains feel as they should be but with the only exception being Mr. Negative because he's just another mustache twirling villain in my opinion, but the other villains are great, especially Dr. Octopus because when he falls to villainy, you really do feel him fall to the path of Darkness, and the final Boss fight is so so good and being the best one of the entire game with the emotional baggage it carries through the fight.


This game makes me absolutely excited for all things Spider-Man again, it revives my dying love for the character, and brings us to a more familiar time in the character of Peter Parker that is undeniably enjoyable all through out the game, the main Characters feel human and they're really relatable! This game does something fresh, new and exciting while also not being afraid to do so, which makes me so much more excited for the future of Insomniac's Spider-Man franchise.

It is a crime for a company that made one of the best Spider-Man games to fall absolutely flat in this installment of the game, Spider-Man 3 is bound by shackles and weights because of the addition of being a movie tie in game but the game is overly ambitious by forcing you to go through 10 storylines, and none of them remotely connect to each other or pay off in a satisfying way.


The city looks gorgeous, and you can tell they tried a lot here but I can't take this god damn game seriously due to it's graphics and absolutely dull voice acting from everybody in the cast, there aren't many things I like about this game since everything that they did right with Ultimate Spider-Man, and Spider-Man 2 was thrown out the Window but you can tell they really tried, but sometimes it isn't enough, especially in situations like this.


In what was a shining game franchise with an overall good reputation from Gamers, and critics a like, begins to decay here with lackluster gameplay, and story, and unneeded difficulty, this movie takes the shining reputation of Spider-Man, and begins to dig it's grave, for worse.

Spider-Man 2 is arguably the best Spider-Man game before Spider-Man PS4 came out, this is a movie tie in game but at the same time, it does so many things right such as the web swinging, combat and even to the Story itself!


Web swinging is fun, and fluid, and easily the best part of what made this game so memorable, it's not as easy as Ultimate Spider-Man's or Spider-Man PS4's but when you do get the hang of it, you'll feel just like Spider-Man, the Combat is also fast and fluid, and you can do so many neat things such as a web rodeo or tossing your enemies off buildings, tho the possibilities aren't endless, and the Story gets Spider-Man just about as much as the movie did when it first came out, this is an absolute joy to play, but does it still hold up today by modern standards?



The web swinging system feels kind of janky by today's modern standards, and the Combat despite being fast and extremely fluid lacks fun after a few more hours into the game, most of the voice actors here feel as if they've phoned in a performance for a simple paycheck with the exception of Josh Keaton, and cutscenes have such a hard time of giving the feeling of surprise or any emotion at all except complete comedy due to the way the Graphics are, and the voice acting, and Side Missions are so repetetive which are a staple of every Spider-Man game, sometimes you'll find yourself doing the same missions with the same NPC's, and the Graphics are so emberassing if you think about it because Spider-Man (2002) had better graphics than this!


So I answer my question, does this hold up against modern standards? Yes... but no sadly, it's still a fun game and it doesn't take away from my overall enjoyment of what was done here in fact.