While Spider-Man may fight to protect New York City, the version of the friendly neighborhood hero portrayed in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is actually a brutal and ruthless menace. Insomniac Games’ beloved version of the wall-crawling hero has been highly praised for capturing Peter Parker’s signature bad luck and good heart. Marvel’s Spider-Man, and its standalone sequel Spider-Man: Miles Morales, also deliver an authentic Spidey experience through open-world web-swinging and fast-paced melee combat. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on PC makes the experience even more glamorous, but it should also remind players of the menace that Spider-Man truly poses.
Combat in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is designed to make players really feel like a wall-crawling superhero. Spider-Man’s superpowered reflexes and signature Spider-Sense make him extremely nimble, allowing him to dodge around his enemies with ease. His iconic web-shooters also play a big role in combat, with players able to web up foes to render them harmless or set up a viscous counterattack. Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered also boasts an arsenal of web-based gadgets, like automated drones and sticky explosives, which reflect Peter Parker’s keen intellect. Marvel’s Spider-Man suit power abilities shake up combat encounters even further, making the wall-crawling hero a force to be reckoned with.
With the combo-based beatdowns that he gives his criminal opponents, Spider-Man come across as the very menace that J. Jonah Jameson claims he is throughout Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered. While most of the game’s bosses are superpowered in some way, the ordinary criminals that Spidey fights are normal humans. This doesn’t stop the arachnid adventurer from launching enemies into the air with uppercuts or slamming them head-first into brick walls. Spider-Man could easily subdue most of these foes with a simple stream of webbing, but the combat system in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered pushes the player to deliver beatdowns that would surely leave enemies in traction. One Spider-Man: No Way Home game move, pulled straight from Marvel’s Spider-Man, thoroughly demonstrates the brutality of Insomniac’s Peter Parker.
Insomniac’s Spider-Man Isn’t Quite A Lethal Protector
While J. Jonah Jameson may have a point about Spider-Man’s methods, the version of the character portrayed in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered stops just short of murder. The comic version of Peter Parker is known to constantly pull his superpowered punches when fighting normal humans, since a single punch has the strength to kill. Insomniac’s version of the character presumably does the same thing, since he fights both human opponents and supervillains in equal measure. A small detail in Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered also sees enemies get webbed to the side of a building should players throw them off, so they never actually plummet to their death. J. Jonah Jameson in Marvel’s Spider-Man may have a point about the web-head hero’s brutality, but Peter Parker certainly isn’t a murderer.
Using the game’s fast and hard-hitting combat system, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered players absolutely pulverize New York’s criminal population. The game’s titular hero may be friendly and witty, but he could probably apprehend criminals without such joyful brutality. J. Jonah Jameson is constantly calling the hero a menace, and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered shows that he may have a point.
