It’s hard to rate a game that I see as something in between a sequel and DLC. It doesn’t add enough to the formula to be a sequel, but there’s enough there that calling it a DLC seems disingenuous. What I can say is that it’s great. It succeeds because the well-designed mechanics of the original combined with the new venom abilities and the exaggerated swagger that comes with Miles finding his way as Spider-Man. Goes without saying that the game is a graphical masterwork and the music makes you feel like Spider-Man, with the added hip-hop flair to go along with the game’s theme of ‘be yourself.’

The game to revitalize the series after so many grew too resent the shifting focus to action. While I enjoy the action-packed sixth game, Resident Evil needed this game to come back. A return to survival horror in the first-person captured the desires of the original fans of the series and new fans because of the popularity of first-person horror games at the time. One of the scariest games in recent memory, 7 knows how to do horror. Among that, the exploration of the Baker Mansion is great fun and the boss fights capture that campy feeling that I love in Resident Evil games. A good horror game isn’t just scary but fun mechanically and this is a great example.