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.
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.