Review: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - A Familiar But Fantastic Superhero Sequel (PushSquare)

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a confident sequel that builds on the previous games in practically every way possible. Smart additions and refinements to traversal, combat, and open world activities mean this is the best Spidey game from Insomniac yet. We do have some minor criticisms about the story, and the combat does become repetitive eventually, but this is overall an absolute blast full of moments that'll surprise and delight.

[andy85]

This is a funny one. Says it does everything the first one does but better. Then gives it a lower score than the first one 😂😂 that also applies to TOTK and that didn't get docked for it

[SyntheticForm]

It's the "familiar" bit. It gets a great score for the execution but the series is beginning to get into familiar and largely-the-same-as-the-previo us-game territory.

This is where I think developers need to be careful. You certainly don't want a Gears/Halo/pick any Ubisoft third-party game situation where the devs just crank out more of certain games because they sell.

[andy85]

I agree but again, that's the same as it was with TOTK so it should be uniform across the board. But that's Nintendo points. It's Spiderman it's hard to make it different as leaving the city probably wouldn't work. Same with Batman and Arkham.

[goldwyncq]

TOTK has a lower Metacritic score than the first game, just saying.

[ObsessedGeorge]

So, I guess this does not apply to the Assasin's Creed copy paste sequels? Only Spider-Man has familiar and repetitive gameplay. Ok.

[SyntheticForm]

Literally nobody on the planet has said that "only" Spider-Man has this issue. Actually, most third party AAA games receive these complaints as well as some first party.

[ObsessedGeorge]

I don't see reviewers complain about it in other games though. They gave the open world time wasters Assassin's Creed games higher score than Spider-Man 2.