The Spectacular Spider-Man (2025 PS5 Video Game)

The Spectacular Spider-Man is an action-adventure, open-world stealth & fighter video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5, serving as a continuation to Marvel's video game universe and a sequel to 2021's Spider-Man 3; that game ended a trilogy of Spider-Man games and this game begins a new trilogy. This game went into development in late 2021 and was revealed at E3 2023 and was supposed to release in 2024, but creative director, Bryan Intihar, stated that they needed more time to polish the game and truly make it a great PlayStation 5 experience with a great continuation to an already established universe of four games that came before. The game releases on PlayStation 5 consoles on February 24, 2025.

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

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. There are a couple more web gadgets and skills to unlock, however, Insomniac Games has developed the enemies so that they are way smarter, can detect Spider-Man easier, and overall make them challenging and unsuspecting; the combat includes combination moves and web combinations to improve overall flow of combat
 * The last three Spider-Man games had complaints about Spider-Man essentially being the only playable character in the vanilla aspects of the game; Insomniac Games has listened and implemented Miles Morales aka the Ultimate Spider-Man as a playable character who plays a role that does not overshadow Peter Parker's, but still has his own missions and even unique combat style (Miles is less experienced and has different abilities gained from the spider bite that differentiates him from Peter); Black Cat is also playable in her own missions and Insomniac has brought back the combat duo system where Spider-Man can duo finish and duo-play with another character
 * The maximum level cap is level 100
 * Manhattan, the actual real-life accurate entirety of Queens, Staten Island, Statue of Liberty, Ryker's Island, the Raft, and Brooklyn, with Queens including forests and upstate New York beyond the streams of New York; almost all building interiors, including bridges can be entered, with lore to be explored and side activities to do, as well as possible crafting skills to collect in them to craft personal spider suits, drones, and web fluid
 * Spider-Man has a total of 50 (vanilla base) game suits; players must uncover secrets and complete difficult, grinding challenges to unlock most of the suits
 * Black Cat has a total of 10 (vanilla base) game suits
 * Miles Morales has a total of 5 (vanilla base) game suits
 * The hangout system continues on from the last two games
 * Insomniac wants to be active with the Spider-Man community, so they implemented daily challenges for the players to complete to earn skill points, unlock skill tree categories (as there are over 10), and earn specific in-game suits for all three playable vanilla characters
 * Peter's cell phone, laptops, and computers return
 * Players get to be immersed in Peter Parker's world once more and better than ever; keeping up with his daily responsibilities (especially with the storyline involving the symbiote); story follows a 28-year old Peter Parker with his new job as an assistant professor at Empire State University (with that being a playable area) and helping Morgan Michaels run the FEAST organization and keep it's consistency going four years after Martin Li was arrested and Aunt May was killed; Peter also must keep his reputation with the city good
 * With the storyline with the symbiote (which the suit makes Spider-Man stronger, angrier, and more brutal combo moves), the city cannot trust Spider-Man; the player must keep Spider-Man's reputation strong in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn to continue on with their journey; if not, certain activities will not be able to be done if Spider-Man does not act like the hero he is supposed to be (there are certain side mission approaches as well as civilian approaches that could end badly; it is nothing like The Amazing Spider-Man 's Hero or Menace system; because this system actually works and it effects the storyline massively)

HLTB
Main Story (alone): 33 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities): 62 hours

100% Completion: 91 hours

Playable Characters

 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Yuri Lowenthal)
 * Miles Morales/Ultimate Spider-Man (Nadji Jeter; playable in twelve solo missions)
 * Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Erica Lindbeck; playable in eight solo missions)
 * Mary Jane Watson (Laura Bailey; playable in seven missions)
 * Aaron Davis/Prowler (Phil Morris; playable in separate story DLC)
 * Eddie Brock/Venom (Troy Baker; playable in separate story DLC)
 * Richard Fisk/Blood Rose (Kevin Conroy; playable in separate story DLC)

Protagonists

 * Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Yuri Lowenthal)
 * Miles Morales/Ultimate Spider-Man (Nadji Jeter)
 * Felicia Hardy/Black Cat (Erica Lindbeck)

Main Story Antagonists

 * Harry Osborn/The Goblin
 * Richard Fisk/Blood Rose
 * Spencer Smythe
 * Karl Fiers/The Finisher
 * Gustav Fiers/The Gentleman
 * Phineas Mason/The Tinkerer
 * Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven The Hunter
 * Aaron Davis/Prowler
 * Dmitri Smerdyakov/Chameleon
 * Mac Gargan/Scorpion
 * Quentin Beck/Mysterio

Side Mission Antagonists

 * Carlos LaMuerto/Black Tarantula
 * Martin Li/Mister Negative
 * Norton Fester/Looter
 * Max Dillon/Electro
 * Swarm
 * Herman Schultz/Shocker
 * A'sai
 * Abner Doolittle
 * Emil Blonsky/Abomination
 * Alexi Vazhin
 * Ana Kravinoff
 * Akasha Martinez
 * Aleksei Sytsevich/Rhino
 * Flint Marko/Sandman
 * Alyosha Kravinoff
 * Ambush
 * Amos Jardine
 * Anaconda
 * Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom
 * John Jameson/Man-Wolf
 * Arthur Nagan
 * Arsenal
 * Michael Collins/Deathlok
 * Asylum
 * Atlas
 * Batroc The Leaper
 * Cain Marko/Juggernaut
 * Ivan Kragoff/Red Ghost
 * Johnny Storm/Human Torch
 * Overdrive
 * Hammerhead (Black Cat)
 * Abby (Black Cat)
 * Ari (Black Cat)
 * Ballistique (Black Cat)
 * Jonathan Blaze/Blaze (Black Cat)
 * Garrison Klum (Black Cat)
 * Ghost Maker (Ultimate Spider-Man)
 * Conrad Marcus (Ultimate Spider-Man)
 * Rachel Leighton/Diamondback (Ultimate Spider-Man)
 * Lucia Von Bardas (Ultimate Spider-Man)

Supporting Characters

 * Mary Jane Watson
 * Miles Morales
 * Norman Osborn
 * Eddie Brock
 * Miles Warren
 * Detective Yuri Watanabe
 * Ned Leeds
 * Phil Urich
 * Dr. Morgan Michaels
 * Rio Morales
 * J. Jonah Jameson
 * Anne Weying