Peter Parkour Parker has all sorts of tricks up his sleeve to traverse New York City in style. You don't need to just swing from one building to another in a simple arc. Put some flair into it! Spider-Man encourages you to take his acrobatic talents and apply them to your movement whenever possible, rewarding you with XP for doing so. Because when you're free falling ten stories, why not make it fun with some front flips thrown in? Just look at how awesome it is in action. Insomniac did good. VPN Deals: Lifetime license for $16, monthly plans at $1 & more You can unlock even more skills to spice up your movement through Spider-Man's skill trees, particularly the Webslinger tree. One such skill called Quick Zip allows Peter to "web zip a second time without losing any altitude." The more you unlock, the more variety you'll have in your swinging. Back to school Peter's been Spider-Man for several years now, meaning he's well past spending his high school days skipping class to take out a few bad guys. When he was in such a rush, he'd end up leaving behind his backpacks all around the city attached to rooftops and alleyway walls with his trusty web-slinger. Luckily for you, they're still there. These serve as fun collectibles to go and find, but they also grant you more XP and items that give you a deeper look into Peter's early days as our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. If you're getting tired of beating up thugs, go out and search the city for these. Spectacular heights You'll want to take down bases and research posts early to earn tokens. Don't save these for your endgame excursions as you clean up loose ends on the map. In order to find these, you can activate any of the many towers you'll come across that shine beacons at nearby activities and important locations. Climbing to the tops of buildings certainly rewards you with beautiful vistas of the city that never sleeps, but it also serves a functional purpose within the game as well. Tokens are essential for unlocking new suits and upgrading Peter's gadgets. Even if you happen to love the look of his standard suit that you begin the game with, don't settle for it. Though each suit has a particular enhancement that unlocks with it, these abilities aren't actually locked to specific suits. This means that the Spider-Bro ability that comes with Stark's Spidey-suit can be used when you don any of the other suits as well. Insomniac gives players the best of both worlds: form and function. No more choosing one over the other. Which brings us to my next tip: Crowd control<doc-sep>Spider-Man isn’t usually a confusing game, but any game will a skill tree begs the question: Which are the best skills? In this guide, we’ll offer some advice. Which skills to buy first Skills aren’t complicated, especially at the beginning of the game. You’ll need to unlock the first skill in each category — Innovator, Defender, Webslinger — to unlock the skills underneath. And the simple truth is that two of the first three skills you unlock in each column are among the most useful in Spider-Man PS4. Web Throw (Innovator) allows you to hold Triangle and “grab and throw webbed and electrified enemies.” This is the most basic form of crowd control in Spider-Man, and you’ll use it hundreds (thousands?) of times. allows you to hold Triangle and “grab and throw webbed and electrified enemies.” This is the most basic form of crowd control in Spider-Man, and you’ll use it hundreds (thousands?) of times. Perfect Dodge (Defender) allows you to evade and enemy’s attack if you time it just right. Check out our Spider-Man PS4 Perfect Dodge guide to learn how to get it right every time. (There’s a trick to it.) The best (and our favorite) Spider-Man PS4 skills It’s overwhelmingly likely that, by the time you finish Spider-Man, you’ll unlock all of the skills available to you. Thing is, there are a lot of skills, which means that there’s a lot to remember (and a lot to forget). So we’ve put together a short list of what we consider to be the best (which is also a way of saying our favorite) skills. They mostly exist in the beginning to the middle of each skill tree, so if these sound good to you, follow the path down each branch to unlock them.<doc-sep>Screenshot : Sony ( Spider-Man ) You might have heard there’s a new Spider-Man game out today. You might have also heard it’s very good. For those who have decided to try out this little old game for themselves, I have some guidance to offer. Advertisement Spider-Man is a surprisingly approachable game, but beneath the surface there are a lot of systems at work with little details that can be easy to overlook. I’ve spent around 40 hours with the game so far, and during my time in Insomniac Games’ Manhattan, I’ve learned a thing or two. Below, young web slingers, you’ll find the most helpful tips I wish I’d known from the start. Descramble police towers whenever you’re nearby. Spider-Man’s map is broken up into a handful of regions, just like the real Manhattan. Each of these areas houses a police station with a radio tower you can descramble to de-fog the surrounding parts of the map. Of all the game’s side-activities and collectibles, these are the most important, because they’re key to locating the rest. Early focusing on descrambling the towers, all of which sit atop NYPD buildings, is also a great way to get acquainted with the game’s web slinging. They also become fast travel points later in the game, at which point you’ll be glad you completed so many of them. Don’t try to get all the collectibles at once. There are backpacks to collect, landmarks to take pictures of with Peter Parker’s camera, and a host of other activities to complete like stopping nearby crimes, taking down enemy hideouts, and completing little science projects for your friend, Harry Osborn. This stuff is spread all over the map, and each type of activity gives you a unique type of token for completing it. An easy way to avoid feeling overwhelmed by them all is to do a few things on your way to each new story mission. Not only will this give you a diverse smattering of tokens that can be used to unlock and upgrade Spider-Man’s suits and gadgets, it also provides a change of pace and makes it so by the end of the game you’re not stuck with just one or two types of these missions left on the map. For example, I left most of the Osborn science missions for the end of the game, and mainlining all of those in a row quickly became a slog. Don’t skip the Challenge missions. Some of the most fun and difficult side-missions in the game are Challenges that revolve around showing off all your combat and platforming skills. You’ll get bronze, silver, or gold ratings on each depending on how well you do, and the number of Challenge tokens you receive will vary accordingly. It can feel grindy to keep trying for the gold, but the number of tokens you get is multiples higher and well worth it. Many of the best suits and upgrades require a handful of them, and there’s nothing worse than wanting to try one of them only to realize you’re broke. Advertisement This little guy has saved my ass more times than I can remember. Screenshot : Kotaku ( Spider-Man ) Web Bombs are your best friend. Spider-Man has a lot of gadgets, but Web Bombs are by far the best. When launched at an enemy they web up everything in the immediate vicinity, and the effect gets stronger with a bigger blast radius the more you upgrade them, which you’ll want to do. In addition to being extremely useful for crowd control, the Web Bombs can be invaluable for quickly subduing small groups of enemies during stealth missions without alerting everyone else. Advertisement Web enemies when they’re on the ground or near walls to cocoon them there. If you just keep spraying enemies with webs they’ll get stunned but will eventually rebound and come back to the fight. To subdue them for good in the most Spidey-ass way possible, make sure you’ve knocked them to the ground or near another object before you web them. Advertisement Stay in the air. Spider-Man is at his strongest and most versatile when he’s jumping around and swinging through the air. The key to winning fights and also having fun with the superhero is never staying on the ground for long. Pop down, punch some guys, web some other guys, then swing back into the air to another part of the fight. Advertisement Sneak into enemy bases to start out. In addition to the stealth missions in the main game, there are base missions scattered throughout Manhattan that revolve around clearing a zone of all the bad guys inside. While you can go in swinging, it’s better to take your time sneaking up on individual enemies instead of alerting the whole base. It’s a good opportunity to get the lay of the land before engaging the later waves of enemies that will start coming out and it’s also a great way to see all of the unique animations for Spider-Man’s silent web takedowns. Advertisement Pressing square at an enemy while hidden up in the rafters or on an I-beam will tie them up and keep them out of the way. Screenshot : Kotaku ( Spider-Man ) Prioritize these three suit upgrades. There are over a dozen mods you can unlock for Spider-Man’s suit in the game, which has room to equip three at a time. While you should definitely play around with all of them to find a mix that suits your personal play style, I’ve found the best three by far to be Combat Analyzer, Long Range Scanner, and Webbed Striker. Combat Analyzer increases the XP you get, which is very helpful early on when you’re trying to level up to increase the size of your health bar and unlock new parts of the skill tree. Long Range Scanner expands the radius of the R3 Spidey sense which shows the location of nearby collectibles and lets you see enemies through walls. Especially in some of the larger stealth sections, being able to track enemy movements from a distance is extremely helpful. Finally, Webbed Striker gives you extra focus whenever you web an enemy, including with Web Bombs. Your focus meter is what you use to heal and also execute instant takedowns, and since you’ll always be webbing enemies during the natural flow of a fight, getting bonus focus is a huge perk. Advertisement Invest in the web slinging skill tree early on. The skill tree is broken into three sections. There are cool abilities in all of them, but the Web Slinging tree to the far right on the menu screen is where most of your traversal abilities are. Since you spend the majority of the game shooting a web at something to get from point A to point B, it’s worth having all of the maneuvers as early as possible. The most notable ones are Quick Zip, which lets you use the zipline web twice in a row, Quick Recovery, which lets you press X after rolling to immediately lunge forward, and Air Tricks which lets you do small stunts while falling through the air. The last one is more for fun than anything else. While you get a small amount of XP for holding circle and triangle to do tricks in the air, the real purpose of the skill is just to look extra stylish while falling through the air, which you will spend more than half the game doing. Advertisement It’s best to start by unlocking some of the skills on the Webslinger tree. Screenshot : Kotaku ( Spider-Man ) Unlock the Homecoming suit. There are a lot of suits in this game. Some of them look really cool. Some of them don’t. Almost all of them come with special suit powers that, once unlocked, can be equipped to whichever suit you prefer to spend your time fighting crime in. The Homecoming suit, inspired by last year’s movie, is by far one of the most useful and versatile thanks to its Spider Buddy power.<doc-sep>
Marvel's Spider-Man is available now for PlayStation 4 and offers a great mix of deep and simplistic gameplay. Players can enjoy a two-button fighting style that allows Spidey to punch and launch webs at his enemies, but the addition of skills, gadgets and suits offers everyone a variety of ways to play. We've compiled this guide of the major features players will need to understand when playing Marvel's Spider-Man. BASICS In Marvel's Spider-Man players will be able to swing, fight and explore NYC as the Webslinger. There are a lot of buttons and combinations that players must master to get the most out of the superhero. From swinging around New York City to fighting a group of thugs, players will face an overwhelming amount of controls to start. However, Insomniac Games does a good job of mapping out the PS4 so players will get used to the inputs very quickly. Here's an image of the PS4 controller with its inputs. TRAVERSAL Swinging, sprinting and climbing buildings all over New York City makes up a huge chunk of Spider-Man PS4. The basics of traversing the city include the R2 button, which allows Spidey to swing from buildings, trees and other structures. You can hold R2 when climbing a wall or on the street to sprint and parkour over objects. When swinging, tap the X button to zip forward. This gives Spider-Man a brief boost of speed, but does cause Spidey to lose momentum when swinging. The key to webslinging is knowing when to release the line for maximum momentum and always remembering that height=momentum=speed. Hold L2 to slow down time and aim. Spider-Man can shoot a web at certain ledges and holding L2 allows for players to swing up and across buildings faster. This technique is great for stealth missions. Tapping L3 will also allow for Spider-Man to get in a crouch position to perform Perch Takedowns easier. Here are some other techniques you can use when traversing New York City. ; Diving: Tap L3 to have Spider-Man dive toward the ground, this allows for Spidey to pick up speed allowing for faster swinging. Upside-Down : When wall-crawling on a ceiling, hold L2 and move the left stick down to have Spidey lower himself down with web to secure a more advantageous position. Air Tricks: once unlocked through the skills menu, Air Tricks can be performed in between web swings and boost experience points. Hold Circle and Triangle while moving the left stick in different directions to perform various tricks. FIGHTING There's plenty of fights in Marvel's Spider-Man and while the basics have players tapping Square a few times to perform combos, there are some other techniques to battling you'll want to know about. Air Combo: Holding the Square button will launch enemies into the air, allowing for a follow up combo. This is great if you find yourself surrounded or if you want to break through an enemy's block. Dodging: The Circle button allows for quick dodges. If you press Circle at just the right time, Spider-Man will perform a "perfect dodge" that will allow for Spidey to hit an enemy with web automatically or even take them out. Throwing Items: Holding the L1 + R1 button will have Spider-Man use his web to toss items at enemies. Webstrike: Tapping Triangle will allow Spider-Man to hit an enemy with a line of web and pull himself close to perform a combo. Skills can be learned that will allow Spider-Man to disarm weapons if Triangle is held. Slipping Underneath: Some enemies have shields that can't be broken through, by tapping Circle and Square, Spider-Man will slip underneath an enemy to attack them from behind. Finisher/Focus Bar: Spider-Man has a Focus Bar that builds up over time from performing combos. When it fills up to a certain point, Spider-Man will be able to unleash a finishing move that will one-shot an enemy. Tap Triangle and Circle to perform a finishing move when its prompted. Tap down on the control pad to heal some health. Gadget: Players can tap the R1 button to use a gadget. Holding down L1 will open up Spidey's Gadget wheel. SUITS/UPGRADES As you make your way through the story and the side quests, Spider-Man will level up and gain points that can be used to learn new skills. Players will also receive resources by completing certain tasks or missions that can be used to build gadget upgrades and new suits.