DO NOT BUY Spider-Man 2 - VERY disappointing!

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Spider-Man 2 on PS5. It's been out a few

weeks and I thought I'd make a video

explaining why I found the game kind of

disappointing. As a massive Spider-Man

fan, I knew I just had to play this game.

So far it's just been kind of bland,

boring, and uninspiring, and I don't

really feel like it brings much new to the

Spider-Man gaming franchise. Sure, New

York City has never looked better in any

Spider-Man game ever before, but that's

just like a visual thing. As for gameplay,

the better looking New York doesn't really

bring much to the table. And I feel like

this game, although it looks prettier than

previous Spider-Man games, obviously

because it's like the latest and greatest,

I don't really feel like this is the best

Spider-Man game out there in terms of

gameplay. I guess you could say one of the

biggest new gameplay features of

Spider-Man 2 has to be the wingsuit and

the ability to kind of glide around the

city. Now a lot of people say this is like

a really good feature, it's really fun,

it really makes getting around the city

and getting over the rivers where there's

not really anything to swing on apart from

the bridges, it makes those things much

better, much But I disagree. I think the

wingsuit kind of ruins the whole

experience of being Spider-Man, where

you're supposed to be web-slinging around

the city. What's the point of having webs

when you can just fly? Obviously flying

around the city is gonna be easier and

faster than swinging around the city.

That's why Superman is more powerful than

Spider-Man, because he can like fly. He

doesn't have to swing around like a Tarzan

chimpanzee in the jungle. But that's the

whole point of being Spider-Man. You're

not supposed to be able to fly, and I

don't think Spider-Man has ever had a

wingsuit in any of the movies or any of

the other kind of shows or cartoons,

because that would just kind of ruin the

whole point of being a Spider-Man. You're

supposed to be using web slinging, not

using a stupid wingsuit or like a jetpack.

Why doesn't he just get in a car like GTA

style and drive around the city? Because

that's probably faster than swinging

around, as long as there's no traffic jam.

So I'm not really a big fan of the whole

wingsuit. I guess it's kind of cool, but

then it completely ruins the point of

being Spider-Man. Why don't they just say,

oh, hell with it, let's let the players

put like a jetpack on his feet so he can

fly upwards and give him like a boost in

elevation so he could swing further? Or

why don't we just put like jetpacks on his

arms and legs so he can fly like Iron Man?

Why not? So apart from the wingsuits and

the better-looking New York City, I don't

really see much new to this game compared

to older Spider-Man games. And I've been

playing Spider-Man games for, what, the

past 20 years? I remember when the very

first 3D one came out on PlayStation 1 and

it blew everyone away with this massive

open-world New York City that you could

just swing around. Back then you couldn't

actually land on the streets because you

would just die and it would be game over.

But now you can land on the street just

like any other open-world game, and I

guess it's impressive, but really not much

has changed in the Spider-Man games much

when it comes to the core gameplay and the

combat fighting mechanics. The combat is

kind of like the same as it's always been,

kind of like Batman or Assassin's Creed

style, where you've got a bunch of enemies

grouping around you and then you've got to

try and time counterattacks and dodges and

juggle them up in the air with your webs

and do combos and stuff like that. The

combat never really feels brutal or like

bone-crunching or satisfying or very

violent. I always found it kind of strange

how weak Spider-Man seems. He's supposed

to be really strong and have like super

Spidey strength, but then he throws a

punch at a normal thug or like a normal

guy and it doesn't really seem very

painful. He just goes, oh, and he's like

staggered a little bit, but he doesn't

like break bones and shatter jaws and

knock people flying with his punches even

though he's supposed to be super strong.

And I always find like the combos and the

juggling kind of combat to be very lame

and not very powerful. It's not like

Mortal Kombat where you got like finishing

brutalities and the guy punches the other

guy and his spine shatters. I wish

Spider-Man was like that, but I know it's

aimed at kids, so it's never gonna be like

18+ gory and violent. But I think most

of us who grew up as kids watching

Spider-Man on TV and watching the movies

and being fans of the franchise, we were

kids and now we're like 20-year-olds,

30-year-olds, even 40-year-old adults.

And I would like a Spider-Man where he

does like Mortal Kombat-style fatality

using his web-slinging. For example, he

could sling his webs, attach it onto the

enemy, and then like grab them and then

slam them into the ground and their entire

skeleton just shatters and there's like a

massive explosion of blood. That would be

so amazing, but I know they're never gonna

do that with a Spider-Man game because

they want to make the most money possible.

And the biggest target audience for a

video game is the billions and billions of

children and And if they make the game

really brutal and gory like that, all

those kids who are going to be potential

customers and buyers of the game— or well,

the parents are going to buy the game—

they're going to be eliminated from that

target audience and they're going to make

less money. So they're not going to do

that. I just find it kind of lame because

the Spider-Man games don't really feel

like they've made massive drastic

improvements or changes over the previous

iterations of Spider-Man games. And I know

that's because— that's just because Sony

owns the licensing to Spider-Man. They

have to pump out a new Spider-Man game

every year and they're playing it safe.

They want to make make the maximum money

with the least risk. And the best way to

do that is to make like a game aimed

towards kids. And I just, I find that very

disappointing. And the gameplay of

Spider-Man games is just kind of bland and

boring to me at this point. I don't really

find that there's anything new in these

Spider-Man games that's going to really

capture my interest. I've got some ideas.

I think it'd be cool if you could kind of

bioengineer the webs, so you could give

the webs more interesting attributes,

like they could burn or have like

inflammatory effects and set the enemies

on fire, or maybe poison the enemies, add

like a poisoning effect into the web so

when it touches the enemies or penetrates

them, they get poisoned. Or you could kind

of like mind control them, or I don't

know, explosive webs. When he slings the

webs, they just kind of explode on impact.

Would be really cool. I want to see more

brutal and realistic violent gameplay. I

want to see Mortal Kombat-style fatalities

and brutalities. For example, imagine you

attach the web onto the enemy and you

swing them around slam them into a car,

or like an oncoming car, or a building,

or the pavement, or the ground, and

there's like this bone-shattering sound

and the arms break and all this blood just

squirts out and like a big puddle of blood

splatters all over the place. That'd be so

amazing and so cool and would be so much

more interesting. Or what if you could

like shoot out spiked spears of webs?

So he can shoot out webs as like web

bullets. Why doesn't he make them sharp

and pointed so they like stab into the

enemy and pin them against against walls

or objects or cars like a massive nail

gun, and then they just bleed out of it.

That would be so funny. And also, I don't

like this story. I don't like this whole

more— Miles Morales, whatever his stupid

name is, teaming up with Peter Parker.

For me, who grew up in the '90s— I was a

'90s kid watching Peter Parker as

Spider-Man— I will never accept anyone

else being Peter Parker or Spider-Man.

If it's not Peter Parker, then he's not

Spider-Man. I don't care about this stupid

multiverse. I hate the whole multiverse

storyline so much, where there's like a—

there's like a billion different

multiverses with a billion different

possibilities of Spider-Men and all

different people. It's so lame. What is

the point of this stupid storyline where

there's like unlimited amount of universes

and they can all jump in between different

universes and team up? Like the latest

Spider-Man movie where Andrew Garfield

and— what's the original Peter Parker guy

called? I forgot his name. Tobey Maguire.

Yeah, Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and

the new guy Tom Holland, they will team

up. I thought that was so lame as a

storyline. I really hate this multiverse

thing and I wish it would come to an end.

And it's not— it's just not an interesting

plot device. So unfortunately, I don't

think I can recommend this Spider-Man

game. I have to give it a 6.2 out of 10.

It's kind of a mediocre attempt at a

Spider-Man game and I cannot recommend it

for those reasons.