Two years after its initial reveal, Marvel’s Spiderman 2 officially released on October 20th, 2023.  The game is about Peter Parker and Miles Morales taking on “Kraven the Hunter” as he invades the fair city of New York.  Though they put up a good fight, they also have to balance their home lives as well in the midst of this catastrophe.  I was lucky enough to get my hands on a copy of the game and played with high expectations, as I played the previous Spiderman games produced by Insomniac Games.  And with great certainty, I can say that they greatly delivered.  If you are looking for a game with action packed gameplay, this is the perfect game for you.

 

One major feature that made this game so wonderful was the main storyline of this video game.  I’m sure we are all familiar with Peter Parker as Spiderman and how he gets corrupted by the alien that is classified as a “symbiote” who is later revealed as the monstrous brute, Venom.  This game tells its own unique version of that and delivers greatly.  The writers and storytellers at Insomniac Games did an outstanding job with combining the story of the symbiote with the classic villain, Kraven, into a work of their own.

 

Not only did the writers do a phenomenal job, but the voice actors did as well.  Yuri Lowenthal, the voice actor for Peter Parker, did an amazing job showing the emotion behind the corrupted Spiderman.  In the story, Peter is greatly affected by the symbiote as it gives him immense power and strength, making him think he should keep it as it would make him a better and stronger Spiderman.  Little does Peter realize, but the symbiote slowly starts to take over him, and it shows through emotion.  Throughout the story, Peter becomes more angry and enraged to everyone around him, even the ones closest to him.  Yuri Lowenthal does a great job showing that emotion through Peter and really gives the illusion of just how furious Peter Parker can be.

 

Finally, one last thing that makes this game great is the new mechanics they have added to the game compared to their previous Spiderman games.  In their previous games, the Spidermen would swing along the city stopping crime and bringing safety to New York.  However in this game, their swinging becomes more advanced.  Insomniac increased the levels of the speed of swinging up to 2x so that you get the full experience of swinging.  Not only that, but they have added the classic web wings to Spiderman so that he can soar across the city that can carry him over waters and buildings.  Not only is the swinging improved, but so are the abilities.  We all know Miles Morales for his powerful electric powers and ability to go invisible.  This game gives you a variety of abilities relating to his powers to show how powerful they really are.

 

This game lets you express your inner Spiderman as you go through your own story and fight powerful foes as you upgrade your own abilities so you can take them down.  There are many, many different things that make this game so wonderful and great, but those are the main ones that I found to my liking and really stood out to me.  I would recommend this game to anyone who is looking for not only a challenging game, but an interesting storyline produced for true Spiderman fans to enjoy.