Fantastic game. It made me get a Marvel Unlimited subscription and I’ve been reading lots of comics there in the past week.

However, little thing that bothers me. Are there really no enemy groups spawning on top of buildings when you just freely roam the city outside of story missions? In the first game I remember there being them a lot, in this game none.

I don’t really agree with people saying the story is a downgrade. The last game’s was a fucking mess. Martin Li was a terrible main villain who is later replaced by Doc Oc who would’ve been a lot more compelling were he not rehashing the exact same motivations that Li had.

It did feel weird that the main villain of 2 is Spider-Man’s most boring foe but I ended up liking Kraven a lot more than I thought I would. It led into a very natural way to fight every Spider-Man villain and give them all 15 minutes of fame.

The problem is Venom, which is sad because this is the coolest looking and sounding Venom ever made. His design is phenomenal but he comes and goes, with like a third of the time Kraven got. You’re expecting it to be split half and half between Kraven and Venom like the last game was with Mr. Negative and Oc but it’s not, it’s like a 75/25 split, and what we do get of Venom is, weirdly, a remake of Web of Shadows. Not only have I seen this all before, I’ve PLAYED this all before.

But I don’t want to just harp on story. All three Spider-Man games have pretty terrible writing that is obscured by great gameplay and this is no exception. All your abilities are super cool and traversing NYC feels incredible, and the variety of enemies is really fun.

I’m just left wondering >!why the fuck is there a 15 minute long segment where you play as Venom? I was certain even before that that they were setting up for a Venom game but then he gets vaporized after the final boss and never comes back.!<

Loved it overall but man it felt short? I also agree with reviews that said the open world side stuff is feeling a bitold now? I wonder if they can make the next series they doo feel more organic and “real”? I doubt they’ll change the formula for the 3rd game.

The only thing I wished we’d got was Venom randomly showing up to fight whilst out in the world.

Never played any other Spider-Man game since probably the first Spider-Man for GameCube, not a big marvel fan haven’t really played any of their other games, so I don’t have much to compare to from that respect

Think the game is absolutely amazing, having sooo much fun. The combat is really fun and zipping around the city is awesome. The side quests are a bit repetitive but just zipping around is so much fun that I don’t even mind going from place to place dropping down to kill some baddies or find the purple dude’s lairs and whatnot.

Probably my favorite game of the year at the moment, though I’m only about half way through