Spider-Man DLC: 10 Things The City That Never Sleeps Must Include
6. Dual Play-Style Combat With Black Cat
Insomniac
Though there are plenty of reasons to compare Marvel's Spider-Man with Batman: Arkham, combat and stealth isn't really one of them. While yes, the wall-crawler possesses an abundance of interchangeable quick-fire gadgets and an instant takedown button taken straight from Rocksteady's seminal series, the emphasis on speed, movement and verticality trumps Arkham's combat by throwing a whole host of variables into the mix.
One area where it is yet to match Arkham, however, relates to that series' dual play feature from Arkham Knight. It allowed players to have Batman and Robin team up and take down a room full of thugs together, and while Insomniac couldn't really copy this feature tit for tat, a version of dual play that enabled players to actually fight as Black Cat would be fantastic.
Spidey should still be the lead of course, but Felicia is a fantastic character and one players should get to play as in the DLC. The redesign is brilliant, and with the back and forth between the pair set to be an obvious highlight, Insomniac are starting off Spidey's post-release content with a bang.
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.
