Spider-Man (PS4) Review

After completing the game after its launch in 2018, I began to re-play it this week and it brought back a lot of fond memories. The reasons I enjoyed this game was simply that it kept me captivated by making me constantly traverse the map. This is because during the three acts you are required to complete various objectives which are linked in with the story, like defeating prisoners in the Financial District which open up the ability to fight bosses like Tombstone. Because there is a constant supply of objectives and mini-games between and during the acts I never felt from the start of the story to the end that I was mindlessly swinging around New York… I always had a path to follow. However, that wouldn’t have been such a bad thing because that’s the highlight of the game. After playing it again, I realised that what makes the swinging around so enjoyable is that the overall mechanics aren’t over complicated. All you have to do is hold down the right trigger to swing and release when you want to launch into the air, which allows the player to traverse the map with ease and speed. You feel like you are actually Spider-Man which is amazing for a game to archive and what makes the game appealing to all ages. As every comic book fan (young and old) wonders what it would be like to be Spider-Man and this game delivers that perfectly.