Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered Review Summary

Web-swinging and combat are excellent with an emotional story, but repetitive side content, boring stealth missions, and a high launch price hold it back.

Web-swinging is extremely satisfying: The web-swinging mechanic is highly praised for its fluidity, speed, and satisfying sense of momentum, with many players enjoying the freedom of swinging around New York City.

Combat is fluid and dynamic: Combat is smooth, fluid, and dynamic, offering a variety of moves, gadgets, and combos that make it both spectacular and strategic, allowing for creative and satisfying battles.

Story is emotional and well-written: The story is emotional and well-written, with strong character development that leads to impactful and tear-jerking moments, particularly noted in the last third of the game.

Diverse and engaging missions: The game offers a wide variety of main and side missions with different styles, keeping the open world alive and interesting with plenty of activities and collectibles.

Stunning graphics and performance: Graphics are stunning and beautiful, running smoothly at high framerates, making the remastered version look incredible even years after its original release.

Repetitive side content: Many players find the side activities, missions, and open-world tasks repetitive and grindy, often comparing them to Ubisoft-style filler. This includes repetitive crime events and side quests that feel forced for upgrades.

Boring stealth missions: Stealth missions with Mary Jane and Miles are widely criticized as boring, tedious, and breaking the game's rhythm. Mary Jane is also described as an annoying and unlikable character.

Overpriced at launch: The game is considered overpriced at full price, with many recommending to wait for a sale. Some feel it is too short to justify the cost.

Poor ray tracing optimization: Ray tracing is poorly optimized, causing low frame rates and crashes when enabled by default. This significantly impacts performance.

Unpopular Peter face change: The new face model for Peter in the remaster is disliked for looking too young and emotionless, jarring original players.

Addictive Web-Swinging Traversal: The web-swinging traversal is a core and highly praised mechanic, offering realistic physics, momentum, and tricks. Players find it addictive, smooth, and immersive, making movement across New York a standout feature.

Dynamic and Gadget-Rich Combat: Players enjoy a dynamic combat system that combines acrobatic moves, gadgets (like web shooters), and special abilities. The combat is fluid with combos, dodging, and finishing moves, offering variety and depth.

Engaging Side Missions and Activities: The game features a variety of side missions and open-world activities, including crime interventions, collectibles, and character-driven quests. These add depth and replayability beyond the main story.

Immersive Open-World New York: Set in a vibrant, detailed open-world version of New York City, players enjoy exploring and traversing the city. The world is filled with activities and feels alive, enhancing the superhero fantasy.

Combat Compared to Batman Arkham: Many reviewers compare the combat to the Batman: Arkham series, noting a similar rhythmic and combo-based system. However, they emphasize that it's adapted for Spider-Man with faster, more acrobatic movements and web-based attacks.

Good PC optimization: Overall PC optimization is good, with smooth performance on mid-range and low-end PCs, stable framerates, no lags or crashes, and improved graphics.

Ray tracing performance issues: Ray tracing causes severe frame rate drops, crashes, and requires manual disabling. Many players report FPS below 60 and poor optimization.

High FPS without ray tracing: Without ray tracing, the game can run at 200+ FPS on high settings at 4K, and runs smoothly at 60fps on high settings with ray tracing off.

Supports modern features: The game supports ray tracing, DLSS, DLAA, AMD FSR 2.0, and ultrawide monitors.

Steam Deck performance: Steam Deck runs well with 30+ FPS depending on settings, and performance is flawless.

Essential for Spider-Man fans: The game is repeatedly praised as a must-play for fans of Spider-Man, Marvel, and superheroes. It is considered one of the best Spider-Man adaptations, offering an authentic experience that appeals to both fans and newcomers.

Top-tier game for all: Many reviewers give the game a perfect 10/10 rating, calling it one of the best games ever made. It is highly recommended to everyone, regardless of their familiarity with Spider-Man.

Worth full price: Players strongly advise purchasing the game without hesitation, stating it is worth the full price. It is described as a must-have that provides excellent value for money.

Great open-world action: The game is recommended for fans of open-world games due to its fluid action and solid narrative. It offers a safe purchase for those who enjoy exploring a detailed city.

Immersive Spider-Man feel: The game makes players feel like Spider-Man, with immersive web-swinging and combat. Even non-fans may become fans after playing.

Community fair range: $15.00 - $30.00.

Game completion: 45.0h.

Story completion: 12.0h.

Session length: 4.0h.

Endgame: 10.0h.

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered has a slow start with a learning curve and repetitive early content, but becomes highly engaging after a few hours as players master movement and unlock abilities.

Friction: stealth missions with MJ and Miles; repetitive side content; tedious open world tasks; learning curve for controls and movement; slow beginning and boring first hours; performance issues at start.

Web-Swinging Enthusiast: Spends most time swinging between buildings, exploring the city, and avoiding fast travel to maximize traversal enjoyment. Motivation: The sheer joy and satisfaction of web-swinging traversal. Stance: buy.

Story-Driven Fan: Focuses on main story missions, reads collectible lore, and appreciates character development and emotional beats. Motivation: Experiencing a compelling, emotional Spider-Man narrative. Stance: buy.

Completionist / Achievement Hunter: Systematically completes all side activities, collectibles, and challenges; may replay on higher difficulty to unlock all achievements. Motivation: Achieving 100% completion and unlocking all achievements. Stance: buy.

The game runs well on most hardware configurations, but crashes are a recurring issue for some players, especially on higher-end systems.

Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAM: positive. Most players report good performance with occasional minor freezes or stutters.

Windows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAM: positive. Majority find performance good, though some experience crashes.

Windows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAM: positive. Generally runs well, but a subset reports frequent crashes.

Steam Deck: The game suffers from frequent crashes, black screen freezes, and control inaccuracies on Steam Deck, despite some users reporting acceptable performance. The prevalence of stability issues places it in the 'Broken' category.

Linux and Proton: The game runs well on Linux/Proton for the majority of users, with only occasional bugs or crashes reported. A specific hardware limitation with older Nvidia cards exists, but overall the experience is positive and requires no major tweaks. The lack of a native Linux port is noted but does not prevent play.

Monetization: The game is a single-player title with optional DLC expansions. User feedback focuses on base price, DLC value, and technical bugs. The only mention of microtransactions is a positive note that they are ignorable. There is no evidence of pay-to-win, gacha, loot boxes, or aggressive monetization. The monetization model is fair and non-predatory.

External guides: The primary complaint is a technical bug (second monitor signal loss), which falls under Tier 4 'The Tourist' (Spatial Data/Bugs). No evidence of higher-tier dependencies like farming, inventory, or instructional needs.

Edge web shooting mod: Players want a mod that allows shooting webs from edges, which would enhance traversal and combat options.