Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 is a game that surpasses the adjectives that are commonly part of the Source Material's titles, such as Amazing, Spectacular, Superior, and Ultimate. The development team at Insomniac have taken leaps and bounds to greatly improve on Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Morales in both the combat and traversal mechanics, adding such new features as Symbiote Combat to make Peter feel just as strong as Miles, while also not feeling completely game-breaking. Speaking of which, the game does something unimaginable: it doesn't nerf both heroes and villains. You can identify the power scaling. As for the story, it is incredibly emotional. You will be stabbed in the chest with the writing, with the voice acting wedging the blade deeper and deeper. Yuri Lowenthal does an outstanding job playing Peter, and properly conveys the emotion that when the Symbiote slowly starts to take control, he becomes more irritable, more emotionally volatile, and more dangerous. Tony Todd was great casting for the Lethal Symbiote. The rest of the cast are just as spectacular.
If anyone at Insomniac Games is by chance reading this, thank you for giving us such great Spider-Man art for years to come. I cannot wait to see what you do with the presumably final installment of the Spider-Man games, and just know you will pull off the Wolverine game we (at time of this review being written October 2023) know very little about.
