Marvel's Spider-Man: The Heist
OpenCritic Rating
Top Critic Average
Critics Recommend
Marvel's Spider-Man: The Heist Media
Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Heist – DLC 1 Teaser | PS4
Critic Reviews for Marvel's Spider-Man: The Heist
Black Cat's intro is great, but the first DLC episode feels more like a first act than satisfying, standalone content.
Spider-Man's first episode is fantastic in almost all the same ways that the main game is.
Black Cat's DNA was already spliced into side activities in Spider-Man so her appearance makes sense, even if the "to be continued" ending is a bummer (I guess that eliminates the idea of further DLCs being standalone). It's not the most explosive beginning, but it does feel like more of a natural extension rather than a tacked-on thing. As does the possible baby mamma drama.
A fun DLC that doen't make anything new, but still entertain during the 3 hours that it lasts.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
While The Heist has a strong story—or at least the start of one—it doesn't fill out the world or give Peter any additional gameplay growth. Mary Jane gets another boring stealth segment. There's a single requisite set of collectibles. Added suits give visual flair only. Embracing Peter's human side as he swings through the city was always a strong point of Marvel's Spider-Man, but I had hoped the DLC episodes would begin to improve on some of the weaknesses in the main game. Instead, The Heist makes them more apparent than ever. Perhaps the complete The City That Never Sleeps arc should have been released as single robust expansion, rather than three piecemeal episodes that are just giving us more Spidey at a trickle.
More than anything, The Heist leaves you begging for more, and I guess that's what the idea was. It's just enough more Spider-Man to get you back into the swing of things, but it leaves you hanging with an abrupt ending and minimal new side content. But at only $10, it's worth it to get back into Insomniac's lovingly created New York.
The Heist is a good bite-sized morsel of content that kept my attention throughout, and I'm excited to see where the rest of these chapters go. I just hope the Insomniac team can keep things interesting throughout.
