If you ask me if I liked this game, Yes! I did. I had a enough fun with it. It's certainly a polished product with lots of content to enjoy for spiderman fans. But also it tries too hard to be likeable for everyone and in the end becomes an another spiderman game rather than "The" Spider man game. At least for me.
For example let's start with the gameplay. It does have it's web shooting, traversal abilities, combat abilities etc. They also feel nice enough to carry the game with their undeniable polished animations. But they also feel samey from products that came before it. There is nothing new in it other than more refinement and polish.
Feels like every idea in it, I played somewhere else already. That's not a bad thing if your priority is to become likeable for everyone. But also means it's not unique enough to pinpoint why this game is special then others other than it's high budget polished animations and refined gameplay.
For example let's look at the traversal, it uses a little bit momentum based web traversal system with heavily assisted webs that removes the error from the casual user, but also feels like spiderman 2's more casual friendly traversal system.
Or the combo system, it uses sliding auto lock on that slides you into the enemies when attacking, also uses the the dodge signal to use against incoming danger, it also have some combos at the ground and at the air combos. Also the gadgets of course. If this isn't your first super hero game you can see that sliding lock on and dodge signal comes from Batman Arkham games, gadgets on the other hand comes from their own Ratched and Clank games. Yes, combat is certainly fun but still that samey feeling doesn't disappear.
We can even look to open world and see... ubisoft like garbage objectives actually... Wait maybe I should take this game into my "Ubisoft Open Worlds" list? Eh...
Anyway my point is can be seen right?
We can look at story too. It's certainly a fun campaign with it's ups and downs and of course the emotional moments. I won't go in too much detail but it's about how Peter and Dr. Octa Octavius's relationships grow and break. It's certainly a fun story that feels impactful. But also somewhere in my mind feels like I had already seen this before... A Dr Octopus that is on the line between kind and evil... A Spider-man that have difficulties at balancing his relationships... Again it reminds me a lot of spiderman 2's movie story...
Yes it's much more varied with more characters, events and emotional up and downs but still it makes me feel like I am just experiencing the spiderman 2's expanded story script, or something like a director's cut version of it. Even It's suppossed suprises felt already seen to me.
This feeling permeates the entire game for me unfortunately. It's a fun time there is no doubt about that but also it doesn't have the rock energy of the first ps1 game of spiderman nor it does have the unique world of arkham games for me. So it's somewhere in between, it certainly isn't mediocre with it's high polish but it's not something spectacular either. It does it's job, gives you fun then disappears it.
So yeah, this is Marvel's Spiderman. Parts of it you already experienced, but if you want to see it on higher budget again, here it is. Have fun as long as you want like you always did. But I wonder if it's enough to make players want for the second time? For a second game?
For example let's start with the gameplay. It does have it's web shooting, traversal abilities, combat abilities etc. They also feel nice enough to carry the game with their undeniable polished animations. But they also feel samey from products that came before it. There is nothing new in it other than more refinement and polish.
Feels like every idea in it, I played somewhere else already. That's not a bad thing if your priority is to become likeable for everyone. But also means it's not unique enough to pinpoint why this game is special then others other than it's high budget polished animations and refined gameplay.
For example let's look at the traversal, it uses a little bit momentum based web traversal system with heavily assisted webs that removes the error from the casual user, but also feels like spiderman 2's more casual friendly traversal system.
Or the combo system, it uses sliding auto lock on that slides you into the enemies when attacking, also uses the the dodge signal to use against incoming danger, it also have some combos at the ground and at the air combos. Also the gadgets of course. If this isn't your first super hero game you can see that sliding lock on and dodge signal comes from Batman Arkham games, gadgets on the other hand comes from their own Ratched and Clank games. Yes, combat is certainly fun but still that samey feeling doesn't disappear.
We can even look to open world and see... ubisoft like garbage objectives actually... Wait maybe I should take this game into my "Ubisoft Open Worlds" list? Eh...
Anyway my point is can be seen right?
We can look at story too. It's certainly a fun campaign with it's ups and downs and of course the emotional moments. I won't go in too much detail but it's about how Peter and Dr. Octa Octavius's relationships grow and break. It's certainly a fun story that feels impactful. But also somewhere in my mind feels like I had already seen this before... A Dr Octopus that is on the line between kind and evil... A Spider-man that have difficulties at balancing his relationships... Again it reminds me a lot of spiderman 2's movie story...
Yes it's much more varied with more characters, events and emotional up and downs but still it makes me feel like I am just experiencing the spiderman 2's expanded story script, or something like a director's cut version of it. Even It's suppossed suprises felt already seen to me.
This feeling permeates the entire game for me unfortunately. It's a fun time there is no doubt about that but also it doesn't have the rock energy of the first ps1 game of spiderman nor it does have the unique world of arkham games for me. So it's somewhere in between, it certainly isn't mediocre with it's high polish but it's not something spectacular either. It does it's job, gives you fun then disappears it.
So yeah, this is Marvel's Spiderman. Parts of it you already experienced, but if you want to see it on higher budget again, here it is. Have fun as long as you want like you always did. But I wonder if it's enough to make players want for the second time? For a second game?