As was noted in our review of The Heist, one can't help but feel as though it was the wrong decision to release these DLCs in an episodic format, as opposed to just one big content dump in December.
Currently, the story for each episode clocks in at around two hours. Additional side-content brings that number up to around three or four, but still, it's not particularly brilliant when each episode sets players back $9.99 respectively. The season pass - which includes all three episodes - brings this figure down to $24.99 (although the PSN's Black Friday sale is currently on), but currently, The City That Never Sleeps just doesn't feel like value for money.
There's also the added frustration of those month-long intervals making the overarching narrative feel just a little bit disjointed. Turf Wars opens with a recap on The Heist, but Black Cat is scarcely mentioned by Peter in the story and her "death" feels glossed-over, with the final confrontation with Hammerhead lacking any of the emotional weight you imagine it would, given Hardy was once very close to Pete.
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.
