Spiderman PS4

Spiderman PS4 is a game that was released in autumn 2018 as an exclusive to Playstation 4. Spiderman was also one of the biggest releases of 2018 even though it did get overhadowed by Red Dead Redemption 2 a little bit. There has been plenty of Spiderman games over the yearsbut the stories do not always connect to each other and so was the case with this game as well.


Story

{May include spoilers} Spiderman PS4 brings some new wind to the well known Spiderman story. The game does not tell the origins of spiderman as a lot of the movie reboots do, instead to the overall story of Spiderman combating his arch enemies when Peter Parker has already been Spiderman for quite some time. There are many of those well know arch enemies such as Doctor octopus, Rhino, Electro, Scorpion and the vulture and some newer additions like Mr. Negative. The game takes the player all around Manhattan, battling different enemies and completing different missions and trials so the content does not run out even after the main story. The game takes bits from different movies as well. The character model of Peter Parker looks a lot like he does in The Amazing spiderman movies and the technology his suit uses is very familiar to the suit in The newer MCU movies.


Gameplay

In the Spiderman game you can swing across the streets of Manhattan and climb the tallest buildings, including the Avengers tower. Swinging around with webs that Spiderman shoots out is one of the most fun thing I have had in a video game in a very long time. Even though swinging in the game is very smooth, it does feel like the game is not always on the same wavelength with the player and accidents do happen. The combat in the game is also very smooth as long as you learn even some of the different combos and unlock some new ones. Without learning the combos the game does feel like a Mortal Kombat game to a newbie where you just smash your head into the controller and hope to achieve something. In Spiderman the combos are much simpler however and it does not take a long time for someone less experienced to learn them quite quick.


Audio design

It makes a nice sound when you punch the enemies in the face.


Open world

The open world is maybe the best part in the game. As previously mentioned, swinging around the streets of Manhattan as Spiderman is so much fun that there hasn't been something quite like it for quite some time. Manhattan is also filled with side missions and collectibles that are quite standard to an open world game of this size and those side missions are just as fun as the main mission itself as they do include quite a bit of lore as well.


Comparison to the previous game

As I have mentioned before it is always important to compare a game to the ones that came before it to see how the series has improved. In this case it is a bit difficult since as far as I know Spiderman PS4 is not connected to the previous games too much and on top of that I have not played previous spiderman games other than one playstation 2 era spiderman game which name I can't even remember. And it is easy to say that the series has improved a lot since playstation 2 era.


The Review

When I got Playstation 4 I was wondering if I should first get spiderman or Red Dead Redemption for it. However I got spiderman bundled together with PS4 so I did not have to make that decision after all and after the fact there is no question which of those games is better. I heard good things about both games but in the end Spiderman was the one of those two games that I enjoyed a lot more. After getting my PS4, I played through the main story of Spiderman in a couple of days as I just could not put it down, and every now and then I return to lovely Manhattan to do side missions and enjoy the freedom that swinging around gives me in this amazing game. Out of the games that I played that were realeased in 2018, and out of the ones that I will propably ever play, Spiderman PS4 would easily get my vote for the Game of the year award.

Even though Spiderman PS4 is an amazing game, nobody is perfect and thus I give a score of 9/10