Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Review Embargo Lifts on October 16

The review embargo for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is set to lift on Monday, October 16, 2023, at 10:00 AM EDT.

[Bathyj]

Can't wait

[senorfartcushion]

If all the breakage of a review embargo can get you is possible spoilers for the game, why are you excited?

[Hofstaderman]

This isn't a MS game. We want to be amped for the release and getting the reviews in before the time builds up to this excitement. Typically Sony game reviews are released before the time to demonstrate their polished state and it helps bring in the late wave of pre-order sales

[Elda]

Why shouldn't he be? It's Spider-Man 2!!

[MrNinosan]

4 days ahead of any release, smells confidence.

[Exvalos]

Early review embargo shows confidence in there product, ladies and gentlemen I do believe we have a 90 metacritic score on our hands.

[senorfartcushion]

Are there any triple A games that get less than 80 nowadays anyway?

[BehindTheRows]

Does Redfall count? :D

[MrNinosan]

Exvalos said 90.
What does less than 80 have to do with it?
But in the range 80-89, there is a lot.

Here are some of the latest AAA-games from both Xbox- and Playstation-studios.

Xbox:
Forza Horizon 5 - 92
Psychonauts 2 - 87
Halo Inifite - 87
Starfield - 84
Gears 5 - 84
Age of Empires IV - 81
Gears Tactics - 80
Minecraft Legends - 71
Minecraft Dungeons - 70
Sea of Thieves - 69
Bleeding Edge - 66
Red Fall - 56

Xbox Studios have 5 AAA games under 80.

Playstation:
God of War Ragnarok - 94
Last of Us Part 2 - 93
Uncharted 4 - 93
Demon's Souls - 92
Horizon Forbidden West - 88
Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - 88
Gran Turismo 7 - 87
Spider-Man - 87
Returnal - 86
Miles Morales - 85
Ghost of Tsushima - 83
Sackboy: A Big Adventure - 79

Playstation Studios have 1 AAA game under 80.

[senorfartcushion]

MrNinosan

Because 80 is still 10 arbitrary points below 90 and still an INCREDIBLE SCORE.

Also why have you forgotten third parties, and Steam and Nintendo im your weird list of AAA games?

[senorfartcushion]

Behindtherows

Yeah that's a good example. Usually they're Switch ports of sports games. Most games get high scores simply for being AAA these days.

[MrNinosan]

@senor
I didn't forgot anything.
I chose to pick first party games from Sony amd Xbox, as those 2 are the concurrents.
Exvalos mentions he believe we have a 90 here, which is rare for first party games.

If I'd make a list woth third party AAA games, it would be a long long list of under 80.

[mkis007]

90's are really hard to get. A couple outliers are enough to make it impossible,.

[Wintersun616]

Some sites will give it an eye brow raising low score, just for the clicks as usual. It's inevitable with all the best games from Sony and Nintendo.

[Exvalos]

And I was right a 91.

[Themba76]

Now that’s true confidence in your game unlike starfield

[Workshyskiver]

You realise this is less time between embargo date and the general release date for Starfield? 4 days for Spiderman, 6 days for starfield.

[Jin_Sakai]

Except they’re not holding back reviews copies like Bethesda to boost launch Metacritic.

[MrNinosan]

Starfield was playable since 1st of September, for everyone who wanted. 1 month subscription and early access cost for Starfield is almost half price of Spidey.

Not a single true fan waited til the 6th.

[andy85]

That isn't true in the slightest. It was under a day with the early access. It counts when the general public can first play the game.

[EvertonFC]

That was too pro xbox sites, they didn't give copies to anyone else

[tay8701]

Wrong it was less than a day.

[Hofstaderman]

You can't even compare this game to Starfield. In terms of polish it's going to be night and day.

[Aloymetal]

''In terms of polish it's going to be night and day.''
In terms of everything is gonna be night and day, polish, quality, meta score and SALES!
We really don't need a crystal ball to predict all of these, such an easy task;)

[outsider1624]

I gotta leave reddit, youtube. Would want to avoid the leaks.

[senorfartcushion]

I agree. I've just pre-ordered the game this morning and these days are the most annoying due to fanboys from either side fighting over which rich videogame company gets better reviews.

People are writing about how "excited" they are. Why excited? It's a AAA game, they rarely score low in this broken industry. The biggest news companies like IGN fawn over AAA games regardless of quality, and the only thing that can come from "extensive coverage" is a spoiled experience.

[Wintersun616]

Maybe they're excited to actually play and enjoy the game? I know it's wild to expect an enjoyable experience from a game. Some people haven't had that in many many years.

[senorfartcushion]

No no

They're excited for the review scores.

They're actually putting the playing jeopardy.

[repsahj]

Spider-man 2 is almost upon us!!! I'll pause playing Baldur's gate 3 to give way to this another masterpiece.

[Elda]

Oh yesss!

[Abear21]

Likely the best game of the trio but will score the lowest just watch