Marvel’s Spider-man 2018(review by a gamer)
“With great power comes great responsibility”, a quote by Voltaire, used by Stan Lee in the book “Amazing Fantasy #15”, a phrase that became the whole identity of our “Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-man”. A character which was liked by kids and understood by adults.
Spider-man is a childhood hero for most of us, we all somehow wanted to become like him. I don’t remember how many times I tried to get bitten by the spider just to become like him (Fyi it didn’t work).
The work that a spider couldn’t do, video games did for me, they became a part of my life and allowed me to pretend like anyone I want. But for the past 10yrs I was still looking for a game which can make me feel like Spider-man. But sadly there were none until “Insomniac” decided to drop their banger by the name of “Marvel’s Spider-Man”, was it perfect?
No,
It was a masterpiece!
Created to make the whole gaming community go berserk. It was like a game we have never seen before, a game that truly justified “Spiderman”. It was the first game after spider-man 2 to get this much hype and that too for a good reason.
This game is perfect in so many ways, but the thing that impressed me the most was the “WEB-SWINGING MECHANICS”.
WEB-SWINGING MECHANICS
In game image (Marvel’s Spider-man 2018)
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They are perfect in every possible way you can imagine. Sadly “Uncle Ben” refused to hold Peter’s web, he was tired of holding his nephew’s weight and demanded retirement, so, peter has to come-up with the new technology where his web actually stuck to the wall and stays there for a minute or few and then vanishes (those who don’t know, in game it took few minutes and 2 hrs in comics for web to dissolves), which looks hyper realistic not like the other games, where web only goes upward. Peter changes its swing motion according to the buildings and if we’re too high and there’s nothing to attach the web, he will take a leap of faith and wait till there are things in contact and at the end moment releasing the web for swinging. Webbing can also be helpful in combats,
COMBAT STYLE
I would define its combat as balanced, there is some decent amount of things you can do during the fights. You can act as a brawler, destroy everything that stand in front of you or you can approach your enemies using stealth. You can also use your environment to do environmental attacks on the enemy (environmental attacks are those attacks in which you use your surrounding things to attack).
SIDE MISSONS
There were definitely some good side-missions at the start of the story but as the game progressed, they all became the same, there was no more creativity involved, it looked like they just wanted to get over with them. It’s the same beating up, stopping the car and surviving the criminal waves. But they also help us to catch the glimpse of some of the best characters from the world straight out of a comic book.
Storyline
I loved how emotionally driven the story is, it is one of the best I have heard so far. It has all the elements to be called a great storyline. I loved the relationship between MJ-Peter and reporter MJ-Spider-man, even though they are the same person, but when they put their mask on, they completely transformed themselves into this whole new character. I loved the choices of villains, they didn’t show any major one’s just some few but they fit right to the story. The story in itself is good and DlC (The City that never sleeps), with the inclusion of Black Cat, another love interest of Spider-man, the story becomes more interesting with Peter trying to balance his relationship with MJ and Felicia(Black Cat) just add more value to it. But still this game can use some improvements,
IMPROVEMENTS
According to me, the game can use side-missions that are not repetitive, and every time there is a new adventure, the prime example I can give for this one is The Witcher 3 which has the perfect story line and great side mission, I Remember when I was so lost in the side mission that I forgot to complete the main story first. The other fault I found is that the combat is a bit choppy. It doesn’t feel smooth, sometimes while fighting enemies it becomes so chaotic that even I don’t know what’s going on. If you ask me, I would like it to have a Spider-man web of shadows type combat, that style of combat is still one of the greatest and suits the Spider-man perfectly.
In my view, Marvel’s Spider-Man holds a very high position and is going to remain there for a very long time, it’s a game filled with every kind of emotion, and I would advise you to play this once and experience the feeling of being SPIDERMAN.
