Spider-Man is one of my favorite games of all-time, but this was my first time playing the remastered version. The remaster honestly makes the original game better with graphic updates and I felt the game ran a bit smoother on PS5 than on PS4. Everything about this game just screams masterpiece to me. It absolutely nailed the combat as Spider-Man with really agile maneuvers, web gadgets, skills, and the additional moves you can do. Swinging also feels excellent and being in this epic interpretation of NYC is amazing. It's unfortunately the home of the Rangers and Islanders, but it's the setting of this awesome game so silver linings! The story is also the greatest film/game adaptation we've seen for the character, with basically every detail being handled perfectly. I just love this game so much, and I can't wait to finally play Spider-Man 2!!

TLDR: Clone of better games, clunky combat, repetitive, but still pretty fun and a good experience for Mad Max fans. It has its pros and cons, but in the end it's a good enough time.

With Furiosa out now I thought I'd play the Mad Max game for the first time, and it was an experience I both really liked and...didn't. Some things I really liked here was how it absolutely nailed the atmosphere of the movies. Not to sound like IGN, but it really makes you feel like you're in the Mad Max universe. Sure, The Wasteland can look extremely barren and boring but it's a wasteland. It's supposed to. That's what Mad Max is. I found it fun to drive through the world, and what made it fun was how awesome the Magnum Opus is. It's so much fun to upgrade this car and constantly find ways to change it to fit certain missions. You also aren't limited to how you have to improve it which was cool. But what's ironic is how much freedom you have in the car upgrades but how little in everything else.

I felt that Max himself was restricted in what he can do. He isn't a very good jumper and I felt that the shotgun could've been used more. His movements just feel limited to where you can't jump to places and it can make it a pain to get around. I like upgrading him with the Griffa tokens and the upgrades like you do with the car, but again I think there could've been more to do with him. Despite that, I still found the combat to be fun. I think it's a clunky, cheaper version than Batman Arkham but it was still fun enough. Evading and parrying wasn't always responsive and he'd sometimes punch the wrong guy, but overall combat was fine. I liked finding weapons lying around to use for a bit. And Max's Fury is so cool.

But after a while the game gets super repetitive. 90% of the missions are beating up a small array of enemies or car combat. That obviously is Mad Max in the movies, but I wanted more variety out of this game. I also thought the story was lacking and the game forces hours of repetitive side missions to fill the gaps of what it chose not to do in its already weak story. There are emotional moments towards the end that got me and the ending scene wraps this up perfectly, but the story is worse than Beyond Thunderdome's.

I also noticed as soon as I got in the game it's very reminiscent of Uncharted, Batman Arkham, and Borderlands. It feels like a cheap, worse version of all three of these games. Is this game suitable? Yes. Is it good for Mad Max fans? Yes. Does it appear like a clone of those that's worse than all? Yes.

So in the end there were quite a few things I enjoyed in this game. Collectibles, scrap hunting, the atmosphere, upgrading the car, and being Max were all highlights. The problem is that the overall repetitiveness and weak story is a huge drawback and the presentation of a worse version of Uncharted and Batman Arkham. It's good enough, but I wouldn't return to it.