Marvel Spider-Man Ps4 Game Review - Wall Crawlingly Good

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does what ever a spider can? But can he procreate like a spider can? HMMMMMMM? Is he strong? Listen bud, he's got radioactive blood. So does his blood glow? Hmmmm. Can he swing from a thread? Take a look overhead, Hey, there! There goes the Spider-man. In the chill of the night, At the scene of a crime, Like a streak of light he arrives just in time. Well then why is he always late to his work or college or school life huh?, Spiderman, Spiderman, friendly neighbourhood, Spiderman. Wealth and fame, he ignores, action is his reward. Ahem, well with all the crime fighting he does he does not ignore fame he is famous he has been given the key to his city and other things time to time so come on now he does not ignore fame does he? Look out, here comes the Spiderman. Spiderman, Spiderman, friendly neighbourhood, Spiderman

Wealth and fame, he ignores, action is his reward to him, life is a great big bang up, whenever there's a hang up, You'll find the Spiderman!

Alright I got the classic theme song to fill us into the intro for my review, if that don't make you happy, I'm not sure what will.

Anyway, here we are at one of the biggest, long awaited games in recent times and it's selling a shed load and breaking charts left, right and centre with reviews blaring positivity and SPOILER ALERT! My review too will be bursting with positivity for this spectacular, amazing astonishing game. It's a safe bet to expect spoilers so read with caution as great spoilers contain great responsibility. 

I will try to make this as spoiler free as possible!

Right from the start the graphics are photo realistic and just there's so much detail and love put into this game, it's beast and gorgeous to look at on the standard ps4 so i cannot imagine the difference on the ps4 pro.

The score is also lovely it's just like the mcu music it compliments the game so well and when the score kicks off when you are diving from buildings or swinging around it makes you feel like a superhero!

The gameplay - The swinging is perfect no quarrel it's still more or less the same system implemented from Spiderman 2 game which was the webs connect to buildings and you're swing the momentum works like a pendulum which is how he swings aswell more or less. So you know it's perfect, it can be very fast depending on momentum and it's an addiction and so satisfying to swing about through the bustley big apple in the day or night. 

Combat is good and fast and can be expanded upon with the use of our skills and upgrades and gadgets so it can be a bit deeper. I feel the combat could be expanded upon with more moves for example you remember those webbed gloves you could use for extra damage in old spiderman games or that web cocoon move, i loved these two and to see them again be cool but you know they should or could be in the sequel if we will get one anyway. Stealth gameplay is fine perhaps a bit more could be added to that aswell but like i said overall combat is fine. Only sides i am iffy with is the parkour and the wall crawling like it does not always work or when it does it's awkward with awkward inverted controls or camera while wall crawling but hey it's nothing major to worry about. Also after a while i have found the combat gets a bit boring but this is at the point where i have finished the story and am now going through all the crimes in the districts so you know it's not a straight away thing. 

There's Puzzles in this and they are smart but simplistic and i did enjoy doing them and i only struggled on a small handful of them but you can skip them if you want but i did not. 

Photo mode is a blast honestly every few mins or so i seem to be using it and creating screenshots for fun and sharing them with my friends and just the general public in general, i love the mode. Also fun fact the photo's you see here are all from me in photo mode in game. 

There's a lot of costumes to be unlocked and some i love some i don't really care for or use you know but i appreciate the effort and the designs and the powers more or less all the suits come with. My most used is White Spider just because it's original and different but this game i admit has made me love Tom Holland's outfit now. Just looks so good in this game.

The environment as i said is lovely and it's chocka block with side quests, collectables, towers, bases and photo ops to discover and unlock and collect,  for the most part in my play-through i have done the side quests and collectables more than the story. After i collected all bags, towers, black cats, kingpin bases and side quests then i moved onto the next chapter of the story to act 2 and i'd do the same in act 2 more time spent doing side quests than doing the main story it's fun. Side quest in terms of the bases do feel the same and there's not a lot of difference in the bases really so that can get repetitive.

Voice acting is great. Like all the emotion is delivered and these characters don't feel robotic so you know great stuff and they just feel or seem real!

The story is something we have not gotten before, sure the iconic characters old and new are here well some anyway because you can't fit them all in one single game of course. Right from the get go you could tell what you're about to play is something special with Alive blasting from the Warbly Jets it's just an immense start to one hell of an immense experience. This story has elements we all know and expect drama, the unbalanced but relatable life of Peter Parker and the heroics of a superhero of course but it's put on a pedestal to be a worthy competitor to the MCU since it's style is very in keep with that universe but it's not set there it's set in its own. Spidey is full of humor as you could expect also. You do also play as other character in the game which are Mary Jane and Miles Morales and their sections are very stealth based but fine to play the pace only slows down during these bits but the pace is replaced with tension. Not to spoil anything but the final mission and ending broke me, i was an emotional mess with many tears shed. The relationships built between characters is amazing and all feels so realistic and it puts your heart in there you feel for these characters. Also after the credits there's two post credit scenes one made me smile and warm and happy and the other had me wide eyed and ask so many questions. 

Spider-Man is back and back in force with Playstation's greatest if not one of their greatest games and exclusives ever made. This generation of gaming has been stamped Sony because they have slayed the gaming scene with their constant hard hitting exclusive games. 

After completing this game i recommend you all buy the prelude to the game book called Hostile Takeover. 

Thank you Marvel, Sony and Insomniac for bringing us the best spider-man game to date!

Solid 9/10!

BRING ME MORE, I WANT SPIDER-MAAAAAN 2!!!!

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Marvel's Spider-Man Ps4 - Best Of Photo Mode - Comic & Daily Bugle Covers

Here I will be dumping all my photo's well the best ones from the game and there will be spoilers with some images so you have been warned. 

All photo's in this thread are featured on cover of Comic and Daily Bugle frames. 

All photo's captured in game ps4 by myself on Marvel's Sony Insomniac's Spider-Man game. 

Once again SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

Well that's all I have for you with this short but sweet and beautiful photo's from Spider-Man on ps4 with it's amazing photo mode.

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MACHINE Fucking, Fucking, Fucking HEAD!

Fuck! What a gig three times I have seen these incredible metal giants and that's why there's three F's between Machine and Head because it was fucking....fucking.....fucking......HOSTILE!

Start of the night and a low light photo. 

So let's start the day, I get up, I can't come down, the room is spinning round and round and that's Abracadabra but seriously Mr Blue Sky was out in force and it was fucking scorchio. I went on the train and I was all by myself first gig I went alone, well I was not alone I met friend I don't see much of the beast that is Lloyd Newman. We chilled out caught up queued in line outside The Great Hall in Cardiff and waited for the Imperium to let loose.

Met this guy down there who had his appendix out recently called Sam became friends with him, he's a tidy guy so shoutout to him! Met some random people too and drunks that were fist bumping me and Lloyd and they were hugging us and even offering us stuff and we declined everything besides the fist bumps of course because, i'm a reasonable party square who don't need no booze or other things to party. I had the one beer it was rank not had that "Best Larger In The World" in god know how long but i pretty much sweated it out end of the night haha I was a big pile of sweat as ever from a MH gig.

End of night stage photo. 

From the moment MH came on and the pit was about to start for Imperium Lloyd looked at me yelled "PITTTTTTT" and that was the last time i ever saw Lloyd, it was a midsummer's day and I, Morgan Freeman narrated such a tale of the boy who went missing inside the circle pit. Haha but don't worry Lloyd was fine got home safe and was only left bruised from the pit but he will recover!

I was pretty much front row by barricade all night UP UNTIL the last two songs because I felt like i was gonna pass out, I could not breath and i was so dehydrated. I was also pissed off from being squashed, punched and having bodies land on my head that i needed a drink or i for sure was gonna pass out so i spent an extortion amount of money on a bottle of water and i downed it in 0.2.6.1.555.666 seconds of having it, which in layman's terms is a fraction of a nanosecond i believe but i'm making that shit up i don't know how fast i downed it but it was fast. 

There i lay on the floor for old and first time ever at a gig i spewed on the floor, i needed a break, so i was on my knees until the middle of Halo where i then stood back up and sang along and worked my way back to the center before the song ended sadly did not get back to my spot or get a pic or drum stick from the guys but hey 2 years ago i met them i don't give a fuck haha I would have loved to have won the MVR shirt but ah well. I left the building 11am and awaited a pick up from my dad, the legend that he is. Got back to Aberdare and went for a mcdonalds because MAN was i hungry and thirsty!

Only pic I took of the band while they were playing. 

It was the roughest gig i have been to to be honest wont lie. The basic highlights are: Could not breathe but I survived up until last two songs and then I was like I can't do this anymore and went to the bar to get drink and just spewed on the floor while I was resting. I have not been that bad ever at a gig. So many fucking people landed on my head. This couple was chatting with me and Lloyd for ages and soon as machine head came on i gave them a boost up and chucked em over barricade haha. Met this guy who had his appendix out he added me on fb Sam and he's tidy. Accidentally punched this guy aswell haha Robb was like hey and do your fists and I did it and boom I was like oh fuck I slowed it down then. Killer set from MH as ever they do not disappoint!

SETLIST CONTAINED:

Imperium

Volatile

Now We Die

Beautiful Mourning

The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears

Kaleidoscope

Clenching the Fists of Dissent

Guitar Solo (Phill Demmel)

Darkness Within

Catharsis

From This Day

Ten Ton Hammer

Is There Anybody Out There?

Locust

Beyond the Pale

Drum Solo (Dave McClain)

Bulldozer

Killers & Kings

Davidian

Behind a Mask

None but My Own

Triple Beam

Aesthetics of Hate

Encore:

Game Over

Old

Halo

So yeah, thanks for stopping by and reading this junk!

Catch ya later headcases!

This photo MH posted on facebook, hopefully its ok for me to use this just to share a photo of all the headcases in cardiff. 

Travel Diaries: London.

So here we are back on this random ramblin welshman's blog and a new segment perhaps is launching in which i document my travels? Oh i don't know about that i rarely go anywhere exciting and i have never left the UK for a holiday in my life. Some will find that fact a real shocker but you shouldn't as it is severely rare to see me sunburned. It has only happened twice maybe three times to me. Might go into that bit later but that's not what this topic of travel is about.

This one is about the three times i have been to London. So i hope you enjoy and to break it up for you, i will be adding some pictures so enjoy and comment and like and all that good stuff at the end of your visit to this post. Bit of a head's up also all views are my own.

LONDON!

A city i have been to three times, the city full of rich history both dark and lovely and the capital of the UK. London is home to the Queen, Olympics, Prime Minister, Big Ben, The London Eye, The Shard, Tower Bridge, The dungeons, Madame Toussauds and The Houses Of Parliament to name just a few famous places and people. 

I'd say London is the city where people have no patience for the busyness of the city life. Everyone is in a hurry and if they get slowed down, well they tend to kick off and this is only from observations of people i have made in my travels to the big city and it does not reflect on anyone or everyone in or from London. I will say again as ever these are my opinions and thoughts and they don't reflect everything or everyone just my own opinions and thoughts as i said. 

THE FIRST TIME

The first time i went to London was back in mid July 2014 for London Film & Comic Con with 5 of my friends. It was a great first experience my first trip over the Severn bridge into England so i was taking in all the sights on a 4 hour taxi trip. The main point of the trip or rather, the point which inspired us to take the trip was the fact it was Stan Lee's last UK convention and we all wanted to meet him. Did we get to meet Stan Lee? Nope. Why? The queues there were utterly insane! I had photo ops with a bunch of guests there and they all conflicted at the same time so the entire time of the con i was running around like a headless chicken trying to make it to an area with a celebrity guest to have a photo against a blank canvas behind us. There was many guests there besides Stan Lee i wanted to meet so despite not meeting Stan i did meet everyone else i wanted to meet and had a nice day and experience. I met Tyler Mane, Al Snow, Jeremy Borash, Magnus, James Storm, Lita, Casper Van Dien, Paul Freeman, David Yost, Jason Narvy and Paul Schrier. I will add this was a hot busy Saturday we went and it was held in Earls Court. Traffic was so terrible. 

My un-photogenic self with David Yost aka Billy Cranston MMPR Blue.

THE SECOND TIME

The second time i went to London was also for a comic con run by Showmasters and this was again mid July but 2015 and it was held in The Olympia and it was just me and James who went and it was Friday i believe. It was a lot less busy this time and it was a lot more relaxed and enjoyable we both met everyone we wanted to and bought what we wanted. Our main point in going was just to meet Jason David Frank and we did it. It was a great day out not as hot either as the past one and this was one of my fave comic cons maybe my second maybe third favourite overall. Celebrity guests i met were; Jason David Frank, Steve Cardenas, Jason Faunt and Erin Cahill. 

Myself and Jason David Frank aka Tommy of Power Rangers.

THE THIRD TIME

Flash forward to my third trip to London which was 4th September it was just a day out with my work colleagues and it was a lovely trip. Let's have a run down of the day shall we? I had 3 hours sleep woke up 4am to get ready and then went to my work place to meet with everyone to get down to Cardiff to get the 7am bus to London and now being a tall person it for me was cramped as i do require more legroom but it's fine i stick this stuff out and moan about it when i stand up later haha.

Took 4 hours to get to London we got to Victoria station and from the outside i was like "This looks small." we get in the building and it's like a shopping centre like ones in Cardiff so i was not out of my comfort zone but i was very nervous for days leading up to the London trip. I was still nervous in London before we got on the tube because that part was scaring me the most. Why was i so nervous of the tube? It's due to all the stories i have heard or seen of it being very fast and cramped and of any incidents and bad things happening but eh it was fine but back to the bit before the tube. Go past some shops and then go down some escalators and then oh my god the place was huge! We queued for 10 mins or so for day travel tickets. Then after we had our tickets the dash to get the train to Madame Toussauds kicked off. 

Soon as we got underground it blew me away and took my breath from me because it was so damn hot even the air was but it was a quick adjustment. There's so many escalators about on the underground and they caught me off guard the first lot because they are a tad faster than the ones i have been on in Cardiff or anywhere in Wales to be honest. On the tube now it was not as bad as i had imagined or anything made it out to be or maybe we went at quiet times who knows. Got on the train and waited and few seconds after i boarded i was stood up holding onto the rails and the doors closed and vwoosh off it went i was like holding on it was pretty darn fast compared to anything i been on before. I was looking out the window and all i could see is darkness speeding past and the noise of the train and the speed of it was like we were going to time travel you know i jokingly said "i feel like we are about to go back in time like back to the future now" to me it was that fast. It was a weird experience and we were all running about going back and forth to all the stations, changing over to get a different train and so on anyway i got used to it and its speed and the escalators and their speed and all went fine. 

To Madame Toussauds now and i'll be completely honest i have been wanting to go to Toussauds for years and i found it a bit disappointing as i expected it to be more spaced out and less cramped than it was and to have individual themed rooms through different doors you walk into but it was just a bunch of stair climbing and there everything is. 

It's a walking tour. There was a ride there also everyone had to get on and it was moving cabs taking you through a history of London and it started nicely and then it went dark like real fast! There was a Grim Reaper behind a child and there was like holograms of children running around with ring a ring a rosies playing that was creepy as fuck! The ride was alright i was more confident of the ride before the bar lowered onto me but of course that was purely for safety purposes and it's cool so now i don't know why i wrote this line but eh it's all documented from my brain and now pasted onto text in this blog post. We did the Alien Experience which was a quick walk or run through a dark area in alien inspired ship from Covenant and having loud noises and an Xenomorph pop out with some guy by the exit hiding in the dark jumping out at people was not as scary as the atmosphere made it out to be. 

The Marvel 4D experience was amazing, i loved it so much it was so bizarre but a good bizarre if you get me. The wax works at Madame Toussauds are incredible so life like i applaud them for their fantastic work and besides feeling a little disappointed it was a great experience. We then had two hours to kill before we could make our food booking at Planet Hollywood. So we all split up and some went to Self-fridges, some to Forbidden Planet and the group i was with well......we went to Weather spoons. Some of our group after finding out my group went to spoons had said "You came all the way to London and your going to spoons? Why!?" and my response was "Hey it's cheap and reliable and we are guaranteed a place inside to sit and chill out and have a pint." Good response or not? YOU DECIDE! So after that chill in spoons we raced and got to Planet Hollywood which is a great restaurant like the food is lovely! The film props inside the place are so fascinating and amazing sights to see, just in the entrance to the restaurant is the screen used Red MMPR costume and i geeked the hell out when i seen it.

After our lovely meal we went to M&M world which i thought was a cool and very colourful shop but to have it that big and with 3 floors filled of the same stuff is just ridiculous.

After that we visited Vue West End which is really massive and posh and then basically headed for the bus home. The travel home from London to me always feels longer than the journey to London, it's weird. Anyway 4 hour bus trip home and yeah basically that was it, a lovely day full of great new experiences with so many amazing people and if any of them are reading this i just want to thank you, so thank you very much for a great day. 

And that being said and done it is the end of this blog post. Thank you for stopping by and reading this. 

Photo credits to - Me, Daniel O'Sullivan, Harri Gibbs, Google Images, Showmasters and Madame Toussauds Photographers