What really sold players on the Spidey fantasy was the endlessly satisfying web swinging, and there has been a nice aerial upgrade. ![]() It is a welcome change, with the original’s bizarre obsession with chasing down pigeons feeling closer to an RSPCA interview than a Spider-Man-worthy endeavour. So, hopefully don’t feel just like a checklist.” If you see something happening down on the street, when you do engage there is now a narrative wrapped around what’s happening. “You can be on a rooftop and look out and, without any UI, you can see visual cues in the world. “A big thing for us was the organic nature of the open world,” says Intihar. ‘It’s the city that steals the show.’ Photograph: Sony Twice the size of the original’s recreation of New York, this new pixelated playground gives web-happy players all of Manhattan, Miles Morales’ Brooklyn and the all-new Queens to seamlessly swing across, adding some welcome variety to the original’s one note blocks. Yet while the cinematic story delivers some impressive spectacle, it’s the city that steals the show. He adds: “As important as it is to tell those big bombastic stories, the human side of these characters is just as important – the 360 degree view of the superhero – and that’s what we really want to do with Pete and Miles: and do it in the same game, at the same time.” “I think these games resonate so well with players because we don’t forget when they’re not wearing a mask,” says creative director Bryan Intihar. It is all slickly scripted and animated stuff, with no individual storybeat overstaying its welcome, dragging you seamlessly back into the comic book-ready carnage. Starting a few hours into the story, my time in Marvel’s Manhattan flits between Harry and Peter looking for a cure for a mystery illness, and Miles attempting to help out his local community – while stopping to beat seven shades of shit out of countless street thugs, of course. It is set 10 months after the events of the 2018 original, and Kraven the Hunter has concocted nasty serums to drag the raging reptile out of Doctor Connors, sending the scientist-cum-scaly-behemoth rampaging around downtown New York. While the Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its verve, the storytelling in Spider-Man 2 still delivers. These additional abilities add some depth to the fast-paced button-mashing of old, and I soon slip into an enjoyable rhythm of darting from foe to unfortunate foe. ![]() Miles Morales, however, sticks to his signature electric-powered pummelling, and as you upgrade both sticky-fingered vigilantes, the pair both feel pleasingly distinctive. Petey’s grungey new spandex translates into some impressively hefty additional combat abilities, with Venom’s tar-like tendrils letting you slap around street thugs like a spiteful gothic octopus. It is essentially the Hovis Best of Both approach to sequel-craft but, thankfully, it appears that you can teach an old spidey new tricks. ![]() ![]() Now, players don the skin-hugging spandex of not one, but two Spider-Men, hurling both the original game’s Peter Parker and 2020’s Miles Morales into one web-tastic yarn. The big innovation comes from the creator, Insomniac Games, taking the words Spider-Man 2 incredibly literally.
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