I want to preface this review by saying I think this game is rushed. The story, gameplay, and writing barely suffered from this in my experience, but there are many elements that show signs of being rushed. Glitches engaging from funny to annoying or game breaking, a lack of being able to change the time of day in the post-game, a lack of NG+, and a rushed finale post a specific mission. All signs the game was rushed in some capacity.
Despite this, the game is very clearly a love letter to Spider-Man media, several Spider-Man stories, and most especially Venom and Kraven. Characters are written excellently, the story captures you hard and keeps you engaged even in the lows of the rushed final act, and the gameplay is so vastly improved from the previous games that I honestly would never want to go back to play them ever again just because this game adds in so many tweaks that renders the others virtually invalid. The symbiote powers are incredibly fun to play with, the spider arms give Peter a much needed boost in his gameplay, and Miles' new electric powers are also very fun to screw around with. Traversal is probably the best it's ever been since Web of Shadows and I don't think I've ever had so much fun just mindlessly swinging across Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. The new boroughs sure aren't too horribly distinct from the main island, but they give more space to play around with and that's all I want in the end. As for villains, Kraven is just the best. An absolute menace from beginning to end that steals the show whenever he's on screen. Venom doesn't have enough screentime, but whenever he's there he's also a menace worthy of Tony Todd's amazing voice work. Kraven is perfect, and Venom is nearly perfect, he just needed more time. Regardless, the game's small flaws compound to annoy me enough to give the game a tentative 10/10. Once the bugs and the lack of day time switching and NG+ are addressed, my only complaint will be the rushed final arc. At that point I'll have no problem saying this game is my absolute favourite Spider-Man game.
(This is an edit: I want to amend something I said at the beginning. I think the writing definitely did suffer as a result of rushing, and I now realize that this game definitely deserved more time in the oven. I think I still prefer it to Spidey 1, but I'd say Spidey 1 is still a better game all around, but the gameplay improvements made here are so good that I can't ever see myself returning to the first two. Gameplay can carry a game SEVERELY, that's why I think sometimes it's better to focus on improving gameplay as opposed to other elements, and this is one of those cases where the story may be worse than the first game but the gameplay (and side content) definitely make up for it in spades.)