Info about Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered:

Official game description:
Steam Exclusive Offer
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Link your Steam Account to PlayStation™ Network to receive these early unlock bonuses:  
*   Early access to the Resilient Suit  
*   Early access to the powerful Concussive Blast Gadget  
*   Two Skill Points
Link portal can be found on the Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered game menu.
About the Game
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Developed by Insomniac Games in collaboration with Marvel, and optimized for PC by Nixxes Software, Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered on PC introduces an experienced Peter Parker who’s fighting big crime and iconic villains in Marvel’s New York. At the same time, he’s struggling to balance his chaotic personal life and career while the fate of Marvel’s New York rests upon his shoulders.
Key Features
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**Be Greater**  
When iconic Marvel villains threaten Marvel’s New York, Peter Parker and Spider-Man’s worlds collide. To save the city and those he loves, he must rise up and be greater.  
**Feel like Spider-Man**  
After eight years behind the mask, Peter Parker is a crime-fighting master. Feel the full power of a more experienced Spider-Man with improvisational combat, dynamic acrobatics, fluid urban traversal and environmental interactions.  
**Worlds collide**  
The worlds of Peter Parker and Spider-Man collide in an original action-packed story. In this new Spider-Man universe, iconic characters from Peter and Spider-Man’s lives have been reimagined, placing familiar characters in unique roles.  
**Marvel’s New York is your playground**  
The Big Apple comes to life in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Swing through vibrant neighborhoods and catch breathtaking views of iconic Marvel and Manhattan landmarks. Use the environment to defeat villains with epic takedowns in true blockbuster action.  
**Enjoy The City That Never Sleeps complete content**  
Following the events of the main story of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, experience the continuation of Peter Parker’s journey in Marvel’s Spider-Man: The City That Never Sleeps, three story chapters with additional missions and challenges to discover.
PC Features
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**PC Optimized Graphics**  
Enjoy a variety of graphics quality options to tailor to a wide range of devices, unlocked framerates, and support for other technologies including performance boosting NVIDIA DLSS and image quality enhancing NVIDIA DLAA. Upscaling technology AMD FSR 2.0 is also supported.  
**Ray-traced reflections and improved shadows\***  
See the city come to life with improved shadows and stunning ray-traced reflection options with a variety of quality modes to choose from.  
**Ultra-wide Monitor support\*\***  
Take in the cinematic sights of Marvel’s New York with support for a range of screen setups, including 16:9, 16:10, 21:9, 32:9, and 48:9 resolutions with triple monitor setups using NVIDIA Surround or AMD Eyefinity.  
**Controls and Customization**  
Feel what it’s like to play as Spider-Man through immersive haptic feedback and dynamic trigger effects using a PlayStation DualSense™ controller on a wired USB connection. Enjoy full mouse and keyboard support with various customizable control options.  
__\*Compatible PC required  
\*\*Compatible PC and display device required.__

Release date: Aug 12, 2022

Categories: Open-World Exploration, Action-adventure, Superhero, Story-driven Gameplay, Character Customization, Stealth Gameplay, Combat, Traversal-focused Gameplay

Feature scans:
- MTX: score 10; verdict: Fair / Pure; summary: 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.
- Wiki: score 10; verdict: The Tourist; summary: 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.
- Proton/Linux: score 15; verdict: Works Well; summary: 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.
- Steam Deck: score 75; verdict: Broken - Frequent Crashes and Control Issues; summary: 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.

- Hardware Profile:
  - Summary: The game runs well on most hardware configurations, but crashes are a recurring issue for some players, especially on higher-end systems.
  - Sample size: 984 (4% coverage)
  - Audience skew: Review sample is mostly Windows-based.
  - Windows <8GB VRAM / <16GB RAM (positive, 293 reports): Most players report good performance with occasional minor freezes or stutters.
  - Windows <8GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAM (positive, 177 reports): Majority find performance good, though some experience crashes.
  - Windows 12-15GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAM (positive, 153 reports): Generally runs well, but a subset reports frequent crashes.
  - Windows 8-11GB VRAM / 16-31GB RAM (positive, 137 reports): Many players enjoy the game but report frequent crashes.
  - Windows 16GB+ VRAM (positive, 53 reports): Performance is generally good, but crashes are a common complaint.
  - Windows 8-11GB VRAM / <16GB RAM (positive, 45 reports): Players report good performance with some optimization notes.
  - Caveats: 984 of 22231 reviews expose hardware metadata.; Review sample is mostly Windows-based.
Feature extractions:
- Community Price:
  - Community fair range: $15.00 - $30.00
  - Reasoning: The majority of reviews indicate that the game is enjoyable but overpriced at its full retail price (likely $60). Many recommend waiting for a sale, with specific price points mentioned between $15 and $30 USD (e.g., 100 BRL, 200 CNY, 20 EUR). These figures represent what the community considers a fair price for the base game, balancing its quality, age, and repetitive content.
- Playtime Metrics:
  - Game completion: 45.0h
  - Story completion: 12.0h
  - Session length: 4.0h
  - Endgame: 10.0h
  - Reasoning: Game completion: Multiple reviews report 40-66.9 hours for 100% completion; 45 hours is a typical midpoint. Story/campaign completion: Several reviews state main story alone takes 10-15 hours; 12 hours is a common estimate. Session length: One review notes that a planned 1-hour session often extends to 4-5 hours, and many mention spending hours web-swinging; 4 hours is a representative typical session. Endgame: DLCs are consistently described as adding about 10-11 hours of post-story content; 10 hours is the typical endgame duration.
- Time-to-fun:
  - Summary: 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.
  - Stance: Clicks after
  - Anchor: After mastering movement and unlocking skills
  - Time to anchor: N/A
  - 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
  - Unlock drivers: getting used to controls; unlocking more skills and gadgets; story progression picking up; learning movement mechanics
  - Conditions: being a Spider-Man fan; playing with friends or listening to music; enjoying open-world exploration
- Player Archetypes:
  - Web-Swinging Enthusiast (buy)
    - Motivation: The sheer joy and satisfaction of web-swinging traversal
    - Playstyle: Spends most time swinging between buildings, exploring the city, and avoiding fast travel to maximize traversal enjoyment.
    - Experience: familiar
    - Purchase stance: buy
    - Labels: traversal lover; spider-fan; movement enthusiast
    - Reference games: Spider-Man 2 (PS2); Batman Arkham series
  - Story-Driven Fan (buy)
    - Motivation: Experiencing a compelling, emotional Spider-Man narrative
    - Playstyle: Focuses on main story missions, reads collectible lore, and appreciates character development and emotional beats.
    - Experience: mixed
    - Purchase stance: buy
    - Labels: Marvel fan; story gamer; Spider-Man fan
    - Reference games: Batman Arkham series; Other PlayStation exclusives
  - Completionist / Achievement Hunter (buy)
    - Motivation: Achieving 100% completion and unlocking all achievements
    - Playstyle: Systematically completes all side activities, collectibles, and challenges; may replay on higher difficulty to unlock all achievements.
    - Experience: veteran
    - Purchase stance: buy
    - Labels: achievement hunter; completionist; platinum chaser
    - Reference games: Batman Arkham series; Other open-world achievement-heavy games
  - Performance-Conscious Gamer (sale)
    - Motivation: Getting a polished experience at a fair price
    - Playstyle: May tweak settings, use mods, and avoid bugs; plays through main story and some side content, often waiting for discounts.
    - Experience: familiar
    - Purchase stance: sale
    - Labels: PC gamer; performance enthusiast; value seeker
    - Reference games: Horizon Zero Dawn; God of War (PC port)


Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category.
Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews.
What players like:
- Web-swinging is extremely satisfying (weight 0.97): 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 (weight 0.85): 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 (weight 0.68): 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 (weight 0.32): 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 (weight 0.3): Graphics are stunning and beautiful, running smoothly at high framerates, making the remastered version look incredible even years after its original release.
- Beautiful and lively New York (weight 0.3): The depiction of New York City is beautiful and feels alive with its own rhythm, featuring faithful details, crime events, and scenic views that enhance exploration.
- Strong character development (weight 0.27): Character development is excellent, with a strong focus on well-written characters that evolve, contributing to a compelling and mature story with emotional depth.
- Excellent Spider-Man adaptation (weight 0.26): This game is considered one of the best Spider-Man adaptations, capturing the fantasy and essence of the character exceptionally well, often rated as a top Spider-Man game.
- Top-notch voice acting (weight 0.23): Voice acting and facial animations are top-tier, enhancing immersion and bringing characters to life with terrific performances.
- Relatable portrayal of Peter Parker (weight 0.22): Peter Parker is portrayed as a relatable and human character, with his struggles and personality captured authentically, making him charismatic and mature.

Common complaints:
- Repetitive side content (weight 0.57): 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 (weight 0.39): 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 (weight 0.2): 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 (weight 0.13): Ray tracing is poorly optimized, causing low frame rates and crashes when enabled by default. This significantly impacts performance.
- Unpopular Peter face change (weight 0.13): The new face model for Peter in the remaster is disliked for looking too young and emotionless, jarring original players.
- Frustrating Screwball challenges (weight 0.13): Screwball challenges are frequently mentioned as annoying, frustrating, and overly difficult, detracting from the experience.
- Weak DLC story (weight 0.1): The DLC story is considered weak and tedious, with only the Cat content receiving some praise.
- Unrealistic character moments (weight 0.09): Cutscenes showing Silver Sable defeating Spider-Man or MJ beating trained agents are seen as unrealistic and immersion-breaking.

Gameplay feedback:
- Addictive Web-Swinging Traversal (weight 0.93): 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 (weight 0.65): 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 (weight 0.39): 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 (weight 0.35): 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 (weight 0.35): 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.
- Customizable Suits and Abilities (weight 0.29): Players can unlock and customize various suits, each with unique abilities and powers. This system allows for personalization and strategic choices, adding depth to progression.
- Compelling Story-Driven Narrative (weight 0.16): The game is praised for its strong, character-driven narrative that keeps players engaged. The story is a central focus, with emotional moments and a satisfying arc.
- Diverse Enemy Types (weight 0.1): Enemy variety is noted, with different factions and unit types like snipers and brutes. This diversity keeps combat encounters fresh and requires strategic use of gadgets and abilities.
- Adjustable Difficulty Levels (weight 0.09): The game offers multiple difficulty levels that can be adjusted, catering to different player skill levels. This allows both casual and hardcore players to enjoy the experience.
- DLC Content with New Suits and Quests (weight 0.09): The game includes DLC expansions that add new suits and side quests, extending the gameplay experience. Players appreciate additional content that builds on the main game.

Performance notes:
- Good PC optimization (weight 0.52): 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 (weight 0.21): 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 (weight 0.16): 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 (weight 0.1): The game supports ray tracing, DLSS, DLAA, AMD FSR 2.0, and ultrawide monitors.
- Steam Deck performance (weight 0.1): Steam Deck runs well with 30+ FPS depending on settings, and performance is flawless.
- RTX and reflection issues (weight 0.07): Reflections and RTX issues, including RT reflections and DLSS problems.
- Unlocked frame rate (weight 0.06): The game has an unlocked frame rate, allowing for higher FPS.
- Enhanced textures (weight 0.06): Enhanced and realistic textures improve visual quality.

Recommendations:
- Essential for Spider-Man fans (weight 0.83): 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 (weight 0.5): 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 (weight 0.5): 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 (weight 0.2): 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 (weight 0.1): The game makes players feel like Spider-Man, with immersive web-swinging and combat. Even non-fans may become fans after playing.

Other player notes:
- Edge web shooting mod (weight 0.04): Players want a mod that allows shooting webs from edges, which would enhance traversal and combat options.

Emotions:
- Satisfaction (weight 0.13): Players feel satisfied because the game delivers exactly what Spider-Man fans expect, from fluid web-swinging to a compelling story and intuitive combat. The progression system with its skill tree and unlocks, balanced puzzles, and optimized performance on modern hardware also contribute to this positive feeling.
- Enjoyment (weight 0.12): Enjoyment stems from the smooth and addictive web-swinging mechanics that provide perfect momentum and speed, paired with extremely fun combat and great graphics. The traversal feels dynamic and natural, making the entire experience fantastic and highly recommended.
- Excitement (weight 0.1): The thrill of controlling Spider-Man, swinging between buildings, and performing acrobatic tricks generates excitement. Web-swinging mechanics are described as fluid, fast, and immersive, with combat evolving through gadgets and stealth, and the story being excellent.
- Nostalgia (weight 0.08): Nostalgia is evoked by the classic movie suit from the Tobey Maguire era, the soundtrack reminiscent of the PS2 Spider-Man 2 game, and the overall return to the Spider-Man universe after childhood. Players appreciate how the game revives fond memories despite sequels existing.
- Frustration (weight 0.08): Frustration arises from technical issues like softlocks that erase hours of progress, low frame rates at 20 fps, and the auto-aim from the PlayStation port causing targeting problems. Repetitive open-world content, such as backpack collecting, and annoying characters like MJ intensify the frustration.
- Annoyance (weight 0.08): Annoyance is caused by forced stealth missions with Miles and Mary Jane that break the gameplay rhythm, described as momentum killers. Tedious base cleans in the third DLC and repetitive dialogue from Spider-Man when failing missions also contribute to this irritation.
- Admiration (weight 0.04): The game earns admiration for its beautiful remastered graphics, near-instant loading, impressive suits, and camera work. Players also praise Peter Parker's strength and humanity, and feel the game is perfect with everything they wanted.
- Joy (weight 0.04): Joy comes from fulfilling the dream of playing the game, with beautiful and fun web-swinging through a lively New York City. Incredible dialogues and immersion further enhance this happy feeling.
- Boredom (weight 0.04): Boredom sets in due to repetitive side activities that become tedious if left for later, and because the story and combat lack impact, sometimes prompting the player to multitask like opening TikTok during dramatic scenes.
- Emotional engagement (weight 0.04): The game triggers emotional engagement through its heart-wrenching storytelling that genuinely catches players. The emotional weight of a mature Peter Parker adds depth to the narrative.
- Fun (weight 0.02): The game is simply described as very fun, indicating a broad sense of enjoyment from the overall experience.
- Slight regret (weight 0.02): A slight regret is felt because the game is not worth its full price due to its relatively short length, making some players feel the purchase was not fully justified.
- Comparison (weight 0.02): While web-swinging is excellent, it is compared unfavorably to Arkham Knight's gliding, which is considered slightly superior, leading to a feeling of comparison.
- Disappointment (weight 0.02): Disappointment emerges when random events ruin the opportunity for a full collection, and because the game overall fails to engage the player enough to complete it.
- Gratitude (weight 0.02): Gratitude is expressed towards Sony for bringing the game to Steam, allowing PC players who do not own consoles to experience the title.
- Love (weight 0.02): Love is declared because the game is one of the first to almost make the player cry, and they loved it from the depths of their heart.
- Exhaustion (weight 0.02): Exhaustion sets in during Act 3, where constant enemy groups and snipers appear every few blocks during traversal, making travel feel draining.
- Relaxation (weight 0.02): Relaxation is achieved through the freedom of swinging around without any objective, which allows the mind to rest and unwind.
- Slight boredom (weight 0.02): Slight boredom occurs because side missions can become monotonous over time, reducing interest in optional content.
- Exhilaration (weight 0.02): Exhilaration comes from the freedom of swinging and performing tricks mid-air, offering an exciting and liberating experience.}