You quickly go from enemy to enemy, moving across the entire battlefield as you dodge attacks and look for openings. Since Insomniac’s combat has you focusing more on dodging rather than countering, you feel much more like Spider-Man. Sure, later you’ll earn an ability that automatically shoots web at a person’s face if you dodge their attack right before they’re about to strike, but that just incapacitates them for a bit. But this is about giving you an opportunity to dodge an upcoming attack rather than countering one. You have your Spider Sense, which flashes above Spider-Man’s head when he’s about to get hit. This means that you’ll want to knock enemies into the air, where you can fight them with less fear of being hit by someone else. They’re active combatants, so you need to do your best to isolate foes. Enemies don’t fall into the usual video game trope of waiting their turn to attack you. Thankfully, Insomniac went for something that focuses on Spider-Man’s agility and web-based abilities. It was novel until every other third-person action game started using the same exact system (including some previous Spider-Man games). So many superhero games copy the combat from the Batman Arkham series since that franchise started in 2009, which revolves around timing counters to enemy attacks so you can instantly knock them out. We’ve had other Spider-Man games with cool open worlds and fun swinging mechanics, but the fighting elevates Marvel’s Spider-Man to new heights.
You spend a lot of time swinging through the city, and it never gets old. The animations blend well together to make Spider-Man look acrobatic and agile. You can also dive while in midair, giving you a big speed boost for your next swing. You can also swing up against walls, automatically making you run along them as long as you keep that R2 button held down. You can jump out of a swing for extra height and then press the X button to shot out a new web and use it to yank yourself forward. You then release the button when you want to stop swinging.īut you can do so much more than just press the same button again and again. You can latch onto any building, tree, or pole, so you’ll almost always have something to web onto (you’ll only be out of luck if you swing higher than the nearby buildings or go over open water).
Swinging is easy, as you just push the R2 button to latch onto nearby grapple points. Using webs to swing around the city is the main Spider-Man fantasy, and this game does a fantastic job capturing it.
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