Spider-Man PS4: 10 Things It Must Learn From Batman Arkham

5. Get Bosses Right

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Though the Arkham series was revered for a whole host of reasons, its boss battles definitely were not one.

Apart from Mister Freeze in Arkham City and Killer Croc in Asylum, Rocksteady never seemed to be able to nail their most climactic battles. Warner Bros. Montreal did better in Arkham Origins with both Deathstroke and Bane providing real threat, but lessons were clearly not learned by the time Arkham Knight came around, with Slade Wilson in particular falling victim to a horrendous 'tank boss' that teased a hand-to-hand confrontation, only to end it with a brief cutscene instead.

Spider-Man, like Batman, possesses one of the greatest rogues' galleries in all of comic book-dom. Characters like Kingpin, Venom, Doctor Octopus and Sandman have all featured in some tremendously memorable video game battles over the years, and with the power of the PS4 affording these characters even more potential in terms of what can actually be achieved in battle, Insomniac have to make them a priority.

There are few characters, arguably, able to boast as diverse an array of villains as the wall-crawler. Making them memorable shouldn't be too difficult.

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