It was the highlight of last week's Sony Showcase - and here's digitalfoundry with analysis and reaction to the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 gameplay trailer:
The highlight of Sony's 2023 PlayStation showcase was a 12-minute trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - but despite impressive gameplay, reactions to its graphics have been mixed. On the surface, we seem to be getting a similar look to prior Spider-Man titles without obvious new graphical techniques - but if we analyse the trailer's gameplay segments more closely, we can get a better sense of where the game's visuals are from a technical perspective.
Water rendering is another area where Insomniac has pushed the visuals considerably, with greatly improved water simulation and greater geometric density without depending as much on normal maps for detail. When characters make contact with its surface, there's a lot of spray as well as some deformation of the water surface. It's interactive in a way that we simply didn't see in the prior titles.
Outside of those improvements, spotting clear visual boosts is a bit tricky as there's a lot of visual continuity between Insomniac's Spider-Man games. Environmental reflections are still handled using RT - at least in the 30fps mode that was used for the demo - which is impressive but a technique we've seen before. Likewise, shadows are reasonably detailed but the RT shadows from the Spider-Man PC releases don't seem to have made the jump to PS5.
Visually speaking then, Spider-Man 2 seems mostly like an iterative upgrade over the prior games based on a surface level look. Insomniac's excellent-looking 2018 Spider-Man rendition seems to have served as a base for this title, with upgrades to take advantage of the much faster PS5 hardware. Granted, we're only seeing a very small slice of what is sure to be a content-rich experience, but that's my impression from the footage we've seen thus far.
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