Spider-Man Remastered PC review: All sparkle, no substance

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Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) already got a remaster for PlayStation 5 back in 2020, and now it’s been remastered for Windows PC as well, with spinoff game Miles Morales to be released on PC later this year. And despite its glossy sheen on two new platforms since its release, it hasn’t aged well. In fact, its celebration of both the police and surveillance states is downright cringeworthy today. Newcomers might expect some twist ending in which Spidey discovers and unravels systemic corruption. But Spider-Man is still just as surface-level as the new coat of paint that this remaster offers up: There are criminals and there are civilians, heroes and supervillains, and nothing in between.

Perhaps the biggest perk of Spider-Man’s arrival on Steam storefronts is that it’s also playable on the Steam Deck. I played it three ways — natively installed, streaming via Steam, and streaming via Moonlight (an app that tends to work better than Steam’s streaming service). Each worked well — even Steam’s streaming option, which hasn’t been as reliable with other games I’ve tried on the Steam Deck since receiving it a month ago.

Most often I opted to play the game’s installed version straight off the Steam Deck, so I could play it in offline mode and not have to worry about maintaining a good connection with my desktop PC for streaming. (The Steam Deck doesn’t have an Ethernet jack, so I use a USB-C adapter, but there’s only one USB-C jack on the Steam Deck, and it’s intended for the power cable.) It will surprise few people to learn that Spider-Man can be a battery hog on this device; I primarily played while plugged in. The game also causes the Steam Deck to heat up quite a bit, forcing its fan to compensate. With headphones in, however,