Marvel’s Spiderman 2 Review

📽 Genre	Action-Adventure, Single-Player
🕹 Available On	PlayStation 5
⏳ How long to complete?	15-18 hours
🔥 My Rating	7.3/10⭐

With the holidays around the corner and everything else going on, finishing Marvel’s Spiderman 2 took me longer than expected. But, I finally did it. 

My feelings about this game are mixed but maybe somewhere during this article, they get better. Kinda. Before we go deeper into my experience let’s go over some of the more technical stuff.

About Spiderman 2

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. 

It’s based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man (WHAAAT? THATS BRAND NEW INFO) and it was released for the PlayStation 5 on October 20, 2023. 

The game sold over 2.5 million units (yeah, I was one of them) in 24 hours and over five million in 10 days, becoming PlayStation’s fastest-selling first-party title and the best-selling PlayStation 5 game. 

My Experience With Spiderman 2

I started playing the game as soon as it finished downloading. It starts with Peter starting a job as a teacher at Miles’ school. 

On his first day, Sandman attacks New York and both Peter and Miles have to dip a class which will lead to Peter getting fired. But before that happens, they have to fight a Godzilla-sized Sandman.

And while the fight itself was really cool and very nicely done, I had a couple of issues happen after the fight. 

I ran into some glitches that I didn’t expect in the first minutes of actual gameplay. Like running in a loop without being able to stop or the enemies being stuck in places where I can’t enter or reach. All of this was extremely frustrating coming from such an anticipated game, and it contributed a lot to the fact that I left the game unplayed for a while, and took my time finishing it. 

Anyway, enough of ranting(for now), we soldier on. 

Storyline

So, after that, mysterious Hunters appear in New York, and Peter’s best friend Harry returns. This is a point where two main stories start to unfold. 

On one side we have Hunters and their fearless leader Sergei Kravinoff aka Kraven the Hunter and their goals seem to be the best possible hunt they could have. This leads to a bunch of supervillains being hunted. 

On the other side, we have a story with Harry revealing that he wasn’t on a mysterious trip but was actually sick and dying and now he is cured and wants to start saving the world with Peter. 

As we progress deeper into the game we find out the reason for the hunt and Harry’s miraculous recovery.

I’ll try my best to stop revealing more from now on, I promise. 

Gameplay

Gameplay-wise, I liked most of Marvel’s Spiderman 2. 

I mean, what’s not to like? You’re swinging or gliding around the beautiful city of New York, chasing and fighting bad guys. 

The only thing I didn’t like and this is just a personal quirk, are the main boss fights. You see, after you destroy it fully, it proceeds to give a little speech and then goes back to full HP. This happens multiple times.

Like for godsakes if I defeat it once let that be the end of it, or at least do it just once, not five damn times. Besides that minor issue, everything else was just fine.

Graphics

From a graphics standpoint, everything was extremely beautiful. And if you combine it with the classic chill Spiderman music, you could spend countless hours just exploring New York and doing nothing but swinging around. 

Playing this game on chill mode should be some form of therapy. Oh, you had a bad day? Everything is going the wrong way and nothing you do is right? Everybody hates you? Your significant other dumped you? Don’t despair, I’ve got the solution to all your worries. Play Spiderman and just swing around. WOW, what a stroke of genius, solving the world’s problems, Nobel Prize here I come.

Side Missions

Apart from free exploration and main missions, there are tons of side missions that you can do, which will reward you with experience and also necessary parts for upgrades. 

Some of them are: Collecting Sandman’s crystals aka memories, The Flame, Mysteriums, Prowler’s stashes, and many others, not to name them all. 

But hands down mine and probably the crowd favorite is Find the Grandpa Earl. It was such a heartwarming scene when Peter was sitting with him on a bench — whoever played that quest knows what I’m talking about. Or I’m just getting old and emotional.

All in all, I had a very positive experience playing Marvel’s Spiderman 2. I’m looking forward to seeing future updates and hopefully fixes.

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