The PS1 Spider-Man Game Needs To Be On PlayStation Premium
Sony recently announced that it would be combining PS+ and PS Now into a service that includes the best bits of both, trying very hard to give the impression it is Sony's Game Pass, when it's actually Sony's Nintendo Switch Online. It looks like a horse and sounds like a horse, but it's actually a zebra. That isn't the worst thing in the world, especially for casual players who might not follow all the big releases, considering how deep Sony's roster is. Since the subscription service was announced, I've only thought of one thing - the classic Spider-Man game needs to be in there.
Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 may not technically be the console's best exclusive, given how many refined, mature, gritty blockbusters call the console home, but it has always been my personal favourite. The traversal in Spider-Man makes it stand out amongst Sony's increasingly similar and focus-tested blockbusters, and there's a sense of vibrant fun that other games, laden by heavy themes, never seem to replicate. My love for Spider-Man (and its follow up Miles Morales) has only made my heart grow fonder for the 2000 version.
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Spider-Man (2000) was the first superhero game I played, and given how terrible most superhero games were in the late '90s and early '00s, any other selection might have put me off the genre for life. The PS4 version feels like the perfect marriage of 2000's efforts and Insomniac's previous game to Spider-Man, Sunset Overdrive. Thanks to the fact Spider-Man is better known in the world of comics, movies, television, and lunch boxes, and because the PS4 version is the only one that comes to mind when we consider Spider-Man video games, it's not the
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