Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Remember when Arkham Knight came out on PC and people considered it to be pretty much unplayable? This is worse. This is by far the least stable port I've ever personally played. Ten patches in and it still runs like this? Atrocious. (And yes, I know about the dstorage and dstoragecore thing--even if you do that, it still runs terribly.)

After 10 GODDAMN PATCHES, this game is playable for my PC at the lowest settings, ill admit i don't have a good PC But for anyone else wanting to buy the game now At least make sure you have a good PC so the game runs at a stable framerate (By which i mean so the cutsences don't lag, that seems to be a issue still) Do i recommend this game? Yes if you have a decent enough PC and don't mind playing at the lowest settings and don't care about the cutsences If you have a good PC, maybe fiddle with the settings at least a little bit just incase, but besides allat, this game is finally considered.. playable. Some issues still need to be fixed The City impacts the framerate quite a bit so it tries to freeze the game alot so it loads the surroundings alot, this can get pretty annoying And cutsences are still stupidly broken, ill admit its hallarious sometimes but for someone who actually wants to stay imersed with this games story no matter how many times i replay the game, this is very fustrating.

‼️‼️𝐃𝐎 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐘 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐍 ༻STEAM DECK༺‼️‼️ 📌Why? Because it lags even at the lowest settings. I’ve tried everything to fix the lag it’s the game that’s too powerful. 📌Can’t you just play the game with a little lag? The answer to that question is NO. If you want to enjoy the game and have fun you’d rather play it on PC or PS5 📍𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑: I have all the story games on PS5 and i loved all the spider-man games! I bought the first spider-man game this winter on PC just to play it on STEAM DECK and it worked as smooth as butter but the second one it just lags. 🔗How is the game on PC? It runs smoothly you will not encounter any problems! I might refund it only because i bought it to play it on STEAM DECK. 💎I have played and finished all the spider-man games💎

While it is verified on Steam deck, it runs awful. I played Spiderman and Spiderman: MM with no issues, but this game needs soooo much work. The constant stuttering even on low settings is abysmal. DO NOT RECOMMEND ON STEAM DECK.

Spider-Man (or Spider-Men) 2 is a solid game. The story is even more bombastic and Spidery in nature than the 1st game (and Miles Morales expansion pack game). Performance, as of the time of writing, feels fine on Modern hardware (Intel Ultra Core 275hx + RTX 5080 laptop) with all graphics settings set to max, including Ultimate raytracing and DLSS 4 Super Resolution and Frame Generation. FPS: is above 240Hz and input lag is around 30-40ms. Not sure what else to say, except play it. Oh and don't install it on a SATA SSD. Install it on an NVME Gen3 at least otherwise you will get constant loading "freezes", showed by the loading animation in the bottom right corner.

Do not buy this game since its unplayable even at the lowest settings with a 4090 and 7800 X3D. Stutters like crazy, audio issues, and lags like crazy.

unplayable even on my 5090, constant stuttering no matter what settings i changed.

I managed to play what should have been the first 5 minutes in 35 min and got stuck in a building doing the first fight. besides that it runs very poorly and it had to load every 10 sek. In the cutscenes the sound was delayed and characters Keep pupping up that was not suposed to be there on top and inside other characters. 1/10 would not recommend.

I and extremely upset at the fact that any of us have to come to the comments and comment on how messed up this game is. It’s disheartening to have bought this game from a beloved series that got it right in the previous games. I literally bought this game an hr ago. It took 1 hour to download on to my steam deck, once I got it booted up and started the new game I saw nothing but glitches as soon as Miles runs back to the room I see nothing but floating heads. I decided that I would close it out and restart it, as soon as I got into the opening web slinging sequence it was so glitchy, the buildings were grainy the hair is see through, it’s glitching inbetween frames whips swinging. Having played both the Spider-Man and Miles within the last few months on the steam deck I can say that they run incredibly smooth and are worth buying and replaying. Only buy this once it goes into deep discount. Please save yourself the headache

It is an amazing game, love the story, combat etc. But its buggier than Australia.

First run - gfx artefacts, got to first sandman fight game crashed Rerun - game crashed on load of save. 3rd run game crashed before menu. Refund.

Honestly the worst game I have played in awhile, its not even the story or mechanics all of that is perfect its the game optimization on pcs even people with BEEFED pcs cant handle it on low settings If this game was optimized it would be soooooo much better and its not even that hard so why are they trying so hard not to fix what the main issue of the game is? 2/10

Refunded this shit, runs like ass and looks way worse than spiderman remastered. It has some bad UI issues so even when i downscaled my resolution from 4k to 1080p the UI would go off screen.

Game absolutely should not be Deck verified. When the game isn't crashing, Spider-man looks like a censored Sim regardless of settings. Really sad about this, hope the game can be better optimized in the future, but for now it's not worth it.

This game is amazing but It is not worth buying until they fix all the issues with running the game I have no clue how they messed this port up. the other games run perfectly fine but I'm certain not even top of the line PC's could run this game smoothly with the way it lags, glitches textures and so on. I strongly suggest saving your money And playing the other Spiderman games and/or playing the batman games instead.

No matter what you do or try, the performance of this game is absolutely awful.

i have a pretty good pc and this game preforms horribly, looks awful and half the models are constantly unloaded. Do not buy this on pc

Moment-to-moment gameplay is fantastic. Combat is super-fun with the notable exception that the targeting is super wonky and can be frustrating. As with the first game, just swinging around nyc alone is fantastic. I 100%ed every zone and had fun during most of the time that I could play the game. The problem is that I spent a ton of time trying to get the game to run rather than playing the game. The technical state of the game is simply unacceptable. Frequent crashes, and the game would lock up on startup more often than not. The only fix was to restart my computer and hope it would work after that. Sometimes it would, sometimes it wouldn't. I tried verifying the files and fully reinstalling the game to no avail. Some days I just couldn't play the game at all. My hardware is more than up to snuff (when it runs, it runs well at fairly high settings with ray tracing). The story and dialogue are a big step down from the first game as well. I'm not offended by the politics or anything, but the writing and dialogue just feel like someone phoned it in. The first game was pretty good in this department, so it's disappointing to see them drop the ball here. Granted, if this were the only issue, the gameplay could still carry this one if it weren't for the technical issues. Despite the poor dialogue, the voice actors did a great job with what they had to work with. If the technical issues get patched out, this will 100% be worth a buy on sale, even if it is a bit of a step down from the first game , but until then I can't recommend it.

The gameplay in general is quite good but it needs to be optimised like hell. Forget buying this game if you are on a laptop. One major change I would really like to see is to disable auto apply the graphic settings. whenver I accidentaly increase the graphics, the game shuts down as it auto applies to a graphic preset which my laptop cant handle. But Insomniac doesnt seem to bother....

optimize your game better some of us don't have lots of internal space nor can we pay to get more bought it when it came out and still cant even play it smh was very excited for it to to come to pc and yet i still cant play it

game is still too buggy every 5 seconds the screen lags out or the cut scenes lag. still needs more work, by far the worst pc port of the spiderman series

i played both the first game and miles morales enjoyed both but this one feels good just like the other 2, however it is poorly optimized, the game freezes interupting gameplay, and the cutscenes are out of sync with the characters mouths

Would be great if the fps was stable. Sometimes its a solid 60fps. Others it drops causing hitching. I noticed my cpu reaching 90% on the odd occasion going through the city so clearly a cpu bottleneck, but shouldn't be like this on a i5 12600k, 16gb ddr5, rtx 5070. I noticed some random fps drops on the mj mission when peter goes sleep. I should be able to play this with rt, 1440p, high settings. £50 for this port is a disgrace. Because I have played for 20+hrs they won't refund me. Most of that time has been spent adjusting settings, but its a software issue. I also has issues with the last of us part 1 with a 3060 ti, but I still powered through to completion. Seems to be either fixed now or it is because of my new gpu. Gfx are as good as the ps4 last of us part 2, but couldn't run before. Thinki it was shaders, but spidey 2 seems even more rushed. If you expect to be paid for a product, at the very least finish it before release! Just been playing Doom the dark ages, which runs how a game on a decent pc should run. Maybe play this Sony so you can get an idea of how a video game should run. Ratchet and clank runs great, but only because my new gpu can handle the rt now. It looks great and is fun. I was really looking forward to playing spidey 2, but I will have to see if Sony can be bothered to fix the game that I have paid to play but can't. 50 POUND FOR A GAME THAT DON'T WORK AS IT SHOULD!!! Do better Sony! OPTIMISE YOUR PC PORTS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bro I booted up the game after 3 months, I get no sound, but like few seconds of it and its crackling. I exit the game, no longer hear anything on my pc at all. I restart my pc, now my left speaker on my headset is distorted. Someone please help.

MID REVIEW. JUUUUST MORE POSITIVE THAN NEGATIVE. GET ON SALE GET IT FOR THE GAMEPLAY, NOT THE STORY. YOU NEED AN NVME SSD AND A RELATIVELY POWERFUL CPU Man, what a sad waste of potential in a way. The quality of the cutscenes, animations and voice acting is fantastic, but once again its in the service of a mediocre story, that feels rushed and like it had pieces ripped off of it throughout development. Kraven's role is a mess and he goes out like a wet fart, this version of Venom had a lot of potential but the whole development is rushed and it feels mishandled. Miles' role in the story should have been far more minimal, his sidequests are ALL Woke fluff and filler that feels like a parody of itself, I'm not kidding, it's that bad. Every time his girlfirend appears on screen, I cringe. The desperation to install Miles and replace Peter is palpable and I hate it. The gameplay flows much better than the original, not just combat, but traversal and the fast travel system is impresisve even if I do miss the subways, and would have kept them as as joke option. MY only issue with combat remains that one enemy that you cant find to end the fight because they flew to one distant corner and stayed there killing the flow, but it is very satisfying. I do also believe upgrades to gadgets should be cheaper so players that dont like doing so much repetitive sidecontent can get more of a look at afuller powerkit. I still think most MJ sections are pointless (there's only one good one where she is chased by the Symbiote) but at least her equipment makes it more tolerable than the terrible stealth sections of the first game. They wasted Sandman and Mysterio on sideactivity fluff that I thought were going to have actual promise at the end but are just generic fights and a series of audilogs with a SUPER small cutscene at the end. At least Mysterio gets a boss fight after the quest (short and mid like the previous ones), they probably thought the opening covered Sandman, I wanted more. And seriously, I cant let go of how every single Miles sidequest is bullcrap. Mister Negative's story with Miles is also very mishandled, feels truncated, and could have been really good if it had more time to develop. Black Cat only has a cameo pretty much, another damned shame. I hope they didnt just assume they would get DLCs and then didnt. Spider-Sense and powers have been nerfed. MJ Literally reacts faster than Peter in a really stupid scene, both Spiders are surprised constantly, MJs gun hurts enemies more than spider-punches... The power scaling is a bit of a mess. If you can focus on the fun of the gameplay. and not pay much attention to the massive pile of wasted potential that is everything else, there is fun to be had, and despite the story problems, some set-pieces and sequences are really damn impressive. Like I said, I wish animation and presentation this good came with better writing. Insomniac are solid at what they do when they are not too busy virtue signaling. Get it on sale, dont waste too much time on the repetitive sideactivities that are ultimately not satifying, just do the Blue Peter Sidequests and you will have fun here. Now where's my damn actually good Mysterio game other than Shattered Dimensions or S2 for Ps2 As for the port, like the previous one, it's very cpu demanding (gpu too, but gamers are usually les equipped on the cpu side), but its plain worse. It scales decently to the low end, so long as you dont hope for high framerates or textures since its alsoa bit of a Vram hog. I appreciate it can scale to the steam deck, but you will probably want a consistent 60 with at least high textures and 1080p or more on a desktop and you will see cpu bound drops or gpu choke points regularly on many systems well within the recommended paramenters. Its much, much more expensive than on console. Someone even tested the game with equivalent settings on base ps5 vs a matching hardware pc and yeah, the port stutters and runs about half was well. Its not a great conversion. RT is prohibitive except for the super high end, which is a shame, but so is having high consitent framerates with no bad 1% drops. This might get better with patched, but you may need to use framegen as a clutch in some places. It scales down nicely to a compromised low, the high end might bruteforce it, (even if the 9800x3d can only get around 85fps before getting cpu bound) but the medium end is screwed. They need to keeeeep patching this one

Played this on release and never really had any big issues, always ran smoothly with the odd glitch once or twice, so I got lucky it seems (compared to others). I'm a big sucker for these open world movement games and loved the first instalment, and this one is simply more of the same fun. Gameplay was great, swinging around, fighting stuff, movement was very smooth, though I wasn't a fan of the gliding at first but it grew on me. With NG+ I went through the game 3-4 times until I had everything unlocked, even on the hardest difficulty it wasn't that tough. Side missions felt more varied compared to the previous game as well, less repetitive and more interesting. Main story is good, sometimes predictable and a bit too much filler but fine overall If you like the previous game or the Batman Arkham series this is a 100% recommend

its bad and poorly optimized..not recommend to buy even in sale. save your money for something better.

DO NOT get this game, it is extremely slow and glitchy. I got stuck under the map for the third mission and am unable to progress past it. They wouldn't even offer me a refund.

Spider-man 2 does everything Spider-man 1 did but more, more of the map, more suits and more in the story although you can notice where the game was rushed it was fun from the first time i played it on PS5 to now on PC. without getting into spoilers, the third act is rushed and feels like its jumped from 1-100 quick. swinging in-game has been made even better (somehow) and so has combat with new abilities making it feel great although i do miss the weapon wheel it was a good move to swap the two. i'm excited to see what insomniac do for spider-man 3 as they have left so much more story left to show and they leave many cliffhangers i only hope it doesn't get rushed like this one and if any DLC is planned is is not cancelled

During my total Gameplay ~2hrs, the game crashed 5/6 times. Product has been refunded by steam. In my experience, I do not recommend buying this game on PC...

Gameplay, combat, traversal, etc., slightly better and still fun. More cc abilities and less emphasis in the stealth (tbf not like the previous games had the greatest stealth to begin with) Story is kinda eh comparatively to the previous games with a lot of missed potential, cliches, and too many plots and characters to juggle, but still alright, kinda, I guess…. thank goodness for the skip puzzles and cinematic options. Performance on pc kinda eh, but playable [spoiler] funnest part on god though was when I got to play Venom and Venom everywhere, it was freaking spectacularly amazing [spoiler]

At-least the reviews on MH Wilds being not verified/Unsupported on deck is honest work, unlike this money grabbing corporate sickos that will fool you on buying this game just because they labeled it as a verified game on Steam Deck. !! REFUNDED !!

I came into this game really wanting to like it, really wanted to enjoy it. I'm not even white, but I felt so sad seeing how they humiliated Peter to make Miles and self insert Mary Jane look good in comparison. The disrespect Peter Parker got was just not fair. Mile's game didn't sell like Peter's did and unlike Miles in spiderverse movie. This Mile's was just not as well beloved. This game treated so many characters with no respect, I'm scared to see what they'll do in the third game.

After all theses updates the game just keeps crashing my rigs no potatoe should play this easily

Even months after the release of the port its filled with crashes and bugs this game is terribly optimized.

It's a beautiful movie. 5sec of cutscene for every sec of gameplay.

It's a shame, I was looking to play this game on my Z13 ROG, sadly this is the only game that doens't work. plays for a little bit and crashes the whole thing, needing to restart the laptop every single time... Sadly due to work couldn't get the refund in time, now I'm stuck with something I cannot play.

This game had more potential than the original, but they just abandoned it for no real reason? Simply does not make sense. The raw combat is flawless, could not ask for anything better. But once you look elsewhere, there's some big issues. At one point I got so good at the movement in this game that I would get to crimes before they fully loaded in, so I would have to stand around and wait for a bit before going there or else it would despawn. The combat does not make up for where it's lacking. The dlc could've been the saving grace this game needed. Suits? Boss fights? CARNAGE? Hell yeah! But they cancelled it before they could even show it to us.

Take all the things you hate from GTA 4, remove the crime and guns, put spiderman in and add a whole marvel cinematic. Sprinkle in spiderman gameplay here and there and give mj a tazer. That's spiderman 2. Basically it's a pool of slop you trudge through to collect suits that you won't really properly use until after you beat the main villains. The small time crooks are entirely too beefy and the hud is almost permanently obscurred by l1+r1. "Steamdeck verified" but has worse performance than saints row 3 remastered which isn't verified because "we can't find a suitable graphical setting that allows this game to run". The free roam areas where you stop petty stuff is fun, web swinging is fluid and I love the gliding mechanic. There is alot of good but it is weighed down by all the tedious piddly bullshit that waits around every corner.

cant even start the game. spent 29 minutes having this crash my pc before i decided its not even worth trying. cant believe a 4090 7950x build couldnt even get to the main menu. -5/10 thanks for wasting 20 mins of my life

Poorly optimized for pc. Every 5 seconds game freezes to load things in, even while playing on lowest settings. Cutscenes freeze randomly, then unfreeze after a couple of second. Besides all of the issues the story is really good, and I like the gameplay. Otherwise I would wait until they fix the optimization issues of this game before purchasing.

10 patches later still cant play it... runs like str8 dookie for AMD, ive tried to be patient but like bruh come on ima uninstall ts n play spiderman 1 that runs and looks way better then this horrible port that they had more then enough time to do properly but hey this is what we get in this modern gaming industry.

After reading all the reviews for this game I really wanted to give it a try. I really loved the first game and thought all the reviews were being dramatic. I tried to play the game and after about 25 minutes of gameplay I couldn't do it anymore. The game crashed 4 times! It's really a shame that the port is so bad because the start of the game was awesome but the visual glitches in the cinematics and the frequent crashes just make it unplayable. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME UNLESS YOU HAVE A TOP NOTCH PC!

i tried playing and the game wouldnt let me play it without crashing on the main menu but i really wanna play it because i love spiderman and ive seen others play

I'd wait till after the game is patched more. The game doesn't seem well optimised for handheld pc's at the moment. Got this on sale and thought reviews seemed good but noticed reviews with similar complaints about the game.

it is good quality but unfortunatley my pc struggles a bit whihc is not spider mans fault but my pc

The story is really grabbing, touching, and magnificent, It amazes me how much I like it, I would highly recommend this game to everybody and it is by far worth the 60/70 bucks

The story is amazing, my only problem is that is so unoptimized that the game is unplayable unless you have a super high end computer. I refunded my purchases, I’ll wait to see if they optimize it any further in the future to re buy it.

This was honestly such a fun game to play and I loved the whole story and gameplay, even if the ending didn't hit as hard as the 1st game the whole experience was so much fun. I will say I enjoyed the abilities in this one a lot more than what we had in the 1st game. However I won't lie, this game is still really poorly optimised. Despite me having a few versions higher graphics card than the recommended minimum, my whole playthrough was littered with bugs, and glitches such as sound effects and voice lines playing while the camera is frozen or failing to render the cutscenes in or showing T-posing models of the characters. I ended up having to pause it when I could to try and help it along with loading. The worst offenders are the chase sections as every one in the game made me have to close and reload the game as it was unplayable coming right off the cutscene leading into it. Overall a really fun game when it was working properly, but I wish it performed better so I could have an even better experience playing a refined version of such a great game.

Ok so they took some liberties with the story which is fine but sometimes it just makes no sense, Besides that little discrepancy the game is still fun, although the enemies are all basically the same and the moves are still pretty similar to previous games, Its a copy and paste that works.