I am very thankful Family Friendly Gaming purchased a copy of Spider-Man on the PS4. The Sony representative told me they would not send us a copy. I define that as they want no sales from Family Friendly Gaming Universe ever. We do a variety of things in Spider-Man.

The simply titled Marvel's Spider-Man allows Peter Parker to freely swing around an open-world New York as his alter ego-to intervene in street crimes, seek out collectibles, and gradually progress through a larger plot that features multiple villains.

The best Spider-Man game ever made… but only just, since it fails to move the superhero video game genre forward in any important way.

Sky high production values and an impressive open world map; Web-swinging and combat are fun, if shallow, and there's plenty of upgrades and side content

Almost every element has been seen before in previous Spider-Man or Batman games; Gameplay lacks depth and variety and the semi-grounded storytelling can be rather dull

More than anything, The Heist leaves you begging for more, and I guess that's what the idea was. It's just enough more Spider-Man to get you back into the swing of things, but it leaves you hanging with an abrupt ending and minimal new side content.

More Spider-Man; Cat and Spidey's relationship; That father question

Too short; Minimal new mechanics; No bosses

This DLC content comes off feeling a little 'more of same.' It doesn't introduce anything terribly new, and feels like it has less content and depth than the first chapter. I'm holding out hope that the third chapter can wrap this up neatly.

Some ill-conceived stealth sequences hold the game back a bit, but overall, Marvel's Spider-Man raises the bar for what a licensed open-world game can be in the same way that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has reshaped superhero movies.

This was a gift for my grandson and he loved it

It has been a number of years, but finally we have a new Spider-Man game, and it's good to have the web slinger back once again. Simply titled Marvel's Spider-Man it may be, although at least the game doesn't take us back to the superhero's over-told origin story.

Marvel's Spider-Man boasts a memorable story that does justice to a classic character. The setpieces are awesome, the story regularly put a smile on my face, and the swinging is satisfying, but everything outside of the main story suffers from feeling a little by-the-numbers and repetitive, yet when...

There are few kinds of games harder to get right than those based on superhero franchises. The problem stems from the very concept itself.

Swinging feels spot on; Simple yet entertaining combat; Some neat twists and turns

Feels somewhat padded; Drowning in open world tropes; Stealth sections aren't great