Insomniac's Spider-Man redesign is one of the best going, and one that's sure to influence further incarnations of the wall-crawler further down the line.
The white spider is bold, and the athletic look of the costume itself provides a modern uplift to Ditko's eternal concept. The narrative basis behind its design is refreshing, the eyes are super expressive and the look in general is just superb. The only thing that's missing are some good old fashioned web-wings, but even that's just a minor gripe in what's otherwise a superb update to the classic Spidey costume.
This will be the image fans think of whenever someone mentions Spider-Man in the gaming medium, and while it's not the biggest achievement the PS4 exclusive has accomplished, it helps intimate just how significant an event it is in the superhero and gaming calendars.
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.
