Marvel's Spider-man 2 Hands On Preview
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00:00I'm with Sam and she's played Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and it looks absolutely amazing.
00:11The symbiote powers in particular look like a lot of fun.
00:14They are really fun and they're quite OP but they are all on timers.
00:18So there's one that's like you kind of turn into like a sea urchin and all these spikes
00:21come out and like you can upgrade that so you get more spikes.
00:24There's another one that uses like octopus-y arms to grab loads of enemies and then like
00:27slam them on the ground and they're all really big so they make like a really nice impact
00:32when you're like you know doing all your combos and kicking and punching and stuff.
00:35They're a really nice way of like there seems to be a lot more enemies this time around
00:39to kind of compensate for the fact that you can take out like 10 enemies at once.
00:43So it's like it's much more chaotic at least with the with the combat that I've experienced
00:47even on a side quest and things like that.
00:49So it's yeah they're dramatic let's say that.
00:52So keeping with the comic accurate storyline as well Peter's got angry.
00:57Poor boy.
00:58Yeah I mean again I'm not sure like how he gets his symbiote powers or what the backstory
01:02was like than the bit I played he already had though so it was kind of like oh what's
01:07what's going on here but it's quite interesting watching his friends react they're like what's
01:12what's what's you know Peter seems a bit odd and like obviously a lot of the game is about
01:17Peter's relationship with his best friend Harry and like at one point like Peter Parker
01:22like uses one of the symbiote powers and he's like damn that feels good.
01:25There are also stealth missions are back but they look way more improved from previous
01:30games.
01:31Yeah I think like it's really lent into the kind of Batman Arkham kind of history in that
01:35like there are some missions where you play as Mars's spider bot again which is really
01:40good like they seem much more kind of in depth and you have much more freedom as to how you
01:45kind of want to use use the various tools that the little spider guy has but then actually
01:50when you're playing as Mars you can use you can make your own web tightropes I guess like
01:56it feels like you are much more of a spider-man in that sense because like you could be watching
02:00down below and see where people are kind of patrolling and be like oh actually I need
02:03to get over there so I can drop down on these people and by the time I finished the whole
02:07roof was covered in these web lines because I was just like well anything over there now
02:11this person's going to be over there.
02:12If any of the enemies looked up they'd go I think spider-man's here.
02:15Yeah I feel like I wasn't that like yeah all they needed to do was look up and be like
02:19what looks amazing is some of the big boss fights again which we've got a lizard boss
02:23fight that you did and it's just it's multi-staged it's huge it's impactful it's complex like
02:29what was that?
02:30It was it was really hard I'm just gonna put it out there if anyone's played the original
02:34two you can use when you see someone glowing red you can use circle to dodge out the way
02:40you can still do that but there's also a new parry mechanic so it kind of flashes yellow
02:43and you have to press L1 to kind of quickly parry it takes a lot of getting used to because
02:48your symbiote powers as peter and your electric base powers as miles are both also mapped
02:53to L1 plus the face buttons because obviously when you're playing as miles as well there's
02:57a lot of electricity flying around and sometimes it's quite easy to miss that parry prompt
03:03and those those attacks really hit you they're like they're the new heavy attacks in the
03:08game so they both basically come from either these boss battles or just heavy enemies that
03:12you find in the world that can like really smash your health if you're not watching.
03:17Yeah this lizard's boss fight kind of made up the climax of our preview event the whole
03:22thing had been leading up to this the doctor who has turned to the lizard has got what
03:28they think is the antidote for what's wrong with harry so they've been tracking him down
03:32obviously this this lizard guy is becoming more lizardy with every passing moment and
03:36it's yeah a three stage battle you had to constantly keep moving and like keep the pace
03:41up and yeah they definitely delved into the drama of these boss battles that the original
03:47games are famed for and there's sort of elements of chase in there as well and yeah it's really
03:53good.
03:54So between the three characters as well how does it work with like say levelling up and
03:57like say gadgets because you've got symbiote powers which are very different to miles's
04:00ones and everybody has different and peter can now fly.
04:04So like because they're kind of bringing all of the the areas of new york and manhattan
04:08together and because of that there's a lot more like open areas of like water or parkland
04:13or like lots of low buildings they had to kind of introduce a mechanic that made traversal
04:18feel much more fun yeah you'll be swinging instead of i'm losing momentum and there's
04:22not a kind of a skyscraper nearby and you can kind of fly and then there's these wind
04:26tunnels that you can kind of use or like you can use to push yourself up into the air as
04:29well so i didn't think they could make moving around a spider man feel better but somehow
04:34they are both spider-men level up as you play as them so i guess you don't need to kind
04:38of use each one equally to get the same skill points but you can use those ability points
04:44to either upgrade or unlock abilities for both of them that they share or you can level
04:50them up separately obviously to like dial into the symbiote powers or the or miles's
04:54like electric but then also there's the gadget which seem to be shared as far as i could
04:58tell um but yes a lot there's a lot going on but it's nice that unlocking you into i
05:03guarantee you that there are going to be story points where you i'm sorry but you're going
05:06to have to play but there's a nice where you're like no i like i'm going to go find
05:09all the objectives as miles and get some xp with that and the side quests and stuff it's
05:13like okay great you're going to find your preferences aren't you about like oh i want
05:16to use this person in this situation or for this side mission it feels like it'll be easier
05:19to have the symbiote powers at least you're not like oh i've used peter way too much so
05:23he's like really overpowered and i haven't used miles much it seems like it's much more
05:27like you're free to kind of switch around and you're not going to be penalized for that
05:31by the sounds of it so it's good um one area that miles is definitely seems to be winning
05:36from the footage that we've got um over peter is clothes and customization because miles
05:41is wearing some amazing looking sneakers um and peter's got some options as well but you
05:46got to see a bunch of other like outfits that they have and there's a lot of customization
05:50going on there as well oh my god yeah i think brian interheart the creative director or
05:54game director said uh there are 65 outputs to unlock but there's also styles now and
06:00there's over 200 of them which kind of change the um the color scheme and like like tweaks
06:05to each of the outfits so there's yeah there's there's a lot as long as they have the cat
06:10backpack oh my god i know i don't care i should have asked them that i didn't even i just
06:14like he's gonna be in there how could it not be spiderman he's he's spiderman i want the
06:19one with the little window the little bubble window so just generally like i haven't actually
06:23asked you this but i get the feeling that people could assume from the way that you're
06:26talking about it so enthusiastically you enjoy playing it it's it's good yeah it's
06:30good and it definitely i mean it looks absolutely stunning as you'd as you'd hope from these
06:35games i just can't wait to kind of like see what the idle animations are because like
06:40yeah like in the overworld you can switch between the two characters i see what they
06:43get up to when you're not playing as them like yeah um what was interesting they did
06:47say that they won't when you switch them they won't be just in like their normal clothes
06:51or like at school they'll always be like ready to ready to swing so that was quite interesting
06:55like so when's it out it's out october 20th exclusively on ps5 um and yeah it is really
07:02fun like if you're a fan of marvel spider-man one or miles morales like it is the bringing
07:06together of all of this stuff and i'm loving the interplay especially like through the
07:10dialogue of their relationship as well they're trying to learn you know learning how to be
07:13best friends as well and but there's also mj and actually you know what is really interesting
07:18is that all of all of their family and friends know that they're spider-man it's quite rare
07:24like especially in you know the movies and other games it's like there's no secret identity
07:30here for for these characters and their family like miles his mom knows that he's spider-man
07:36and like mj and his friends know and aunt may obviously did know and it's just it's
07:43interesting seeing them kind of deal with that fact that their friends and family know
07:49that they are living this double life yeah being able to talk about that feels like a
07:52really interesting dynamic and obviously like the stories in these games are always
07:56really well written and well crafted so i'm as much as excited as that kind of stuff as
08:02i am how good this game feels to play and how good the combat feels even if i am shit
08:07at the parrying but maybe that's just me i'm sure you can get an upgrade that makes it
08:11easier yeah autopilot anyway looking forward to the cat backpack yeah
08:20my final heart