E3 2018: Everything We Learned From Sony's Spider-Man Demo
2. Crooks On Rooftops Should Probably Be Weary...
Insomniac
Superhero games, rooftops and gravity - put together, these things have experienced something of a fraught relationship. Rocksteady's Batman games (this is the last comparison, promise) got around the issue by tethering thugs to ledges and gargoyles as they fell, so players couldn't break the character's one rule. Insomniac's Spider-Man, on the other hand, has taken no such precautions; thugs are free to fall to their deaths as and when they please.
While there's a lot to be said about maintaining the flow of combat and how rooftop fighting could be derailed by forcing the player to save pavement-bound crooks, it's anything if not slightly egregious to see Spidey punting them off a sixty story building.
Who knows - this could all change by the time the game releases this September. For now, however, it looks as though the wall-crawler is very much capable of launching Kingpin's underlings onto the streets below - accident or otherwise.
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.
