Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered for PC vs PS5 Performance Review
Sony has been slowly building up its catalog of PC ports of first-party PS4 games, and now with Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, we have the biggest to date. This game needs no introduction. The PlayStation 5 remaster improved on the 2018 original significantly with new facial models, improved resolution and performance, DualSense controls, and graphics that show off some of the best ray tracing on consoles thus far.
Porting Insomniac's incredible game and bespoke engine to PC was by no means an easy feat of engineering, but the task was put in the very capable hands of Nixxes, a new member of Sony Studios. Here’s what’s on offer in the new PC version:
From that scorecard it is a solid PC port with all the options you would expect, enabling a great breadth of PCs to run it. Even the Steam Deck can join in the web slinging action with full support.
It’s worth mentioning that several updates dropped during our review period, including an 11th-hour patch that added more anti-aliasing options. All tests here were either conducted on or validated to have consistent performance with this most recent patch. (Sorry for the slight delay!)
I wanted Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 to make me feel like Spider-Man: To sail between the highrises of New York City, to nimbly web up hordes of enemies, and tussle with familiar, animal-themed villains. Insomniac Games’ first foray into the world of Marvel handily delivers on all of that. But what I didn’t expect from Spider-Man was to come away feeling just as fulfilled to have inhabited the life of Peter Parker. Aside from a few odd pacing issues, which momentarily took me out of the experience of being a superhero, and a world of optional missions that don’t always quite live up to the heft of
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