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oh hello there
ben gilbert here from business insider
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i'm ben gilbert as previously introduced
and today we're playing spider-man
for the playstation 4. uh today you've
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but hello everybody out there on the
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uh so again this is spider-man on the
playstation 4. it's out today
uh today being september 7th uh it's a
playstation 4 exclusive
it's a massive open world game and it's
very attractive uh if you see me messing
with my ear a little bit i've got an
earpiece in it's being a little finicky
bear with me i'm not doing anything
crazy there i promise uh so anyway
this is spider-man uh we're very early
on in the game
i'm intentionally jumping in pretty
early there's an
intro part with a fight lots of
different stuff there
that's fine you don't need to see that
you might want to see that on your own
you know
but we're going to be doing some
exploring kind of showing off what this
game has to offer
which is a lot uh it's a third person
action game
uh so there's a lot of fighting there's
a lot of traversal it's an open world
game
uh so this manhattan that i'm in right
here that i am
leaping through and swinging through
majestically like a bird
or like a spider man is
uh exciting to explore uh and it's it's
really
uh large like manhattan itself uh
hilariously
ironically bizarrely we are actually
playing this from manhattan right now in
bi's headquarters
in beautiful uh downtown manhattan in
the uh
financial district um so
it's a little weird if anything i can go
to the place where i am physically
playing this in real life
in this game but i'm not gonna not yet
at least anyway not before i can show
you kind of the whole scope of the game
so early on you can see there are
instructions on the screen
in the bottom middle it's kind of still
tutorial stuff
i'm here standing over what looks to be
madison square garden
and yeah a lot of this is
navigable just by knowing manhattan so
you may not
because you may not live here i do live
here i don't live in manhattan but i'm
here all the time so i can actually
navigate
spider-man's world uh just by knowing
you know where things are in real life
which is pretty
weird uh you can also see that i'm able
to pretty easily navigate here without
doing a lot
i'm swinging around using just the right
trigger
the r2 trigger on the playstation
controller
and it's relatively easy to just grab
onto something and find grapple points
as i go and
that's kind of the major point of
spider-man on playstation 4. it's kind
of the
uh the major point of this uh
of this whole game uh is is being
a amazing superhero who can go wherever
he wants in manhattan
at high speeds and uh doing so stylishly
right like
i can run into a building full speed and
it doesn't slam
into it and stop he runs up the building
he immediately starts climbing i could
stop on the side of a building and just
kind of hang out it's not a problem
spider-man is ready for it
he'll backflip off of it even he doesn't
everything looks really good without
having to do a lot
basically right like i just landed
amazingly
in this game uh looking looking cool uh
while doing very little
uh which might sound oversimplified it's
not there's there's fine
fine uh modes of control to this game if
you really want to have that kind of
experience
you can do these point launches and kind
of speed up uh and the game
sets up various beans for you to uh do
these things
whether it's chases or uh
other stuff so let's jump into some of
that stuff though we're going to do some
of the main story missions early in the
game here
i'm probably going to be skipping
through a lot of the cutscenes
but there's you know there's there's
some of that and i'll also skip ahead
later on i'll probably
load up a save and jump ahead so we can
get an idea of what this game looks like
later on in the game
uh and i'm trying to spoil as little as
possible but beware you know like
you're watching this game being played
live you're gonna
you're gonna get some stuff spoiled um
but anyway while
we we watch this this cutscene maybe i
can skip through it
i don't think i can skip oh i can
oh great okay uh so we've got a question
here uh
while this plays separately from graham
it sounds like
uh it says did they accurately render
the entire city of new york
uh or the entire city of nyc it's all of
manhattan
uh it is just manhattan i should say
right from the beginning
this is just manhattan you're not going
to get the uh new york city being
staten island the bronx brooklyn
manhattan and queens
uh you don't get all five of those you
just get manhattan the middle central
island
uh a lot of what's thought of as the the
main
icon of new york city you know you get
uh
you get stuff like the world trade
center and union square and washington
square park there's a lot of these like
major landmarks
uh in the game but they don't directly
perfectly render out every little
every little detail there are whole
buildings missing sometimes
uh sometimes things are just shrunken
pretty dramatically like union square is
way smaller than it is in normal life
uh washington square park is way smaller
than it is et cetera et cetera
and so there's there's some of that uh
new york city or manhattan rather in
this game also ends
at like harlem uh whereas in real life
uh manhattan goes
much more uh north there are many
streets beyond that
um so anyway i'm gonna try to skip past
this cut scene
i can skip it uh and jump back into the
game
uh but there's a a good look at some of
the other stuff you're doing in this
game other than just exploring the open
world of spider-man right this is a game
about
spider-man as a person as a peter parker
uh the the guy who uh
lives in the world of uh relatively
modern new york city that is in this
game
uh and the things he has to live with
right like he's trying to make a living
and pay rent and
feed himself and whatever and that's
very hard as a guy who
spends a lot of his time outside uh
crime fighting for free
um and so some of the stuff he does for
instance is work with a friend of his
doctor octavius
who if you're a spider-man fan you may
know as a main character in spider-man
series
and he uh is working on prosthetics
and so he's got some stuff he's got to
help with here in terms of
these kind of mini-games that you play
uh these like there's this is kind of
like a game that you may have heard of
called pipe dreams
there's another one it's like a a
pattern recognition game
but they're essentially a way of mixing
up some of the stuff that you do in this
game
and these are not super difficult right
you can see that i've got pieces here on
one side
i'm dropping them in i've got a finite
number of pieces and i'm trying to make
this uh electricity flow to
the end point of a circuit essentially
um but it's
relatively simple game um but it breaks
up some of the
some of the the action of this game
right there's a good sense of pacing in
spider-man for playstation 4 where
you're not always
beating up bad guys or swinging around
or taking down
some super villain a lot of times you're
helping out with a science project or
talking to your aunt may
or many other things so
let's do this one as well pretty quick
oh
sure uh we've got another question here
uh
yeah okay so yeah there's there's uh
some complaints about the resolution of
the stream
uh that's i think just a measure of us
streaming it we're uh working out some
kinks as well this is
early days for us uh and so
yeah it's this is the first one actually
i shouldn't say early days so
we might have some uh resolution issues
to work out
um but uh we're trying to uh to figure
that out
so i'm sorry though if it looks a little
low res
i promise that this game is not uh
unattractive it is definitely
a uh very good looking game that uh
i've been enjoying on a ps4 pro at home
and uh it uh looks good yeah for lack of
a better word
um and then we've got another question
here from since 1989
uh any info of this game will be
available on other platforms uh so
that's a great question
uh so this game was made by insomniac
games they're known for
uh the ratchet and clank games
and they make a lot of multi-platform
games as well
uh or they have made multi-platform
games as well they're a
they're not owned by any particular
company um
but uh this game was made specifically
for sony's platform the playstation 4.
uh it was paid for by sony and as a
result it will stay on sony's platform
sony also i believe owns the rights to
spider-man
so that's another facet of this although
i know that spider-man is a marvel
property and marvel games are on many
platforms
um so yeah that's it's unlikely i would
say that that happens
i'm sorry to say uh but great question
and thank you for asking
and i will solve this puzzle now
and if you have any other questions feel
free to ask the game is 60 dollars it's
available as of today digitally and
physically in stores
there may even be some limited edition
stuff if you're looking for that i
believe there's a spider-man playstation
4 console if you're
looking to get all the way crazy this is
just kind of introducing some
more difficult puzzles here that have
voltages as well
this is very little of what you will do
in the game though i should be clear
this is not something you're going to
spend all of your time doing
um it certainly hasn't been the case for
me
it's been a small part of the game but
it's being introduced early on because
uh they're just kind of giving you uh an
idea of all the different stuff in the
game
um so yeah these are all good i've fixed
the doctor's schematic
and we've uploaded it
and uh yeah the world here looks good
though like uh the world of
of uh spider-man the the universe of
spider-man the manhattan the
interiors whatever so it's all very
attractive it's not like
the best looking game on the playstation
4 or anything like that but it is
certainly very attractive
all right we've got one more thing to
help the doctor with
very quickly this is the other type of
puzzles that are in the game
uh these require picking up fragments
and moving them this is very simple
early on
intentionally because they're just
trying to kind of teach you how to go so
there are spaces to fill in
and you're completing patterns it gets
much more complicated
and these are a lot of fun again as
something that you can like
do optionally in your down time with
this game there are very few instances
i've found where you're forced
to spend a bunch of time doing puzzles
or puzzle solving a lot of the game is
spent
playing as spider-man leaping around a
spider-man being a
superhero so let's get out of here
we've we've done some of that we've got
another question this time from scary
flower productions
uh what previous spider-man game would
you say is most similar to this game
uh in terms of gameplay and hey that's a
great question because there have been
several spider-man games before there
was a bunch of spider-man games that i
believe were just on playstation 2 they
might have also been on the original
xbox
um and they were largely based around
the films that came out
many years ago and a lot of people love
spider-man 2.
and specifically they love spider-man 2
because it has
a really great sense of an open world
and a fun
uh fluid sense of movement and it really
feels like insomniac games the people
who made this game
went really hard on that specifically so
much of this game feels like it is
centered around you moving fluidly
through the world and enjoying that as
much as possible
so i would say it compares most to that
game spider-man 2 the game that is
if anything the best of the spider-man
games
i personally loved the spider-man game
on super nintendo many years ago
and there's one aspect of this game that
is very
similar to that game in that you have a
spidey sense that
is uh important uh and specifically in
this game it's used for fights
so if you're about to get hit uh
spider-man's spidey sense goes off you
see it in kind of like a glowing
uh white area of effect around his head
and if you press the button at the right
time the the parry button or the the
dodge button
spider-man will leap out of the way and
shoot a web into the enemy's face
and it's a very simple mechanic but it's
something that
uses a uh concept from the world of
spider-man
his spidey sense in a very smart
gameplay way
so there's a lot of stuff like that that
i think that they've done a really good
job with
you can also maybe see on the on the
screen there's uh
just the facts with jjj uh it's uh
jay jonah jacobson something like that i
can't remember how
his name his full name but he was
somebody that in the comics
in the spiderman comics was a co-worker
of peter's at uh
of spider-man's rather at the daily
bugle the newspaper
of of new york city uh spider-man new
york city
and uh in this he's like a sean hannity
s character who
is uh got a radio show and
uh is a to use a extremely polite word
firebrand
uh he's uh he talks a lot of mess about
spider-man on the radio
and you can choose whether or not you
want to listen to it
so that's up to you i like listening to
it because i think it's funny
but it's also pretty ridiculous so i
understand if
you want to turn it off smartly they've
put something right up front in the game
so you can choose whether or not you
want to turn it off
and so this is yuri wadanabe she's one
of the
the captains of the police force and
she's kind of spider-man's in
to speaking with the police force she'll
be your kind of guide along throughout
the game
she's the i don't know the police chief
to batman
uh but for spider-man in this game uh
and uh yeah she's a she's a nice nice
person she's got nice things to say
she's a
she's an interesting character uh this
game is definitely full of interesting
characters um
it's something that i think they do a
really good job with in this game is
that it feels
like a cohesive story there feels like
there's
uh a bunch of different interesting
characters that i care about
uh you know it's a comic book still it's
not uh
it's not the deepest thing in the world
necessarily always
uh but it's uh certainly interesting
enough to keep you
uh invested during the the
you know however many hours you're going
to spend playing this game
i would say a lot of hours i've spent
many many hours playing this game so far
and i'm not done
it is as previously mentioned and open
world but that open world is like
very densely packed with stuff to do uh
right off the bat there are these kind
of unlocks uh for the map
uh they're gonna introduce the map in in
just a second uh but it looks like
somebody has taken down these towers all
over the city that the police used to
monitor the city
uh you can see that we've got manhattan
here this is manhattan island
and it's all blacked out um because
these police
towers have been taken out so your first
job as spider-man is
you can go around and unlock these
towers that unlock sections of the map
it's very similar to assassin's creed
has towers
far cry has towers it's a concept in
many open world games
similar here it's up to you how you want
to do them it's it's
there's a relatively simple mini game of
matching wavelengths with each of your
thumb sticks
to solve them it's not too hard but each
one you unlock
not only unlocks a section of map but it
unlocks a ton of stuff to do in that
section of map
and so for instance there are crimes
happening all over
and these ones with these gentlemen in
ski masks are called
thug crimes and so these are presumably
thugs uh and you are supposed to take
them out
uh and so i'm gonna tap triangle to web
strike
which is gonna initiate a fight
okay uh so we've got one more question
uh it's
can you go into buildings and the answer
is not really
uh basically no uh there are some
instances where you know you're going
into something because
there's a mission in there
you know but it's always the kind of
thing where you go to a door and you
press a button
and you then enter a building it's not
like you're going into a building
and it's a barber shop and you can
choose what haircut you want and
whatever
it's it's no it's there's no level of
that uh it's really not
meant to be that kind of open world like
i'm thinking of like grand theft auto
right where you go to
barber shops or you go to a tattoo shop
you go to a clothing store or whatever
there's some buildings that you go into
but they're usually like stores
um there's none of that in this that
i've seen at very least and
i'm very close to the end of the game if
not at the end of the game
so basically no uh but i would say that
the verticality
makes it so that you don't feel like
that's a limitation in grand theft auto
when you're on the ground
all the time it's important that there's
some sense of
life to those buildings that you can
feel like you can go to a store or
whatever else
but you can't fly around the world like
a bird like a majestic bird
like you can in spider-man which really
changes the way that you approach the
open world it feels much
larger because you can go wherever you
want
um i didn't mean to
abandon that mission i'll have abandoned
a mission by accident that's okay we're
going to jump back into it in a second
there's these pretty sweet loading
screens that have spiderman doing sweet
stuff sometimes he's riding a subway
sometimes he's uh eating a bagel doing
new york stuff
uh there's definitely a level of like
kitschy new yorkness to this game that i
uh appreciate that i mean that's part of
spider-man that's that's part of
the comic books in the movies as well um
but
uh yeah you'll also notice uh maybe
in the distance there's like uh avengers
tower
uh and a handful of buildings that don't
exist in regular
new york that don't exist in the world
of new york that
uh you know reality new york they only
exist in
marvel spider-man new york all right
i've messed up apparently and i'm gonna
skip a cinematic
one more time i accidentally exited the
mission so please excuse me while i do
this
unfortunately again real quick uh
there's only a few of these in the game
i should note there's
there's only so many sections of
manhattan
that you have to unlock using this so
this is not something you're going to
spend a lot of time doing
so yeah another question about whether
or not you can use spidey senses
uh and you can you can only in the
fights though uh spidey senses
exclusively exist
as a means of uh allowing spider-man to
like parry around uh it's part of the
the fighting system i actually can show
you right now
because i have to redo the fight because
i somehow accidentally abandoned the
mission i was on so please excuse that
um but you'll see in this fight that
when an enemy goes to punch me
uh i'll have a moment where there's like
a halo that appears around spider-man's
head
that's white initially and then purple
and when it turns purple if you press
the circle button the dodge button you
dodge you you execute what is called a
perfect dodge
and that uh stuns the enemy essentially
for a moment
um and so yeah there is uh a spider
sense and it's used in a
i think a smart way so you can see that
that like sense around his head that's
appearing during the fight
and you can see that since i did it at
exactly the right moment he
web slings them and they're stuck there
trying to get stuff off their face
looking like they got a head crab on
from half-life uh
and uh yeah it's a really useful way of
turning fights into something that feels
like rhythmic
almost uh you see those and you see
these
uh these kind of pop-ups where you can
get these instant kills like i just did
there
uh and it turns fights into a means of
like i'm kind of like dancing all over
these guys basically uh which is a lot
of fun
and makes it uh it makes fighting really
fun the fighting gets much more
complicated as the game goes on but it's
like
by 10 hours in by five hours in you feel
like
an absurdly powerful spider-man
essentially uh so there's another crime
in progress so it's trying to teach me
about
these other my other use of spidey sense
i guess is that i can
while fling around as spider-man i can
push in the right thumb stick uh r3 if
you
if you are so well versed uh and it
shows me stuff in the nearby
neighborhood so it showed me that there
was a crime nearby
and so i'm able to go take care of it
looks like a snitch is being harassed
here
i've heard snitches get stitches and so
we should make sure that she doesn't get
nice stitches
oh there's questions about suits it
sounds like
uh so corey off in the control room
tells me there's people asking about
suits
and there are a lot of suits in this
game they have not been introduced at
this point in the game yet so i will
show them later on
i was intentionally saving it for later
on because it's
pretty spoilery that's a lot of the
unlocks in the game are these suits
so you can see right now i'm wearing a
kind of traditional spider-man suit
red and blue spider-man on the back that
kind of thing
later on though you can unlock lots of
different suits like the spider-man noir
suit
or the spider-man 2099 suit
or all sorts of other stuff there is a
lot of them
and they all offer unique powers uh each
one
kind of unlocks its own unique power and
then you can you don't have to use that
suit to use that power
uh you can pair those powers however you
want
uh so i'm sorry i'm getting i'm getting
murdered
um so it's hard to
try to fight these bad guys and talk at
the same time sorry everybody
uh so yeah the suits are really useful
and are really cool they're more than
just dress up they offer a means of
unlocking special powers
that are fun and offer a lot of
customization
um so i'm going to tap to web strike
and so this is introducing these guys
called brutes that big dude right there
you see
everybody else is kind of small that guy
hits way harder than everybody else
but he can get uh stung by the web just
like anybody else
and you can lock him up with the web
just like that as well
and so i got to do that it's trying to
teach me how to do that
and i'm also getting beat up by other
people you'll notice other people are
not waiting for your fight to end they
will keep hitting you they don't care
you can also notice that spider-man kind
of
runs all over the place if i'm if i keep
tapping on stuff
he will keep going after dudes he is not
he does not get bored but you also learn
later on how to do
lots of other stuff like what i just did
there where i used a web to pull me
towards the enemy
there's also these instances of kind of
qtes i would say quick time events where
you have to do something
relatively quickly responsively and so
in this instance i'm moving the left
thumb stick into the circle on the
screen and then pressing the r1 button
to stop this this guy from uh
holding this woman hostage so i pull the
gun away i pull him away and then i
punch
him in the face and that's the end of
that mission
um she's appreciative there's a lot of
these these are
somewhat generic there's sometimes their
drug deal sometimes there's
a hostage situation where somebody's
taken a hostage sometimes they're
kidnappings we used to chase a car
but these kind of mix up the action
they're optional you can choose whether
or not you want to engage with them
while you're going around the world
they're separate from the main story
missions though which
are varied there's lots of different
stuff you're doing in main story
missions
uh so somebody asked if there are any
type of missions that bring the avengers
in
the avengers building is in the world
dr strange's building is in the world
i have not seen any avengers
after what i think is at least 75
through the game if not more i would not
be super surprised if that any of them
made an appearance there are certainly
lots of references
to other superheroes there's references
to daredevil
um there's a spider-man suit that i
believe was created by
uh tony stark uh i think it's called
like the stark suit
um and that's i mean he's iron man so
like
there's avengers stuff but i don't
believe there are avengers
straight up appearing in the game i
don't know for sure though and also
would be totally unsurprised if there
was something
of note there is an avengers game being
made a
aaa avengers game is in the works
currently uh i believe square enix
is the one publishing it and crystal
dynamics is the one making it crystal
dynamics of course the folks behind
tomb raider um uh i believe
i believe that is all the case but
there's definitely an avengers aaa
avengers game being made
so i don't know i think there's some
weirdness though also with the fact that
sony as far as i know owns the rights to
spider-man
i don't i don't know i don't the long
and short is i don't know for certain
that the avengers aren't in this game
uh but i haven't seen them
excuse me while i fix my earpiece
so you can see it kind of does the
assassin's creed far cry thing where you
unlock these things and it shows you the
world around and it shows you some stuff
that you might want to go get
there's these backpacks there's like i'm
looking at this beam of light for
instance
right now that's a backpack you can go
pick uh pick up let's actually run go
pick that up real quick and i can give
you an example of what i'm talking about
it's one of the many collectibles in
this game
and it's uh
a small thing but it's something for
fans right so i pick up this backpack
uh peter parker as spider-man in high
school he
the the story you can see here is that
in high school he hid these backpacks
all over new york city
and they basically contain like mementos
of various past spider-man things
so these are very uh fan centric things
um so you can see there's tons of them
all over the city there's
50 some of them or 80 something like
that i can't remember how many
but they are uh are pretty neat
uh let's see if i can
i can't i can't actually look what's in
the backpack yet no
there we go press the view so this is
from
peter parker's first date with mary jane
uh mary jane is in this game
as is aunt may they make appearances
later on
uh mary jane being peter parker's uh
ex in this game but love interest in
general uh
and uh on aunt may being his uh his aunt
who takes care of him because his
parents are not uh with him
uh so there's a there's another thing
nearby i could do that
or i could stop the robbery uh which is
the
where's the yellow mark in the world i'm
looking for
i guess i guess that's what i'm doing
stopping the robbery all right i'm gonna
go do that
so you can see this this here is the
entrance to the
brooklyn bridge let's say brooklyn
bridge
corey can you fact check that for me
open the safe do it
oh so one question we've got another
question here uh this question
is from i'm not sure uh but
the question is uh a smart one uh in
grand theft auto you can do lots of
stuff driving around
uh calling people to get together and
hanging out with them and uh
wondering what else you can do in this
game besides fighting crime and swinging
around
uh there's collection stuff there's
traversal stuff so there are some
missions where you
are tasked with either like solving
environmental problems like
smog or testing water stuff uh
in the world uh it's i'm intentionally
minimizing it so that i don't have to
explain the whole thing
but the long and short is that they are
like these uh
challenges where you're swinging through
the world and you have to swing through
specific objects in the world
and all this other kind of stuff it's
it's uh
it's intentionally a a kind of
platforming challenge basically to use
the swinging in the game for something
other than uh
just for fun um so there's those kind of
challenges
there's finding stuff there are puzzles
to go solve if you want to go do more
puzzles
uh so there's not like i'm gonna go play
pool
with my friend kind of stuff like there
is in grand theft auto
but a lot of grand theft auto i feel
like is making fun
for yourself right it's it's causing a
bunch of crime and then escaping the
cops
um and there's not that in this game
because you are spider-man right like
you can't hurt people
actually in a hilarious move if i want
to go try to punch people right now
you'll you'll notice spider-man given
like the thumbs up and waving
i'm pressing the punch button right now
and he does this
so you can't actually punch anyone
or drive through them you can however
wave
so your punch button becomes a wave
button also people in the world react to
you you can go like take photos with
them sometimes
sometimes people ask for high fives uh
yeah and there's lots of color there's
lots of little new york city color like
these
new york hot dogs maybe you've heard of
them
uh we've got a question from marcus
johnson
and what does marcus johnson have to say
okay so the question is if the open
world is limited strictly to
manhattan or if you can uh jump on the
bridge and head over to brooklyn
uh and the answer is sadly no you cannot
you can't go to queens you can't go to
staten island you can't go to the bronx
and you cannot go to brooklyn
despite the fact that the brooklyn
bridge and the manhattan bridge are both
in this game
um i'll actually give you an example of
what happens when i try swinging to
to brooklyn uh because it's uh
unfortunate you can go in the water i
will say that i wouldn't
suggest going in the water in real life
on the edge of manhattan but you could
you could go into the east river
i wouldn't suggest it so here i am on
the bridge
you can see that there's there's more
bridges in the distance
another bridge there bridge bridge just
like in real life
and you can see some of brooklyn you can
see some of downtown brooklyn over there
and you can see some of the beginning of
queens and
and upper upper brooklyn and you can
jump to this water
but let's see what happens if i try
swinging
it'll just uh well in this instance i
have a mission going on so i'm going to
return to the mission
but the same thing would happen if i
didn't have a mission it essentially
says
you're leaving the playable area you
have to return and it spins you around
uh and so that's the unfortunate truth
so you can see
some of uh brooklyn in the distance or
queens there's a couple of buildings you
can climb to that you can get
really good views of uh all of all of uh
new york city
uh from from uh
you know the the bottom of of manhattan
all the way out to staten island and
brooklyn but uh
you can't go there unfortunately um so
you can see i'm kind of nearing downtown
manhattan here i'm
i guess like uh i don't know i don't
even know where
this would be i guess like kind of
housed in e uh but
along the east edge of manhattan um and
you can see boats out there and
and whatever else and they do a pretty
good job modeling it you can see uh
that looks like governor's island there
and then there's the statue of liberty
is past these buildings over here uh so
they they do model
all that stuff but you can't actually go
to any of it unfortunately
um so yeah this is manhattan uh this
game is is definitely set in manhattan
and models manhattan but it uh you
should not expect to
uh go to all of manhattan and you should
not like you can't go to
the heights for instance if for any any
new york city
folks out there any new yorkers out
there um
but you can go as high as like upper
harlem basically
central park is also there and and
it exists and we'll go there i'm going
to complete this mission and then we can
just do some free swing around the city
i'll go from
harlem all the way to the bottom and if
there's anything in particular you want
to see you know if there's a place that
you guys really want to check out
i'm happy to go check that out um but
uh yeah we're in it a lot of the game
though i i think i'm aiming to kind of
represent this game more than anything
else like i don't want to show a ton of
story uh or a ton of dialogue a lot
of what you're gonna be doing in this
game is
you know it's a it's a spider-man
simulator for lack of a better word
there's a lot of uh
beating up dudes in stylish ways a lot
of snark
so much snark and uh swinging
around as a spider-man you know and you
can just run up buildings
you'll see yeah yeah yeah i can see i
can see it
all right uh so we've got one more
question it sounds like uh
what is the story of the game and is it
related to the comic books or
the uh marvel comic book universe uh
the answer is well i'm not 100 certain
how it relates to the
movies or the marvel cinematic universe
or
the any particular threads from the
comic book
i know that it certainly takes in
various elements of modern spider-man
so i'm not spoiling anything by saying
that uh
i believe his name is miles he's uh one
of the newer spider-man
men that was introduced at some point he
appears in this game
he's not as spider-man but he's in the
game
the main thrust of the story is that
there is
a bad guy to take down uh in the
in the trailers for the game they've
shown that the main bad guy
is a gentleman named martin lee um
he's as far as i know from the comic
books as well
um but if i'm being perfectly honest i
have not read spider-man comic books uh
at very least
in over 15 years so i cannot tell you
for certain if there is a particular
thread this takes from as far as i know
it is a completely new story
that is based in the modern world of
batman of batman of
spider-man so
basically the the answer is like kind of
it takes inspiration i think from modern
spider-man but it isn't necessarily
directly a story that was told in the
comics or in
uh the movies um and so you can see
there's some iconic
stuff that you'll just notice while
you're while you're going around right
so
uh this gorgeous church here and uh this
is union square
um but it's been changed a lot like it's
not exactly what union square
uh would be um in real life
uh so union square is uh
much larger and as far as this maybe i'm
wrong maybe this is nine
square no this is definitely union
square so uh yeah this is it's just not
very big
uh the way that the bottom is laid out
here is not exactly what
times square looks like that giant
church is not there
in it as far as i know uh so you know
there's some
there's some differences for sure um
also forgive me if that's just i'm
pretty sure that that's union square
they'll look like you can swear
and we've got washington square park
over here yeah that was union square
because we're this close to the
washington square park
um so washington square park pretty
large
but not uh huge the arctic triumph much
smaller much less impressive
be found in the middle good but you know
i don't see anybody playing
uh drums i don't see anybody trying to
sell me uh
sell me weed weed in uh 20 bags i don't
see any of the
the telltale signs of washington square
park um
anyway anyway funny jokes aside uh let's
go to this mission
um
it certainly is beautiful i will say
that uh
just you know the sun setting against
the buildings
and the reflection of things and it's a
good looking game
uh i again apologize for the quality of
the stream i know the stream is not
super high quality right now
we're going to work on improving that in
the future so
all right
you can see the high line here
we're going to
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see who we're going to talk to here i'm
going to probably jump
out here in just a second and load up a
different save
so we can see some stuff later in the
game and see some of the other suits
um and uh all that good stuff and we're
gonna wrap pretty soon also i should i
should point out this is not something
that uh
i'm gonna quit out of the game we're
gonna that's totally fine
um we're gonna probably keep these get
kind of these playthroughs to an
hour-ish depending on what you guys want
to see on on
on what there is to show of any
particular games if you have any
particular games that you'd love to see
in the upcoming months
uh let us know let us know in the
comments let us know in the uh
in the questions during the the live
game itself um
that would be that would be great we
would love to know what you'd love to
see expect major stuff right like expect
red dead redemption 2 uh call of duty
shadow of the tomb raider battlefield 5
all that good stuff
we'll be hitting all the major marks but
if there's anything in particular you
really want to see
i'd love to know um yeah these
these uh this is our first first shot at
gaming insider right here today
uh but we'll have many of these coming
up next friday we'll be doing shadow of
the tomb raider with my colleague kevin
uh and uh i'm excited to see what that
game looks like it looks really cool
so this is my save from way later in the
game
uh you can see that spider-man is
wearing a different suit with a big
white spider on it and he's got these
pretty swanky shoes and we can jump into
the menu here
and look through some of the suits so
far um i've got a decent amount of them
unlocked
you can see there's what 5 10 15
25 26 different suits plenty of suits
several of them look pretty similar
classic suit versus the advanced suit
not that different
same thing with the classic suit
repaired or the stark suit which is the
one i believe tony stark must have made
for for for peter parker i assume
i don't i don't know please tell me in
the comments but there's a bunch of
other ones here i'm not going to go
through every one of them because i
don't want to spoil all of them
but you can see that there's a ton of
different ones here and they all offer
unique powers
that i think is the most interesting
thing actually is that they each offer
a power that's unlocked that you can
use with that suit but you can use any
suit with it the suit is
completely cosmetic but each cosmetic
suit unlock comes with something that's
meaningful to gameplay that you can then
swap into other suits
and that's really cool so like in the
one i'm using right now is called spider
bro
it's a spider drone that electrocutes my
enemies it is very useful
um and these kind of work on a cooldown
so i can use it and then it hurts
enemies for
a couple of minutes it disappears and
then many minutes later it recharges and
i can deploy it again
there's lots of other ones here there's
like a web blossom where spider-man
leaps into the air and sprays webs at
everybody
there's one that makes you much more uh
sneaky and quiet so that enemies won't
alert other enemies
uh when you started fighting them a
bunch of different stuff
uh and they are uh really cool um i i
think that those are really great
um so here we are at the bottom
manhattan i'm gonna just run over to the
new trade center which should be
pretty close to where we are right now
uh it's
in real life bizarrely right next to
where we are
like a block away so how about that
so where the heck is the trade center it
should be the tallest building here
i can also give you a quick look at the
map at this point in the game
there's the trade center
hmm
flying around cool it
pretty tall pretty tall building
and right from the beginning you can do
all this the the goal of this game
from the developers that they stated is
that they wanted you to feel like a
very competent spider-man right from the
beginning a spider-man that was at the
height of his powers
who really understood what he was doing
wasn't just new to the experience
uh whatever whatever so this spider-man
feels like a tough guy spider-man for
lack of a better words he's got all his
powers he's able to do whatever
you expect him to be able to do
essentially and so from here you can see
the entire city basically the
the distance here the entirety of this
island is where you can go
and let me see if i can grab photo mode
here i can probably zoom in maybe
no maybe not
there we go
um so there's there's a camera option in
this game you can take photos of
landmarks
it's another collectible thing it's a
small thing
but yeah you can essentially see that
the entirety of manhattan
jersey along the west side brooklyn and
queens along the east side
and the bronx to the north staten island
to
the distant south
yeah so it is all of new york city it's
just limited in terms of where you can
go
but it's honestly incredibly impressive
it's been amazing swinging around new
york city as spider-man
as a new york resident um i think it
would probably be pretty cool also as a
non-new york resident but it's got a
special
uh something for somebody who lives here
i
it's it's been pretty amazing just
swinging around the city that i
i know so well and live in um yeah so
that's that is spider-man for the
playstation 4.
uh if you've missed any of the stream
and want to know more we
we jumped in earlier uh about an hour
ago and this will be archived uh so you
can check it out there
we'll be back next friday with shadow of
the tomb raider another brand new game
uh with my colleague kevin so please
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