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

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3. Insomniac's Storytelling Continues To Be Top-Notch

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Just as Insomniac's narrative team knocked it out of the park when it came to the main game's story, they've done so again here. Whereas The Heist drew most of its strength from the dynamic shared between Spider-Man and Black Cat, Turf Wars instead draws from the relationship between the wall-crawler and Yuri Watanabe, who took on a supporting role in the main game. Yuri gets plenty to do, and easily emerges as the DLC's most compelling figure by the time the credits start to roll.

But first, a quick retrospective; Turf Wars picks up shortly after The Heist, with Felicia Hardy's fate still unknown, and with New York's Maggia crime families engaged in all-out warfare on the city's streets. At the centre of the carnage is Hammerhead, who is looking to consolidate his grip on NYC's criminal underworld with a whole new arsenal of stolen Sable tech, with Black Cat having scuppered his attempts to blackmail his rivals into submission.

Spider-Man did, of course, venture into dark territory in its main story, but things get even more sinister here. Hammerhead is a truly ruthless adversary, and seeing Spidey take on the mob serves as a nice counterweight to the more fantastical nature of the main game's plot.

Characters do, however, get left behind in the wake of Hammerhead's carnage. MJ is restricted to a few brief phone calls, as is Miles, but the story remains captivating all the same.

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