10 Reasons Spider-Man Is The PS4's Best Exclusive

Sony’s PS4 exclusives are very hit-and-miss when it comes to gameplay. The likes of God of War and Bloodborne are deep games with varied combat mechanics and enemies that require a plethora of strategies to overcome. Others, such as Uncharted 4 and Detroit: Become Human, have controls and gameplay mechanics that take a back seat to storytelling. This is by no means to their detriment, but there is definitely a divide between exclusives that can take hours upon hours to master, and those that can be understood within minutes.

Enter Spider-Man; a game that strikes a satisfying balance between pick-up-and-play intuition, and deeper, more nuanced elements. The traversal and combat mechanics, perhaps the two core pillars of Spider-Man’s gameplay, are prime examples of this harmony between satisfying ease and skilful challenge.

A new player can pick up the controller and swing through New York and wail on street thugs with relative ease. But, by the time a player has spent a few hours with the game, they’ll be able to fly through Manhattan with grace and speed aided by unlock-able skills, and dominate any combat encounter with a host of late-game gadgets and abilities.

A rare game that rewards and caters to casual and committed players alike, Spider-Man is possibly one of the PS4's most accessible games to date.