And it’s something they’ve been refining ever since - and will continue to do so, says Spider-Man Creative Director Bryan Intihar, ‘until the day the producers say stop, we’re shipping’. Movement was the very first thing the game’s developers worked on, quickly assembling an unfriendly neighbourhood of grey blocks for their prototype web crawler to work his way around. No, for this particular superhero, it was learning to swing.
For Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man it wasn’t being bitten by a radioactive arachnid, or the murder of a beloved family member at the hands of a career criminal they’d previously let off the hook. Jonah Jameson's radio show where he essentially shouts like a belligerent Alex Jones-inspired character over the airwaves, trying to convince the public that Spider-Man is actually an enemy of the people.All superheroes have a moment in their origin story at which their existence transcends the mundane and they become something truly unique and wondrous.
The main narrative tries to throw a few curve balls that you know are coming, but it also introduces some interesting ideas such as a constantly updating Twitter-esque timeline that you can access from the map screen. Spider-Man's story swings between highs and lows, just like its gameplay. If you've played any of that developer's trilogy, you'll quickly feel right at home. Suffice it to say, Insomniac's version of Spider-Man takes cues from the recent Batman games in more ways than one. In fact, it made me wonder just how similar the two heroes are in their own right, especially when you consider their gameplay repertoires. It's impossible to play Spider-Man and not be reminded of Rocksteady Studios' Batman games. Why this is the Spidey game we've been craving.Marvel's Spider-Man on PS4: Everything to know about Spidey's new game.
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