This review will contain many more Spider-puns.
Beginning with the good, the traversal mechanics inSpider-Manare deeply satisfying.
After a fairly quick learning curve, the controls for the impressive, high-speed acrobatics become second nature.
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It may very well be the best mobility scheme ever in an open-world game.
Things can sometimes start to get a little tangled (Spider-pun!)
when Peter lands at his destination and gets into the game’s other mechanics.
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Combat, aside from web-slinging, isSpider-Man’smain activity.
There’s also the issue of the typical open-world RPG power curve.
For the first few levels, combat controls feel overwhelming in their variety yet somehow also sort of limited.
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The cinematic scope of the combat is also something of a double-edged sword.
Spider-Man himself is well written throughout, and his snarky jokes and references feel on point for the character.
It all gets a little sticky (Spider-pun!)
One or two slower-paced segments would have made sense.
The amount of time this Spider-Man game forces the player to play as not-Spider-Man is a little baffling.
These issues aren’t enough to pull the overall experience down though.
