Review: Spider-Man on PC is a Steam Deck marvel

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Spider-Man Remastered on PC brings together the original game, which debuted on PS4, as well as the three expansion packs that added fan-favourite villains and fleshed out Peter Parker’s first outing.

This is a collection of all of the content released for the game. However, to truly complete the story you’ll have to wait until Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales is released on PC in the future.

While some of the game’s open-world box-ticking exercises haven’t aged as well as we’d have liked (there are a lot of enemy bases to clear and backpacks to collect), the story is still excellent, the combat is engaging and the swinging is practically perfect.

The latter has been the game’s calling card for years but it’s literally difficult to imagine how it’s ever going to be bettered, outside of adding a few more tricks for a bit of style.

Visually, Insomniac’s title is a knockout. PC allows all of the bells and whistles, meaning that despite the fact that this PC version is built on the bones of a four-year-old game, it stands toe-to-toe with the heavyweights of modern gaming.

While the improved shadows and ray-traced reflections will require a significant machine to get running at full speed, should you have the hardware, it’s incredibly impressive.

Although, for us, it’s the new ultra-widescreen support that’s the show stopper. Swinging through the city across multiple monitors, or one ultra-wide is a whole new experience.

Spider-Man’s performance on Steam Deck is just as spectacular. It’s almost unbelievable that a game that was such a showpiece for a console only one generation ago can now fit in your (admittedly extra large and roasting hot) pocket.

When review code for the game was first issued, the game performed woefully on the