The long awaited sequel to Insomniac’s Spider-Man Ps4, was released with high praise from fans and critics alike. Spider-Man 2 scored a 90 on Metacritic, which means the general audience and critics would recommend it. The release of the game was a big event among the gaming community, and rallied everyone together. The game is super compelling and interesting from the moment you start it to the moment you finish.
The game opens with a fight against the infamous “Spider-man” villain Flint Marko, also known as “Sandman”, and it does a perfect job of introducing all the new features in the game. The main plot of the game was advertised as Miles Morales and Peter Parker teaming up together and this is executed flawlessly in this sequence. Spider-man 2 introduces new aspects of the game such as an extended map, new combat layout, and web wings, allowing characters to glide and fly around New York City.
Spider-Man 2 clocks in at 15-18 hours to complete the main story, and then consists of many side quests that take around 24 hours to complete. The key selling point of the game is that Spider-Man gets the “Venom Symbiote Suit” and the player gets to see how that affects his mood and the decisions he makes. One of the best aspects of this game is how there are so many different villains such as “Mister Negative,” “Kraven the Hunter,” “Lizard,” and the main one, “Venom,” and all of them get their time to shine. The game does such a good job of introducing a lot of new aspects, but also keeping what the first game strived in.
As the first Spider-Man game to be exclusively on the Playstation 5, the graphics are absolutely stunning and look as realistic as a character swinging around with webs can be. The second game’s stories build upon ideas introduced in the first game, and add more depth to certain characters. We are introduced to Harry Osborn, who plays a massive role in the story and also in Peter Parker’s life. Some of the most fun to be had in the game is during the carnival missions when we see a massive revelation in Peter and Harry’s lifes. The player also gets to see and play flashbacks of Peter and Harry in high school. It is cool to see someone like Spider-Man in high school and deal with problems teenagers deal with.
When the game is finished, players usually long for more content to play in that game, and Spider-Man 2 offers that. With the map in the second game being nearly twice as big as the first game there is much more to do after completing the main story of the game. Most big story games are not open world so you can only play the story mode and you are done with the game so it can be hard to justify the price of $70. So with Spider-Man 2 excelling in storytelling and immersiveness after the game is completed, it is hard not to justify the price.
As people start to finish the game many fans have been looking forward to a third Spiderman game, but it does not seem like that is anywhere near in the future. The wait from the first game to the second game was five years, so it would not be surprising if the wait was the same or even possibly longer. It is likely that Insomniac’s “Wolverine” will come out first, as it is confirmed to be in the same universe as the Spider-man games and it will likely lead into the third game. Spider-Man 1 and 2 both do a great job of adapting Spider-man so there’s no reason to believe the third game will be disappointing.
