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Game profile
Marvel's Spider-Man
Peter Parker swings through a living New York City as Spider-Man, battling classic Marvel villains. The combination of fluid web swinging, action packed combat and an emotional story made the game a huge success.
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What kind of game this is
At its core this is Action / Adventure, set in the present day. Visually it is going for realism, and the overall tone stays light and upbeat. The world is open, so wandering off and ignoring the main path is part of the deal. Sessions of an hour or two sit at the sweet spot here.
The difficulty is moderate and fair, demanding attention without punishing you for it. The narrative carries the whole thing, and the mechanics serve it. It is a single player experience from start to finish. It runs on 2 platforms. It sits in the mid price bracket.
What stands out
- Fluid web swinging
- Emotional story
- Iconic Marvel villains
This fits you if
- you want to live through a story, not just play a system
- exploring for its own sake is the point for you
- you are after a proper adrenaline rush
- you like getting lost and ignoring the main objective for hours
- the writing matters more to you than the mechanics
- you play alone and want a complete experience without other people
Look elsewhere if
- you skip cutscenes and want to get to the gameplay
- you want to play it side by side with someone
- you prefer a stylised look over realism
- you want something with real weight to it
What it costs you in time
About 20 hours in total. At three evenings a week and two hours each, you will be busy for roughly 3 weeks, or 10 sessions.
How the rating ranks
Critics settled on 90 out of 100, which puts it above 85 percent of the 1206 games here and at rank 152 overall. That is a strong score, comfortably above what most releases manage.
For comparison, Action averages 83 points across the database, so this one sits 7 points above its own genre. The figure rests on 2128 collected ratings.
Released in 2018, so it has 8 years behind it. Usually cheap by now and the rough edges are long fixed.
The facts
- Release year
- 2018
- Genres
- Action, Adventure
- Playtime
- approx. 20 hrs.
- Difficulty
- Moderate, fair
- Story weight
- Carries the whole game
- Play with
- Solo
- Setting
- Present day
- Visual style
- Realistic
- Price bracket
- Mid price
- Platforms
- PC, PlayStation
- Critic rating
- 90 / 100
Direct comparison
| Genres | Release year | Playtime | Critic rating | Price bracket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvel's Spider-Man | 2018 | approx. 20 hrs. | 90 | Mid price |
| Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales | 2020 | approx. 11 hrs. | 89 | Mid price |
| Uncharted: The Lost Legacy | 2017 | approx. 8 hrs. | 87 | Budget |
| Batman: Arkham City | 2011 | approx. 16 hrs. | 91 | Budget |
If you liked this, try these
- Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day, shorter
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day, shorter
- Batman: Arkham City Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day, rated higher
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day
- Batman: Arkham Knight Shared: Action, Adventure, Present day, rated higher