Swinging for Game of the Year: ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Review

Insomniac has created something really special here. After the success of 2018’s Spider-Man on the Playstation 4, it would have been easy to rest on their laurels. They could have just slapped a new skin on the character model, written up an easy story and called it a day. But Insomniac wanted to show love and respect to this character and that’s exactly what they did. With new gameplay and an engaging new story, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales swings in declaring it’s his time to shine. And God does he shine!

Miles’ origin was established in 2018’s Spider-Man, since then he’s been training under Peter to take on the Spider-Man mantel. When Peter is called away and leaves the country, it’s up to Miles to step up and protect his city while he’s gone, growing into his own Spider-Man. Insomniac again proves how important story can be to a game. Stuck between the two-warring factions, Roxxon and The Underground, Miles struggles in living up to the hero mantel while maintaining his own personal life. Nadji Jeter has been playing various versions of the character for a few years now and has given his best performance to date here. There’s a caring sincerity behind his words and you really believe he is struggling when his friends and family are put in danger, go become the danger itself.

While the game is shorter than the 2018 version as we all expected, they still packed a surprisingly large amount of story and gameplay here. The whole city is still opened up to you and …