Past open-world Spidey titles have always featured some sort of vehicle combat, but nothing as nuanced as what's been shown off in Insomniac's title.
Flashback ten years ago, and the equivalent would've been jumping onto the vehicle question and pummelling its engine until you had to dodge a gunshot. Now? Spidey can thwip from car to car, kicking drivers out of their seats and scaling seamlessly from one part of a car to the next. It's by far the most exciting gameplay feature of Insomniac's new title, and while there are countless other gameplay features to speak of, taking to the streets and dismantling some villainous vehicles is really quite exciting.
No word on how those interior segments will factor into the open-world more generally (at the moment they seem to get unlocked in linear segments), but if this kind of seamless gameplay can be integrated with that, then this could just be the most immersive comic book locale we've seen yet.
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.
