Spider-Man PS4: 10 Ways It Owes Its Success To The PS2 Spider-Man 2 Game
7. A Fun Mix Of Comic Book Characters
Rather than senselessly pad things out with a parade of inconsequential and poorly developed antagonists and needless cameos from the wider Marvel canon (this is more of a shot at Amazing Spider-Man 2 than anything, but hey), Spider-Man 2 cherry picked only a few to enhance the narrative already being told around Spidey and Doc Ock.
Shocker and Mysterio are decidedly lower on the totem pole of villains than Otto is, and help keep things lively whilst building to the Big Bad without every eclipsing him.
Black Cat makes the biggest splash of the bunch; while the movie centered around the idea the Peter Parker couldn't have his own life and be Spider-Man, it never really gave any thought to him giving up being Peter Parker, focusing instead on giving him a taste of civilian life. Black Cat's story arc sees the counter argument very much in play, taking up the game's second act and providing the narrative balance the film did not have the space for.
PS4 Spider-Man would execute the same policy, even keeping Black Cat off to the side for some DLC as she had no place in the story, and giving members of the Sinister Six more shine since they didn't have to share their spotlight. They could easily have crammed Spidey's rogues gallery into side missions a la Batman Arkham, but copying Spider-Man's 2 lighter pallet served things much better.