Review | Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Spider-Man has always been with the themes as a formula. This is no different in this spin-off, which revolves around Miles Morales, a young man whose mother fights in politics against corrupt politicians and rogue companies. The central theme is electricity. You notice it in the story, but also in Miles Morales himself, electricity is what distinguishes him most from Peter Parker.
Miles can energize his body with “venom”, a kind of orange lightning. With venom, he can hurl enemies through rooms, make them immobile, or simply provide them with an electric shock. He also uses electricity in puzzles. Miles needs, for example, to charge generators or connect electricity networks to venom.
Electricity also plays a major role thematically. A new energy company, Roxxon, appears to have a very big say in New York City’s work. Roxxon’s motives therefore seem double. Miles’s mother, who still has to recover from the loss of her husband in the first part, therefore turns to politics.
There is therefore a lot, um, tension (see what i did there :p ) between the family members. And then there is Miles’s best friend, who, together with her brother and Miles herself, is closely involved in the development of new technology. They are working on a new form of energy that could replace electricity: NuForm.
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The story in Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a bit silly, but the game gets away with that because even the somewhat silly narrative brackets remain entirely within the acceptable comic book spectrum. This game contains some strong and genuinely emotional narrative moments. Developer Insomniac Games does that very well. Miles Morales goes through bizarre things, but feels more human than superhero.
Peter Parker doesn’t play a big role in this story, if you think that after the trailers. He is going on vacation with his now well-known girlfriend, and so Miles, for the first time, has to take over from him for a week or two.
This part was therefore completed much earlier than the original. You’ll be through it within twelve hours, but it feels much faster. The pacing is very high and exciting turns follow each other in rapid succession. It is therefore difficult to put the controller down. Compared to the original Marvel’s Spider-Man, Miles Morales feels trim. After completing the game, you can still play the friendly neighborhood hero. Miles has his own app that residents can use to call on him. It is an ingenious alternative to a quest system.
Also interesting are the special powers that Miles has. The normal combat, against normal enemies, was a bit more aggressive in the previous part, given Miles has invisibility and Peter Parker had some strong area-of-attack attacks. Perhaps the subtlest difference between the two games is the music. Miles Morales leans a little more towards hip hop. Beats are mixed through the symphonic orchestral music, which you hear well during fights, among other things, a subtle but appropriate addition.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales will be released on the PlayStation 4, but also on the new PlayStation 5. This game is very nice on the PlayStation 5, partly thanks to ray tracing. You play at 30 fps. Without ray tracing, the game runs at 60 fps.
There is a time when ray tracing almost perfectly is on display . You then enter an enemy base under supervision. The hallway is infused with purple lighting and flashing monitors with an Outrun-esque aesthetic. In this shot, the lighting reflects on the shiny coats, but especially on the floors.
Ray tracing also gets the literal opportunity to shine on the windows of flats and in the well-placed rain puddles. Whether all of that justifies the loss of 60 fps is personal. I don’t think so. That high frame rate is really nice, especially during the hectic fights. But you have to make that decision yourself.
In the game you don’t notice much of the new adaptive triggers, although they do make sure that you have to press “harder” while spinning through the city, a great effect. The haptic feedback is not very impressive either. You only really notice when very heavy enemies thunder through the image, such as an enemy of rhino-like proportions.
Whether you play this game on the previous or the new PlayStation, Miles Morales is very rewarding. It tells a concise yet intense story, introduces some really entertaining twists, and there’s a lot to collect, solve and battle out in New York.
Score:
9,0
+ Very entertaining storyline
+ Beautifull and vivid game world
+ Ray tracing showcases beautifully
– Faster finished than hoped
News | Sony releases Spider-Man commercial: Miles Morales
Sony has released a commercial for the upcoming game Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
The commercial lasts half a minute and is called ‘Be Yourself’.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a stand-alone Spider-Man game set in the same game world as Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game has a completely new story that revolves around Miles Morales. There is a special edition of PlayStation 5 that will also include a remaster of Marvel’s Spider-Man. In addition, the game is also coming to PlayStation 4.
The game can be purchased from November 12 – PlayStation 5 will be released on November 19.
News | Miles Morales will be the only playable character in Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Miles Morales is the only playable character in the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
Insomniac Games’ creative director Brian Horton announced this in an interview with Game Informer. He says that players only control Miles and not other characters.
Some fans hoped that during the game they could also get started with Peter Parker, the main character from the previous game. In the previous Spider-Man, players also controlled Mary Jane at times, and some gamers had expected a similar structure for the upcoming game, but with Peter Parker instead of Mary Jane.
The full interview can be seen below.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a standalone Spider-Man game set in the same game world as Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game has a completely new story that revolves around Miles Morales. There is a special edition of PlayStation 5 that will also include a remaster of Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game will be released on PS5 and PS4 on November 19th.
News | Sneak and Fight in Spider-Man: Miles Morales
New gameplay footage of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales has been released through Game Informer.
The images focus on prowling and crawling around, as well as fighting enemies. The gameplay seems very similar to Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a stand-alone Spider-Man game set in the same game world as Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game has a completely new story that revolves around Miles Morales. There is a special edition of PlayStation 5 that will also include a remaster of Marvel’s Spider-Man.
The game will be released on PS5 and PS4 on November 19th.
News | New gameplay and screenshot from Spider-Man: Miles Morales
New screenshots and gameplay footage of Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales have been released.
The images are part of the cover story of the most recent issue of Game Informer. Gameplay footage shows Miles Morales taking on an in-game boss, while screenshots show Morales zooming through Manhattan.
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Just like in the previous game, Manhattan has been divided into different districts, in which all kinds of crimes can be stopped. The soundtrack focuses on hip-hop, including original and licensed songs by Kid Cudi and Jaden Smith.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a stand-alone Spider-Man game set in the same game world as Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game has a completely new story that revolves around Miles Morales. There is a special edition of PlayStation 5 that will also include a remaster of Marvel’s Spider-Man. The game will be released on PS5 and PS4 on November 19th.
Review | Marvel's Avengers
Developer Crystal Dynamics has made it clear that Marvel's Avengers must become a living universe. With a cooperative multiplayer mode that is constantly updated with new content, Marvel’s Avengers should last for years. The story mode intended as an introduction and the cooperative multiplayer are qualitatively far apart. It's surprising that the "single player mode" is the signed winner.
The narrative part of Marvel’s Avengers knows how to perfectly respond to the inner Marvel fan by not putting someone like Captain America or Iron Man at the center, but rather the young superhero-in-the-cap Kamala Khan. The fantasy trip for Marvel fans kicks off right when Kamala enters Avengers Day, sort of an open-air Marvel convention. The biggest difference is that the visitors do not marvel at cosplayers, but at the real superheroes in the flesh. If the future Ms. Marvel suddenly bumps into Thor, she’s not the only one who squeaks with enthusiasm.
However, that euphoria is short-lived. The Avengers giant airship goes up in flames after an attack. The nasty stuff that is released during this process turns Kamala into the very flexible Ms. Marvel. Then a classic origins story unfolds, in which Kamala not only discovers her own super powers, but also brings the fallen Avengers back together.
Although the story does not really surprise, it is a succession of fan material. In addition to Kamala, you regularly get the other Avengers under your control. They all have roughly the same type of attacks, such as a light and a heavy attack and a remote attack. But where Iron Man, for example, shoots with his repulsors, Captain America throws his shield , Thor with his hammer and The Hulk just pulls a fresh piece of debris from the ground towards the ill-fated enemy.
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The unambiguous controls allow you to switch effortlessly between the different heroes, but you can also take the time to master a specific superhero. The story mode is not nearly enough to unlock all skills for the different heroes. This game is made to last much longer. The multiplayer DNA is deeply rooted in Marvel’s Avengers and the narrative part cannot be separated from the cooperative battles.
For example, during the “single player” you will be presented with missions several times that you can play with multiple players. If no partners are found through matchmaking, computer-controlled heroes fill in the blanks. These missions are immediately out of tune, the environments stand out against the locations you play through on your own, objectives are generic and the interaction between the Avengers lacks the credible touch that Kamala and Bruce Banner put on the stage in the beginning.
It is a shame that it has been decided to put so much emphasis on multiplayer, because at the moment there is a lot of fun to be had in Marvel’s Avengers, especially as a single player game.
That line continues unabated once you launch Avengers Initiative: the real multiplayer part of the game. This is set after the campaign, when the world is still plagued by various threats and the Avengers are needed everywhere to quell conflict. Some missions are done in minutes, others take considerably longer, but none of the online activities really surpass the single player.
Interiors are eagerly reused and usually have the ambiance of a dental practice. Usually the ultimate goal is to smash a few generators, defend a few checkpoints, or protect a few S.H.I.E.L.D agents. In addition, you should of course punch everyone you meet in the face, because that is what Marvel’s Avengers is all about: fight and fight, preferably as spectacular as possible.
Sometimes that results in unadulterated superhero fun, sometimes the chaos simply becomes too much. When vibranium shields, divine hammers, green fists, bullets, lasers, debris, robot parts and outstretched limbs fill the screen, it’s not just your eyes that struggle to keep up with the chaos.
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Nevertheless, there is enough in the barrel for any superhero. In addition to the missions and routine gear upgrades, there are also daily and weekly challenges that earn you points as part of the Hero Challenge Cards. You can complete those challenges anywhere. In a story mission, online, on your own: everything counts. This way you can unlock new costumes, emotes and name tags per character. The game only gets a bit of an appearance because you can also unlock everything in the Challenge Cards with real money.
If the online activities were really cool and you enjoyed playing them over and over again, that was until then. But now that the missions are also repeated after a short while, you have to grind a lot to complete the Challenge Card and thus unlock all costumes.
Marvel’s Avengers really does need some work to break through online. In addition to the fact that the missions get boring relatively quickly, the game is not entirely perfect technically. Sometimes you fall through the ground, enemies end up in closed environments and there are quite a few graphical oddities in the game. Crystal Dynamics will add new characters in the coming period, including Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, Black Panther and, exclusively on the PlayStation, Spider-Man. That will only make Marvel’s Avengers attractive to more people, as playing as your favorite Marvel hero is the game’s biggest draw.
The fighting system is right, the powers are right, the balance is right: every superhero is fun to play with. The heroes’ designs are debatable, but the unlockable costumes solve that problem for most people. It is a shame that it has been decided to put so much emphasis on multiplayer, because at the moment there is a lot of fun to be had in Marvel’s Avengers, especially as a single player game. The multiplayer is now on level The Incredible Hulk (2008). Let’s hope it doesn’t take Crystal Dynamics eleven years to reach level of Endgame.
Score:
8,0
+ the “single player” turns out to be surprisingly good
+ Great sound and special effects
+ Every superhero is well put together with their own moves and custom costumes.
– Overly cluttered War Table
– Multiplayer recycles content
– Various technical issues
News | Spider-Man is coming to Marvel's Avengers on PlayStation consoles
The PlayStation versions of Marvel's Avengers will receive Spider-Man as an extra character after release.
The popular character is set to appear for free on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game in 2021. Crystal Dynamics has indicated that they’ll pay a lot of attention to the controls of Spider-Man, so that players feel “graceful and light” when they websling through the city.
Despite Spider-Man coming only to the PlayStation consoles, this version of the superhero has nothing to do with the character from Marvel’s Spider-Man, the Insomniac game released on PlayStation 4.
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Marvel’s Avengers will be released on September 4 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. On an as yet unknown date, the game will also be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X – the next-gen consoles should be available sometime late this year.