Spider-Man PS4 Turf Wars Review: 3 Ups & 4 Downs

Is the latest entry in The City That Never Sleeps worth the money?

by Ewan Paterson
Spider-Man PS4 Turf Wars
Insomniac

There's no denying that Insomniac Games' Spider-Man is a game of the year contender, or that it is probably one of the finest comic book video games ever to release. The studio illustrated an immense understanding of the Marvel mythos back in September (we called it a "pure, wonderful, affecting love letter" to the wall-crawler in our review), but their first wave of post-release content for Spider-Man - titled, the City That Never Sleeps - is unfortunately struggling to recapture the same magic of the main release.

The first entry, The Heist, positioned a new version of Black Cat in a starring role and, despite a strong story and some interesting features, fell short in several areas. That's partly what makes its successor, Turf Wars, such a frustrating piece of content, because it improves on certain aspects of that first piece of DLC while taking several steps backward in the process.

It's very much a mixed bag, but it's not all doom and gloom. There's still plenty of charm to Insomniac's rendition of the Marvel Universe, and though Turf Wars does feel like something of a stop-gap until news comes of a Spider-Man sequel, there's enough in this latest piece of content to satiate even the most fervent of web-heads out there.

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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.