Poll: One Year Later, How Would You Rate Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PS5?

Not as hot on the Spider-Man games as I am the other first party stuff, so still waiting for a decent sale price on physical. It’s held its price exceedingly well so far fair play.

Annoyingly too short. Did really enjoy it whilst I was playing it but then it's over and just feel it didn't build significantly enough from the first game

Started off really good! Then a few days in me and my brother noticed we were 85% done with the story, and we were doing all sorts of side missions and pacing ourselves well. Not to mention the later part of the game was basically a rip off of Web of Shadows…It was fun though, I’m not denying that. Just a lackluster story.

I thought it was a HHUUGGE disappointment. Terrible writing and characters - why is everybody so nice all the time ? The dialogue is pure pre teen cringe. Peters voice when he wears the dark suit is beyond cringe. Peters Parker is such a limp, wet lettuce of a character, not to mention the even more cringey "Danicasts".
The side quests are ridiculous- no I don't want to walk 5 miles following your grandads inhaler scent, thank you. The quest that has you playing the deaf girl tagging graffiti is ridiculous- just let us be Spiderman !! And I don't want to solve a random crime 2 minutes after doing the last one.
And since when was playing a Spidey character akin to almost being an ultra powerful Jedi Knight ?
Players hated the Mary Jane stealth sections in the first game so instead of taking that feedback on board they introduce more .."but hey, this time let's give her a weapon ! Awesome! "
So yeah I didn't like it much ...5/10

Fun game. Too many similarities with previous games for it's own good, however.
The IP shout be given a rest for a few years. No DLC should be done for SM2.
Bring it back later with fresh ideas for the 3rd game.

@KingPev I actually liked the side quest of finding the girl’s grandfather. Felt exactly like something Spider-Man would do. And I didn’t have any gripes about his Symbiote voice. But I do agree with some of your other points.

I thought it was good. I do agree with some of the points given above.

@LavenderShroud ...but his symbiote voice sounded like my little nephew trying to be angry 🤣 it did have some fun elements but overall I was so disappointed

I voted that it is very good. I think some of the story beats fell a little flat, and it seemed rushed in some aspects, but there was a lot to love. It also has some of the best, if not the best, traversal mechanics ever — it’s a real joy to play.

Personally I thought it was meh; didn't really do much different to spiderman 1. . Suits were pointless - mostly just skins at least in spiderman 1 each suit has specific abilities. Miles morales and Peter parker played almost identically. They messed up the bad guys with a terrible story especially venom. Would have been better eith Eddie Brock and gave kraven a decent story not as some homicidal maniac

I'd say a 8-8.5/10
It's very good game but doesn't feel as special as the first one. Thats ofc to be expected from the third game within the same city with same-ish gameplay

As far as I am concerned, Peter Parker is Spider-Man. Everyone else is just a pretender to the crown.

I'm sure a lot of people are going to take issue with me for saying that and fine. I'm not here to try and convince you. But I hated the ending and I refuse to buy the next game if Peter is some nobody side character whilst someone else gets all the glory.

Id give it 8/10. Yeh it was safe but i enjoyed the story, gameplay is still great, the fast travel is super smooth. Would like to see daredevil and punisher turn up at some point lol

I loved the game but I hated how it really followed the formula of the first one especially on the first half of the story which followed the quest structure of the first game but changed the characters.

I'd say it's a 8/10 game.

I enjoyed it, had fun, have no desire to return.

Spider-Man 1 was revelatory and thrilling and Miles was a pretty exciting showcase for the PS5.
Spidey 2 ran into the same problems this gen as the Horizon and God of War sequels: it just felt like it all had been done before and was more of the same (in some ways, it was even less).

I dont regret my time, I enjoyed it a lot (a solid 8 or 8.5), and I’ll be there for the next one. But I really hope we see something really exciting again.

Story and characters were a huge disappointment, I was very let down and underwhelmed. The wing suits were great and really enjoyable, but overall it felt like a game I had already played

Knowing now that there won't be any DLC, it feels very underbaked.

I dropped off it really fast, but I have recently picked up a second hand copy to give it another go.

I loved the first and Miles but this one, I just wasn't enjoying.

I don't think it's fair for me to rate it, but I would say that maybe this feels just too iterative and for someone who is not really a superhero or Spiderman sort of person it may have just been a game too many without really switching it up.

@LifeGirl Personally I feel the exact same way you do it's one of the reasons SM 2 was such a let down for me that and providing the most perfect casting for Venom there's ever been and then cutting 90% of his screen time 😅. And personally I reeeeeeeeeally don't like Silk so finding out she's being shoehorned into Spider-Man 3 made that ending even worse for me 😅

It's a solid 8. Worth mentioning in the Game of the Year categories, but was never going to win whilst Baldur's Gate 3 was in the equation.

I completed SM2 in about 20 hours. and I don't plan on playing it again.

I've done over 1300 hours in BG3, and still plan to do another run. That says it all at the end of the day...

The DLC was really good for the first one. Personally I need a break from spiderman but shame they didn't do the same for the sequel. The game had issues and some trimmed dlc could of been good.

I'm just waiting another year for the remaster

I give it a 7. Decent, but far from excellent. Definitely not a GOTY.

I really liked it but it’s about as good it could get, not sure where they can take it now other than more of the same.

The web wings but were too much, spent the entire game gliding and not swinging.

People love the idea of Venom, but nobody likes any representation of him in any media other than comics.

Too short for a sequel

It’s very good. I loved it! But not in my top 10 games I’ve played.

I give it a 8 out of 10. Really good game so hoping insomniac aims for more in the next game

I thought it was decent but fell under the category of 'iterative sequel' that last year was so well known for.

Spider-Man 1 had the advantage of being the best Spider-Man game thus far and it was always going to be hard to top.

As a die hard Spider-man fan, I felt that Insomniac deviated too far from the source material and I didn't really like how Peter was pushed to the side in favour of Miles.

It was a solid sequel though. Didn't under or overwhelm me.

I enjoyed it but multiple things held it back for me, for one it was playing it too safe with with activities(I skipped it when I did everythingin the first game), the stealth was a downgrade(Stealth tools are gone for some reason) and very easy to exploit the AI(Since they are too stupid to look up, the ending bossfight, MJ being overpowered against trained soldiers of Kraven, the ending bossfight being anticlimactic, and the Venom not being long enough.

I tend to just fart about in these kinda games so itll last me ages 🤣

disappointed. The biggest criticism from the first game was the missions involving being "on rails" as side characters like MJ, etc.

What did Spider-Man 2 do in light of that critique?

DOUBLED DOWN.

I think I'd have to mark it as "Solid" even though I overall thought it was disappointing.

I expected the game play loop to be similar as the prior game(s), but what really irked me was the treatment of the characters, especially Peter Parker. It's probably been said 1000x here an elsewhere, but they really neutered him in favor of pushing some other, lesser characters to the forefront. I felt like it was more like Spider-Therapy at times. Mary Jane was....pretty lame. Miles was great, but being set-up to replace Peter is overall stupid IMO. The writing was just forgettable and felt (dare I say it) woke.

Great game play, though, and traversing around the world was as fun as ever. However, I think they should have saved the wing-suit till later in the game. Getting it right off the bat made me feel like swinging was kind of pointless.

As a fan of Spider-Man comics for 20 years. I absolutely loved this game. It was very short yes, but the production value was fantastic. The story is on par with the first one, which already had a great narrative. If every AAA games and comic book adaptations could look like this I would buy all my games day one.

I didn’t like the bits with MJ or the deaf girl where you were forced to play as them. Would have been better if those characters were developed better, their missions were optional/side objectives and gameplay in a better context. Also although the wing suit was cool took away from the Spider-Man ness of it all. It was still enjoyable but could have been so much more, I’d give it a 7/8 out of 10

@Jedihillis Yea totally agree re the wing suit, or maybe if it had been an end game unlock that you had to complete x missions for or something would have made it better

It was great on a technical level, looked and played nice, but writing took a huge hit. It was like developers thought "the first game was too mature, let's add some dumb ***** for kiddies". And boy they did. And not to mention Peter's new face. When he was on a date with MJ it looked like sugar mommy was walking her baby.

@Dalamar I will never get over the massive face downgrade. I really loved Peter’s old face, he looked like a dorky guy that had been Spider-Man for years now.

I think we tend to over expect most of the times. First game was great, and I think no one really expected to be so blown away. I personally loved the story, they could just script and film.

So the second one we get a 2nd playable Spider man, bigger map, new mechanics, new skills etc.

We don't need a game that just flips the world upside down every single time, innovating everything. The game is super solid.

@KingPev that’s pretty much how i felt. I couldn’t ever bring myself to finish it. None of the characters are interesting and they all look and sound bad. Also having sheds played this exact game twice before with the first two games it’s just busy work at this point. I just played all the way through Mad Max from 2016. That games was way more fun and entertaining than Spider Man. But that’s just my thoughts.

Reading most of the comments here is pure entertainment. So, the game that was up for several game of the year awards, was voted best of the year by this very community, has a freaking 90 on metacritic is supposed to be mediocre? Sure, sure.

I firmly believe that people are influenced by others more than they realize or care to admit. The complaints arose when people realized that Peter Parker would be replaced by Miles Morales. Just like they hate when a white character in a tv series/movie is replaced by a black actor ("we will not be replaced" and all that jazz) .

I Just think Kraven should've been venom. Would've made much more sense & Harry / the suit could be other playable characters in other games.

The suit could have been corrupted by Kraven and become Venom.

Too short and super easy

@naruball I think the stories had more low moments than the first, but overall we got a bigger game with new mechanics, another playable character with his own set of moves and storyline.

Not a perfect game, but a very good one. Looking for a cheap disc version to have in my permanent library.

I think the concept of a Spider-Man game is actually very limited. If you think about other games you can take your character and put them on a horse, or in a car, or speedboat or jet pack or whatever, and place them in the Jungle, Desert, Space or depths of hell.

Spider-man swings on webs in New York, and that’s hard to spin into 3 games.

I thought it was fantastic. Great story, great presentation, great gameplay. Popcorn food of the highest quality. Had an amazing time playing this with my son.

@F1at8mot0 ...yeah loved that too. Fond memories of that game !

@naruball it was super polished, great graphics and the traversal was fantastic. I have no issues with MM at all, I read the comics when he was first introduced and the Spider Verse movies are stunning. But SM2 the game was so bland and dull with lame characters due to the writing. I wanted it to be so much more

I really loved it. But I enjoyed the original more

@MrGawain

I think you make an interesting point, but in my perspective it all comes down to the story. You can take the character to other cities / worlds. The sky is the limit. But it all really depends on how creative the devs allow themselves to be.

Maybe it's because I'm from the audiovisual "world", but I'm just a believe that creative stories are the prime point. A decent gameplay is mandatory in order to not work against the overall experience and break the vibe. But if the story is good, creative and you get hooked, then the environment becomes secondary (to me, obviously).

It was good, well put together but it didn't grip me as much as SM

Gameplay etc was really good again but the story was a bit underwhelming.

Technically the game is amazing (no pun intended 😂) - swinging through built-up environments is very demanding on the console, but the PS5 manages it superbly. For actual gameplay/missions I thought the game was solid but nothing special.

8/10 game . could’ve been dlc to the first game in terms of how little it improved over the first. i think both games are 8/10

I didn't expect to like Kraven so much
Felt like the best of both worlds between SM1 and Miles.
Fun gameplay and powers
Interesting villains
One of my favorite games on PS5

One of the most disappointing sequels I've ever played.

Do folk actually pay attention to the stories in these games 😀

Decent 7/10, great traversal and combat bogged down by an awful short story and a lack of the main villain the games entire hype cycle was based around.

Also handled dual protagonists worse than games 2 generations older (GTAV) and failed to level up the open world or its structure in any meaningful way.

Big changes needed for 3.

Ugly Mary Jane/10

Jokes aside, it felt very mid. Especially compared to the first game, which I adored. The writing felt cringe, like what a Liberal Arts graduate thinks real people sound like.

Finally got around to beating the Remaster of the first game, and I'm working on Miles. Hoping to get to 2 maybe some time next year when I find a copy on discount.

@naruball I would have felt the exact same way if Peter was being replaced by the very white Scarlet Spider.
Racism is just a lazy cop out excuse.

@naruball I mean I loved Miles in Spiderverse but in Spiderman 2 and Miles Morales I was just not that much of a fan of him. Would definitely prefer it if Peter was still the main Spiderman in future games.

It’s a really good game for sure. The boss fight with The Lizard is one of the best, most well designed and well balanced boss fights I can think of. It has a little bit of everything in it and is an absolute blast. And Venom……!!!! How fun was that to not only fight him and see those cinematics with him, but play him as well!!! OFF. THE. CHARTS!!!!