It's a standard way to design an open world, now, but it's also a weaker one: It replaces a sense of place with a sense of busyness. So many open worlds in the past few years have been built on lists: monuments to explore towers to climb side missions and collectibles and clutter. Insomniac has created a hero who moves like he knows what he's doing, and his abilities bind together your journey through massive setpieces and a large, varied architectural space that is always compelling to move and fight and climb through. Easy button presses use webbing to draw you closer to enemies and hurl them into the air, while others let you bind opponents and toss them around, suspend them like prey for.well, for a spider. Combat is an impressive blend of the rhythmic, simple button presses of the Batman: Arkham titles with abilities and ideas unique to Spider-Man's power set. That feeling, the ease and relaxed pleasure of it, permeates the rest of everything Spider-Man does right. It feels both scripted and improvisational, as if you're guiding an experienced hero and riding along with him. Swinging around a digital version of New York City is the essential joy of this game, just as it was in 2004.
Since the advent of the Assassin's Creed franchise, games have embraced simplicity for traversal, using simple button commands to perform advanced acrobatics. This is de rigeur for open worlds in 2018. In Spider-Man, these movements-the entire web swinging system-is handled with just a couple of buttons. It's an incredible game, set in a world that's gamified just past the point of being truly compelling. Undergirded by brilliant physics and a movement system just as inspired as Treyarch's classic, Spider-Man sells the fantasy of being a superhero, while also managing to be both a little bloated and a little empty. And Marvel's Spider-Man is no exception.ĭeveloped by Insomniac Games exclusively for the PlayStation 4, it's the modern open-world game in micro. This hero, more than any other, is a barometer for the genre: how well a game captures the complexities and scale of swinging through Manhattan speaks to the shape and skeleton of open-world games as a whole.
With a freeform web-swinging system as its backbone, it offered an entire digital New York City and invited the player to be a hero-a goal that nearly every Spider-Man game since has shared. After the genre-defining 2001 release of Grand Theft Auto 3, Treyarch's Spider-Man 2 (2004) was one of the next epochal titles to emphasize free roaming while it functioned as an adaptation of the film of the same name, though, its true ambition was to be a Spider-Man simulator. Spider-Man videogames and the digital open world grew up together, the latchkey children of modern gaming.
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