E3 2018: Everything We Learned From Sony's Spider-Man Demo
4. Suit Powers
Insomniac
Tying into earlier talk of the many suits in the game having different abilities, the open-world demo showed the default suit's special power.
By pressing L3 and R3 together, players can trigger a special ability where Spidey produces an extra powerful attack; in the default suit's case it's a 360 degree rapid fire web ability that incapacitates all enemies in a given area, and though Insomniac have remained tight-lipped as to what other abilities could appear, it's fair to say that this one is a good starting point.
Also shown off were the game's special takedowns, where players can trigger an instant takedown of sorts by pressing circle and triangle together. Sound familiar? It's the same combination that triggered a similar move in Batman: Arkham - not that anyone should complain about that, of course.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
