Superhero movies are a dime a dozen, but superhero games are still a rare breed. As of August 2018, the Batman: Arkham games were about all we could look to for modern superhero games. Insomniac, the studio behind Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive had other ideas, though, and after years of previews Spider-Man finally dropped into our laps. There may be spoilers ahead. This is...
To say that I completely fell in love with Insomniac’s Spider-Man would be a wild understatement. Even with other “review” games to play, I still made time to play through the wallcrawler’s adventure a second time even after claiming a Platinum trophy and 100% completion. I often miss out on DLC even for games I like, but I’ve made time for Spider-Man because I’m so taken with...
If you own a PlayStation 4, there’s a pretty good chance you picked up Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man this fall. It’s one of the best games this year and one of the best games on the PlayStation 4. But many PlayStation owners and most PC gamers don’t own Xbox One consoles, and that means tons of people missed out on the previous game from Insomniac, Sunset Overdrive. It was an Xbox One...
I don't usually go back to games after I've finished them. Even games I loved, like Horizon Zero Dawn, I've usually moved on by the time I put down the controller. There are too many games to play and not enough time to play them. But just like with Insomniac's previous new game, Sunset Overdrive, I couldn't get enough of Spider-Man. I played through Spider-Man twice. So you'd better...
If you picked up Spider-Man and you’re anything like me, you’ve hardly been able to put it down since. I finished the game for our review and I’ve still loaded it up every day since then to get in some swing time. Well, for those of us totally hooked on the game, it won’t be too much longer before we have something new to do. Insomniac is polishing up the game’s previously-announced New...
Insominac Games’ Spider-Man is out in public, on shelves, and downloading from PSN – after a long wait, it’s finally here. You can read our review of the game, or you can just jump in. But Spider-Man is a rare gem. Even after finishing the main game, I continued to plug away at it, ending with a 100% completion rate and a Platinum PlayStation trophy – not something I do often. And so as...
As big as superhero hero movies have become, as much money as Disney and Warner Bros. are pulling in from their respective comic-book companies' stables of legendary licenses, there's something weird: there are very, very few comic-book games, and even fewer good ones. The 2004 Spider-Man 2 is still, almost 15 years later, regarded as one of the best, despite being one of the very first...
Spider-Man comics have been running for over half a century. They’ve been in Amazing, Spectacular, Sensational and even Superior varieties, telling multiple Spider-stories every month for years and years. And yet, the attraction to the character for many of us is pretty simple. What would it feel like to move like no human could ever dream of moving? That’s the fantasy of Spider-Man,...
So many of my favorite games of E3 2018 are games that don’t have release dates. One of the games that was playable and has a clear, imminent release, though, is Insomniac’s Spider-Man. I finally got to play it last week at E3. My time with the game started awkwardly. “How do I get in line to play this,” I asked the guy in the red hoodie clearly overlooking the game. “Y’know man, I...
We’ve been seeing bits and pieces of Insomniac’s Spider-Man at E3 for the last couple years, but the developer has been pretty cagey about when its PlayStation-exclusive superhero game would hit shelves. Now, Insomniac has announced an official release date and a few details about the release. We can expect to start playing the game on September 7, 2018 on PlayStation 4. “It’s been an...