LogFAQs > #908366159

I'm a few hours in now and yeah... it plays like literally every Spider-Man game. It's fun for sure, but I'm not exactly wowed or anything. It's just another Spidey game.

The ripping off of Arkham is a little heavy handed. The combat plays exactly like Arkham. You have a detective mode exactly like Arkham. The insta takedown moves in combat are exactly like Arkham (same button prompt and everything). Arkham was great, but ffs I want something new.

Also, "side quests" are incredibly generic open world fare. "Go to the towers to fill out the map." Wow, I haven't seen that in literally every other open world game ever. Can devs not think of anything original for stuff like this?

The swinging is fun and I like how it's very momentum based. You can get some crazy speed going once you get the flow. That being said, I don't find it to be very deep. It's not really better or worse than previous games. It's fun though.

The graphics are very good, almost too good. What I mean by that is there are times where I'm swinging and the sunlight is so bright and realistic that I can't see where I'm going. From a visual standpoint it's great, but from a gameplay standpoint it's kinda annoying. I know that's kind of a weird thing to complain about.

The humor is pretty dead on and very in character for Spidey. I actually chuckled at how Peter kept going on about Spider-Cop while Yuri groaned the whole time. From what I've seen so far the writers seem to understand the character very well.

Overall I'm not super impressed. The game is fun, but it's nothing you haven't seen before. I wasn't really on the hype train for it, so I was hoping it would maybe surprise me and be awesome. However, it's exactly what I thought it would be: just another Spider-Man game. If you like Spider-Man, you'll enjoy it.
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