Marvel's Spider-Man
Scored 9.3/10. The swinging is the best traversal in any open world game, and the story remembers Peter Parker is a person.
Insomniac made the definitive superhero game by nailing the two things that matter: how it feels to be Spider-Man at sixty stories up, and how it feels to be Peter Parker at ground level.
THE SWING IS THE GAME
Web swinging through Manhattan has a weight and a rhythm no other traversal system has matched since. Combat flows off the swing without a seam, the city is dense with incident, and the camera knows when to make it cinema.
WHY 9.3
An experienced Peter, eight years into the job, was the smart call: the story gets to skip the origin and go straight for the heart, and its villains get real motives. The open world side tasks repeat themselves by the back half. Everything on the main line is top shelf. 9.3.
THE INDUSTRY NUMBER
Two scoreboards live on this page and they never mix. The score at the top is Moe's, argued above and signed. The industry's number, the collective critic aggregate, sits here for reference: Metacritic 87. Same game, two verdicts. Read both, then play it yourself.
