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Spider-Man PS4

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Spider-Man is currently one of the best and worst games for the PS4. Visually, it’s stunning. Swinging through the city is amazing. Different city parts are replicated in great detail, people are going to work, hailing taxis, using the tube. Missions are varied and complex. You get the collect air samples, detox areas, fight infections of animals, help the police with crime and tech problems. Well done, Insomniac. But. The fights. I’m playing on “friendly” (the easiest game mode) and I die about every 30 seconds in a fight. Enemies surround me and dead. I mash all the buttons but after some minutes of pure frustration, I abort the mission because I clearly can’t do it. No, I’m not talking about the boss fights, I’m talking about the usual street brawls. Apparently Spidey has tons of moves but he stumbles around like a drunk cat, collecting all the bullets, always getting stuck somewhere, L2+R2 rarely finds a target and if it does, they just shot me down from a distance. In Batman games, you could hide in a corner and collect your wits, not so here. I hit an enemy while someone else bludgeons my head with an iron while two or three colleagues use their machine guns on me and I die in a nice exploding cloud of a rocket. While I try to wrestle a gun from an enemy, his 20 friends clobber me dead. I stay in a place for more than 2 seconds, dead. Another problem with the button combos: They don’t work and you have no clue why not. The game displays the combo to press and … nothing happens. You press the evade button during a fight, nothing happens. You press L1+R1 to pick up something to throw, you get interrupted. Or nothing happens. I’ve played a lot of Insomniac games in the past. Ratchet & Clank. Resistance. I can finish most of them. I finished Andromeda. Many Batman games. That’s why I think it’s not me, it’s the game. On top of that, it creates this fake urgency – you can complete most missions at your leisure, no matter how panicked the voices are. So. If you like to be frustrated, if you love to learn 50 button combinations just to advance to the next level, the game is for you. For everyone else, wait for the play-through on Youtube.

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