I heard a lot of really good things about this one and was planning to pick it up once it got cheaper, but I got it as an unexpected Xmas present from a friend on the grounds that I would start playing it with them. I went to hang out at their place to start it 3 days ago, and basically played it whenever I was able since then and got the (surprisingly easy) platinum earlier today XD . I expected this game would be good, and damn good it was.
It's Spider-Man, and presentation-wise it is like a celebration of Spider-Man as a franchise. The web-swinging feels AWESOME. The game has a fast-travel system, but I barely ever even used it because swinging around is so intuitive, fast, and fluid. You can unlock all sorts of gadgets to use on enemies, and basically any suit Spidey has ever freaking worn to trot about the city in. The game also basically doesn't use pre-rendered cutscenes, so any suit you're wearing will be what he's wearing during whatever cutscene you happen to be in (which ranges from hilarious to kinda off-putting XD). The story is pretty damn good. It suffers from a decided lack of pacing that most of these open-world games suffer from in their main narratives, but the acting, cinematography, and pacing of the cutscenes are great. I've been told it follows the story of the rebooted comics to some extent, but I have no context for that from personal experience, so I have to take that at its word XP . Plenty of recognizable baddies from the franchise though, and Peter Parker's quips are as funny as ever. There was more than once where I had to nearly pause the game because a quip hit me so well XD. The combat is Arkham-y, but it's done really well. Perhaps it's just because I'm not sick of that style of combat like I know some people are, but I always found the combat really fluid and fun. You get level ups from doing map challenges, main and side-quests, as well as just fighting baddies, and you can put skill points you get from those into new moves you can use in combat. The combat has a real emphasis on air-juggling opponents as well as being mobile while also using gadgets to trip-up enemies and keep yourself from getting overwhelmed, and it has a very nice "easy to learn, hard to master" vibe to it. That said, I think it may be a little too hard to learn, given that I was nearly dying quite a bit in the tutorial mission XD. The game runs great on my normal PS4. The only performance hiccups were some slight framerate stutters during some cutscenes, but during actual gameplay it was always fine, and I can only imagine how well this runs on an a PS4 Pro. It runs as well as a 1st party title with this kind of budget behind it should, and I'm very happy with that. Verdict: Highly recommended. Watchdogs 2 is still my favorite GTA-style open-world city game, but Spider-Man has thoroughly dethroned Infamous 2 as my favorite super-powers variant of that sub-genre. It is a fantastic return to form for Spider-Man games as well as just a brilliant addition to the already overwhelming PS4 exclusives library, and something anyone with a PS4 should at least consider checking out if they're into open-world types of games ^w^
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