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Marvel's Spider-Man was my game of the year. I know a bold statement to make at the beginning of my blog (not considering that most game reviewers made the same statement) but fuck it I'm going for it. Insomniac really out did themselves with this one. Spider-Man 2 on the PS2 was one of my all time favourites games, and although it was a movie tie in game, you could basically wave good bye to the main story (to a certain degree) as you go around swinging around the city laughing at the people who don't have the decency to develop web shooters. It says a lot about the game when the mechanics to get from point A to point B is better than pretty much everything else in the game. I remember that I lent this game from a friend for a week and tried to come up with a excuse to not return it. However i eventually returned the game because he was my best mate and I wanted to lend games from him in future. He was robbed in the near future and the Spider_Man game was taken. About a week after I managed to get another copy from some one and when I told my friend I was playing it, he thought it was his copy and was so happy. I had to break his heart however telling him the truth but the response sums up the feeling most people had for this game. But after time the Spider-Man games haven't really captured that same feeling. Until now. The game starts you off right in the middle of a mission taking down one of Daredevil's main villains but this is the Marvel universe where villains are passed around like a smaller member of the prison cell. You been Spider-Man for a while and the better know of the naughty men trying to make a fashion statement have be established. Naturally the removal on Kingpin makes another business man bored with golf, and deciding to take up a new hobby to eye New York and try a few pick up lines on it. This leads to a new villain that was in the photography club at school come along and start to take his revenge on the city...you know that old chest nut. The game itself was fantastic to play. As soon as a new reason came along to avoid the main story line like challenges or tokens, I took it. The re-imagining of the characters is welcoming and still kept to the original just like using Spidney's new suit. However if you are against change, no problem you can use the old suit. Unlocking all the suits was the main goal I wanted, New York's safety could wait. The suits included almost every armoured suit and the ghost rider suit which is exactly how it sounds...amazing. The one little crack in a otherwise great game, is the DLC. The downloaded content continues were the main story left off up trying to repair the damage main to the city and another the main story was fantastic, the story for the DLC starts off great...but then just kind of falls apart it's like the like the story team partied so hard after creating the main story but then came to work the next day with massive hang overs, they relied on the sober drive of the team how was responsible for making the coffee starting taking over. Similar to this blog actually.