Spider-Man (2015 PS4 Video Game)

Spider-Man is a 2015 action-adventure video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4, based on the Marvel Comics character, Spider-Man. The game first went into development in 2013 and releases worldwide on September 4, 2015. The game tells a new story about the character of Spider-Man; a story not tied into any comic book, movie, or video game, and covers new grounds by exploring both aspects of Peter Parker and Spider-Man.

Rating
T (Teens) for Blood, Drug Reference, Language, and Violence

Gameplay Dynamics/Features

 * The immersive combat system is partially inspired by the Batman: Arkham video games, mixing those dodge and attack elements with web gadgets, parkour, swinging, and great variety in combat, as the combat is what Spider-Man fights like in the comic books
 * Unlike other Spider-Man video games in the past, there will be integrated side missions, some relating to the story, directly and non-directly, as well as different storylines
 * The map includes of a giant Manhattan, nearly resembling the actual size of Manhattan, New York in real life
 * The swinging sticks to buildings and related objects (as well as trees) and gives the player a multitude of swinging parkour and freedom to play around with
 * The game wants to show the player that there is another life to Spider-Man; Spider-Man is not just out there swinging around and fighting bad guys; he is also Peter Parker. This game takes place five years into Peter's career as Spider-Man, with Peter being a third-year college student at Empire State University and the game gives the player the option to go to the college, explore the area, and complete activities there to earn Research Tokens, as well as complete certain side missions (a couple specific side missions involve the school)
 * There are a total of 28 suits in the game with each of them holding different abilities (For example; the Noir Spider-Man suit is completely silent during stealth, even when running). To unlock suits, the player would need to complete side missions and other activities around Manhattan to earn specific tokens to earn those suits
 * There are web gadgets and web gadget upgrades that the player has at their heart to fight with style and stealth with style
 * The maximum level in the game is 60 with four different skill trees (all with a multitude of upgrades); Webbing (deals with webbing in combat, stealth, or even just general swinging), Innovator (increases the variety of combat and combo attacks), Defender (increases the variety and flow of dodge attacks, as well as air attacks), and Special (increases the flow and variety of special abilities, as well as implanting that system into web gadgets)

HLTB
Main Story (alone): 19 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities): 31 hours

100% Completion: 40 hours

Playable Character

 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Yuri Lowenthal)

Protagonist

 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Yuri Lowenthal)

Main Story Antagonists

 * Lonnie Lincoln/Tombstone
 * Max Dillon/Electro
 * Hammerhead
 * Silvermane
 * Mac Gargan/Scorpion
 * Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino
 * Herman Schultz/Shocker
 * Adrian Toomes/The Vulture

Side Mission Antagonists

 * Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
 * Quentin Beck/Mysterio
 * Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon
 * Tony Masters/Taskmaster
 * Frederick Foswell/The Big Man
 * Abe Jenkins/Beetle
 * Alexi Vazhin

Supporting Characters

 * Mary Jane Watson
 * Aunt May
 * Captain Jean DeWolffe
 * J. Jonah Jameson
 * Norman Osborn
 * Dr. Curt Connors
 * Detective Yuri Watanabe
 * Harry Osborn
 * Wilson Fisk

DLC Villains

 * Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
 * Daniel Brito/Fancy Dan
 * Abby
 * Montana
 * Mac Gargan/Scorpion
 * Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard
 * Mr. Hyde
 * Joseph Michaels 
 * Goldbug
 * Delilah
 * Fly-Girl
 * Mark Raxton/Molten Man
 * Mud-Thing
 * Morris Bench/Hydro-Man

Synopsis
An experienced vigilante and the bantering Wall-Crawling superhero of Manhattan, Peter Parker has been Spider-Man for five years, currently being a third-year student at Empire State University. Peter struggles on balancing his responsibilities as both Spider-Man and Peter Parker; protecting the city from danger and fighting crime as Spider-Man, to making it in time to class, going to his job at the Daily Bugle, paying his apartment rent, and spending time with his beloved girlfriend, Mary Jane Watson. In the midst of all this, a war between criminals and extremely powerful crime bosses takes a toll on Manhattan; a crime war between three dangerous men being Tombstone, Silvermane, and Hammerhead. All three run dangerous operations throughout the city and turn the city into a giant warzone, which Spider-Man will not allow. As villains from Spider-Man's years of fighting come back to the light and new villains such as Electro and Scorpion rise up, Spider-Man must mantle up and learn to realize what true responsibility is...

Ending
A final battle between Spider-Man and Electro, who was just Max Dillon before all of this and an innocent electrician that fell into a vat of electric eels after a battle earlier in the game ensued between Spider-Man and the Vulture. After Spider-Man and even councilman Wilson Fisk work together on providing evidence to the police department (minus DeWolffe and Yuri, since they both believed Spider-Man in his discovery) and the FBI of Lonnie Lincoln's trading of illegal weapons and the drugs in which enhanced him, Spider-Man confronts Max to try and calm him down, as he causes a max blackout in Manhattan. After this epic battle, Spider-Man sees that the city is now safe and apologizes to Electro, who gets locked up in The Raft alongside Gargan (with Jameson having to apologize to Gargan for setting him up with the experiment that turned Lonnie into Tombstone, aka Hell's Dose), Hammerhead, Tombstone, and Silvermane. Peter arrives late to Thanksgiving dinner, where Mary Jane, Harry, Norman, and Aunt May are. Since Aunt May knows Peter was close to eviction from his apartment, Aunt May gives Peter an envelope of $500 and Peter tells her he cannot allow himself to accept this money, but Aunt May just smiles and tells Peter that $500 is no big deal. Peter hugs Aunt May and swings along Manhattan knowing that the city is safe.

After Credits Scenes
After Credits Scene 1: In a room of multiple computers, all the computer monitors are either images or footage of Spider-Man in action. The camera zooms out of those and reveals Kraven the Hunter...

After Credits Scene 2: Fisk is walking into The Raft, showing his security and the guards either confused or asking Fisk questions like, "What is Councilman Fisk doing in this piece of shit?" Silvermane has his back turned from his highly-restricted cell (which forces his suit to not work at all) and turns around and sighs when he sees Fisk. Fisk blocks communications on the cameras and security, so that they cannot hear him. Fisk tells Silvermane that Silvermane is lucky that Fisk is not going to kill him. Fisk tells Silvermane he is cutting his payroll for not putting Hammerhead or Tombstone in the grave. The camera zooms to the timer of the blocked security feed and Silvermane curses at Fisk while he walks out. Silvermane insanely yells to the guards that Fisk cannot be trusted, but the guards electrocute him and Fisk walks out, while the camera pans out and Fisk looks at his building; Fisk Tower. The camera cuts to black...

DLC
There is an expansion pack known as The City That Never Sleeps, which comes in a bundle that includes three story DLC; the first one releasing in November 2015, the second one releasing in December 2015, and the third one releasing in February 2016. The expansion altogether is $25, while each individual DLC is $10. The third one releases two months after the second one because the second DLC is the biggest one in the game that adds the most extra content to the game. Synopsis: After leaving clues for Spider-Man to find around Manhattan, Black Cat, Spider-Man's former lover and occasional adversary, initiates her grand heist; stealing all the jewelry, cash, mafia weapons, Silvermane's tech, and Tombstone's Hell's Dose drug for fortune. Spider-Man, alongside Yuri and DeWolffe, must stop Black Cat from succeeding in this grand heist and while this is happening, Spider-Man visits memory lane and revisits his old past with Black Cat...
 * The Heist

New Features: Boss Battles: HLTB:
 * 1) Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man suit (Ability: Web gadgets refill every second)
 * 2) New challenge tokens to collect around the city (Black Cat's challenges and tricks)
 * 3) New enemy faction (Russian Thugs, who try to steal from Black Cat's collection)
 * 4) Two new side mission storylines (Abby, Black Cat's best friend from the orphanage who helps her in her crusade) and (Ari, a teenage girl in whom Black Cat enables to spy out the remaining mafia clans to steal their weapons)
 * 5) New hideouts (Russians)
 * 1) Felicia Hardy/Black Cat
 * 2) Abby
 * 3) Montana
 * 4) Daniel Brito/Fancy Dan
 * 5) Felicia Hardy/Black Cat

Main Story (alone)- 4 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities)- 8 hours

100% Completion- 10 hours

Ending:

Spider-Man stops all the robberies on Black Cat's map (which can be visited in Felicia Hardy's penthouse), but Black Cat leaves town with jewels from her secret buyer. Black Cat farewells Spider-Man and tells him this will not be the last time they meet... Synopsis: With Hell's Dose off the streets, Dr. Connors reveals to Peter that he has cooked up a serum for his missing arm; a cross-species serum that involves genetically-altered lizards. Peter is afraid for his close professor, but Connors goes ahead and experiments the serum on himself. At first, Connors grows his arm back, but later mutates into a horrific monster known as the Lizard. As the Lizard rampages across New York infecting several innocent folk, Spider-Man must bring Dr. Connors back to the light. Meanwhile, Mac Gargan manages to break free from The Raft and causes his own harm by attempting to destroy Spider-Man, but Gargan is later forced to work with Spider-Man to stop the Lizard, as Gargan is the only other person who can...
 * Sting Of The Tail

New Features: Boss Battles: HLTB:
 * 1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suit (Ability: Swing kicks are instant takedowns)
 * 2) Future Foundation Spider-Man suit (Ability: can turn completely invisible; comes in handy during stealth gameplay)
 * 3) Parker Industries suit (Ability: is not effected by missile attacks)
 * 4) The Amazing Spider-Man suit (Ability: uppercut attacks are instant takedowns)
 * 5) Three new enemy factions (the infected civilians, the prisoners in whom Gargan traded with in The Raft, and mutated civilians)
 * 6) Five new side mission storylines (helping Billy cook up an antidote for the mutated civilians), (Delilah, the dangerous assassin who means well by protecting New York, but wishes to actually kill the infected to stop the infection from spreading, which Spider-Man cannot tolerate), Goldbug (Scorpion's old friend from high school who wants to dig into Oscorp to loot for treasure), Mr. Hyde (mutated by the Lizard serum and tries to eat people), Fly-Girl (a villain who is hired by Gargan to go and kill Jameson)
 * 7) New hideouts (Prisoners)
 * 8) New token type (Fidelity Tokens, can be earned at the Empire State of University and is needed to unlock all the new suits)
 * 1) Mac Gargan/Scorpion
 * 2) Mr. Hyde
 * 3) Goldbug
 * 4) Mac Gargan/Scorpion
 * 5) Joseph Michaels
 * 6) Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard
 * 7) Flint Marko/Sandman
 * 8) Dr. Curt Connors/The Lizard

Main Story (alone)- 8 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities)- 16 hours

100% Completion- 21 hours

Ending:

After Peter and Billy successfully cook up an antidote for Connors, Spider-Man tags alongside Yuri, DeWolffe, and even Scorpion to go to Central Park, where the Lizard is growing stronger. Spider-Man must turn him back to Connors and after this, Spider-Man arrests Gargan and tells Gargan that he has done his part and that he must go back to jail. DeWolffe comes to the conclusion that Ryker's Island would be best for Connors and Connors apologizes to his son, who looks disturbed. Connors tells his son he will be back and both place their hands on the car across from each other before Ryker's men drive Connors off... Synopsis: Peter must go investigate a rise in Manhattan's shoreline, which might cause a giant tsunami. Peter thinks little of this and goes on around Manhattan to try to keep the pipes controlled, but finds out that his old nemesis, Hydro-Man, is back in action. While Spider-Man tries to keep Hydro-Man from flooding New York, Peter gets a call from one of his old girlfriends from Midtown High School, Liz Allen. Liz is suspicious of her brother, Mark Raxton, who seems to be going out late at night and returning home looking all beat up. Spider-Man must balance trying to stop Hydro-Man whilst spying on Raxton at night. Spider-Man makes the terrifying discovery that Raxton can manipulate lava as Molten Man and poses a threat; the lava abilities make him dangerous and alters his personality, making Raxton insane. Molten Man and Hydro-Man go to war and try to kill each other, causing New York to be split between being endangered by lava and tsunamis. Spider-Man must keep these two dangerous men from tearing the city apart, while protecting Liz and keeping her safe while her poor brother is experiencing this change...
 * Elemental Wars 

New Features: Boss Battles: HLTB:
 * 1) Water-Insulated suit (Ability: can turn water-proof and fills all web gadgets with water)
 * 2) Flammable suit (Ability: can resist flames)
 * 3) Two new enemy factions (Thugs who turn into lava and water-enhanced creatures)
 * 4) One giant new side mission storyline involving Mud-Thing; Sandman returns after escaping Spider-Man in the last DLC and fights Hydro-Man, creating Mud-Thing, which proves to be a very grave threat in which Spider-Man must stop
 * 1) Flint Marko/Sandman
 * 2) Morris Bench/Hydro-Man
 * 3) Mud-Thing
 * 4) Morris Bench/Hydro-Man & Mark Raxton/Molten Man
 * 5) Mark Raxton/Molten Man

Main Story (alone)- 6 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities)- 9 hours

100% Completion- 14 hours

Ending:

After everything that has went down with Sandman, Molten Man, and Hydro-Man, Peter calls Liz and ensures her to stay home while he "calls Spider-Man" to deal with her brother. Liz ignores Peter's request and heads to Raxton's location near the Nameless Bar in Hell's Kitchen. Spider-Man stops Molten Man from spreading his power and burning down Hell's Kitchen. Spider-Man struggles at first, but manages to get multiple water hoses and uses a vaporizer Spider-Man got from Hydro-Man before his arrest to vaporize Raxton's powers and turn him back to normal. Raxton hugs Liz and Liz thanks Spider-Man. Liz asks Spider-Man if he knows Peter Parker and Spider-Man says, "Yeah, the guy's a pretty rad dude" and swings away...