It will be available to purchase standalone for $49.99. Those who bought the base game, Digital Deluxe Edition or Game of the Year Edition on PS4 can upgrade for $10. Those who own Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales can also still upgrade to the Ultimate Edition and obtain the remaster. Of course, if you play Marvel’s Spider-Man via PlayStation Plus, it’s not eligible for an upgrade.

Check out our review for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered here. It’s also available for PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. As for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, it launches this Fall for PS5. Insomniac hasn’t provided a release month, but Sony reiterated its release for this fiscal year. Stay tuned for more details, especially with the rumored PlayStation Showcase later this month.

As spotted recently by a ResetEra user, Sony seems to have quietly raised the prices of a number of its titles on Steam in various countries. Games like Returnal, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Days Gone have all seen price increases to varying degrees in a number of regions, including Argentina, Japan, Canada, Colombia, China, South Korea, and Chile.

The price increases vary from title to title and country to country. In Argentina, for instance, they’ve increased from a range of 4199-5999 Pesos to 8499-9999 Pesos; in Canada, they’ve gone from $59.99-69.99 to $64.99-79.99; while in Japan, they’ve increased from 4900-6490 Yen to 6490-7590 Yen (via PlayStation LifeStyle).

Sony hasn’t yet officially communicated anything related to said price increases, so it’s currently unknown whether the changes will be restricted to Steam or if they’ll be happening in other regions as well.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered was a bit of a surprise when it was unveiled shortly before the PS5’s launch, but it was a very welcome surprise indeed. Insomniac Games put in a surprising amount of effort into touching up the open world action-adventure title and bringing its visuals up to scratch, but curiously, Sony made the decision to only make the game available as a download code to those who purchased Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition on the PS5.

But though the first game’s remaster hasn’t been available as an individual purchase up until now, that could change soon. Recently, individual game pages for Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on the US and UK PlayStation Store websites added an option to purchase the game as a standalone product (for $39.99 and £44.99 respectively). It seems like that option has been removed since then, but you can see a screengrab of the same below, courtesy of VGC.

It’s unclear for now whether the option for standalone purchase was added erroneously, or whether it’s something that Sony eventually plans to make available to purchasers but mistakenly went live with prematurely. It would definitely make sense for the remaster to be a standalone purchase as well, so here’s hoping we see some development on that front soon.

Marvel’s Spider-Man is available on PS4, while the remaster is available exclusively on PS5. You can read our review of the latter through here.

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales recently received an update that added a third graphics option with 60 frames per second performance on top of ray-tracing being enabled. While earlier, the game had offered two options on the PS5 going with one or the other, the new option offers the best of both worlds with sacrifices in some other areas. As Insomniac promised not too long ago, now, that option has been added to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered as well.

Called the Performance RT mode, similar to Miles Morales, it runs the game at 60 FPS with ray-tracing enabled, while scene resolution, reflection quality, and pedestrian density are adjusted to allow for those enhancements.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is currently available exclusively on PS5, and is available exclusively as bonus download code with Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ Ultimate Edition. In our review for the remaster, we said, “Spider-Man was one of the best games on the PS4, and it is now one of the best games in the PS5’s burgeoning library.” You can read our full review through here.

It was quite a time for a Spider-Man fan who happened to get a PS5 over the last two weeks. Not only did we get Miles Morales, we also got a full remaster of the 2018 title, which was just as good as the original game. But it wasn’t without some issues technically (and no, I’m not talking about the new Peter Parker face)- but Insomniac seems to have fixed many of those issues.

An issue has somewhat plagued the game since its initial launch where trying to resume the game from the PS5’s rest mode was causing issues that included hard crashes. The newest update, 1.001, is now live and addresses that. It’s the same update that allows you to transfer your PS4 save of the original game, too. Alongside all that is also some fixes to animations, accessibility and ray tracing. You can see the full patch notes below or via the official support site through here.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is available now on PlayStation 5 via purchasing the Ultimate Edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. As of now, there’s no announced way to get the game standalone. The original title is available on PS4.

PATCH NORES:

New Features

• Added ability to download save games from Marvel’s Spider-Man (PS4) to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

Fixes & Updates

• Improved quality and performance of ray-traced reflections
• Addressed various animation issues
• Addressed various environment art issues
• Addressed various accessibility issues
• Addressed a stability issue when resuming from Rest Mode

Insomniac Games promised shortly before the game’s launch that Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered would receive an update following release that would allow players to transfer save data from the original PS4 game to the PS5 remaster. That update is now out, as announced by the developer on Twitter.

To transfer your save data, you need to ensure that both Marvel’s Spider-Man on your PS4 and Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered on your PS5 are updated to their latest versions (v1.19 and v1.001.000 respectively). In the PS4 game’s main menu, upload your saves to the cloud, after which you will be able to download them in the remaster on PS5. Once you do that, all of your Trophies from the original game will automatically be unlocked in the remaster as well (including any new ones added with the remaster, as long as you’ve met their criteria in the original game).

Meanwhile, Insomniac Games also confirms that the rest mode crashing errors that have been seen with the remaster (which sees the console crashing if you put it in rest mode while playing the remaster) have also been fixed.

In our review of Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, we awarded the game a score of 8/10- read our full verdict through here.

Overnight we released an update for Marvel’s Spider-Man on PS4 bringing those suits, and the ability to export your save to Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered.

We also updated Remastered to allow import of those exported saves and with many additional fixes (incl. rest mode crash) https://t.co/LVnYVykc0Q

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) November 22, 2020

https://twitter.com/insomniacgames/status/1330530172567756802

If you’re not yet caught up on the PS4 game – in which case I’d like to ask to borrow whatever cave or bomb shelter you’ve been holed up in, given its immense popularity, as one of Sony’s highest selling games of all time – it’s pretty much exactly what you would expect: an open world, high budget AAA Spider-Man game, with the backing and budget that being a Sony first party game brings with it to the table. That means it’s remarkably polished (though this remaster does introduce a few bugs to the game), and, being developed by Insomniac, it plays extremely well.

The look and feeling of webslinging across a virtual New York City is recreated incredibly well, thanks to remarkably simple and intuitive controls that are so easy to master, they quickly become second nature, receding into the background to such an extent that you won’t even realize the complex inputs you are chaining one after the other to pull off the slick moves on screen. Equally important to this feeling being nailed down are the incredible animations on screen, which are so smooth and slick, and so authentic (as authentic as a virtual recreation of a superhero can be, at any rate), that it really does – to borrow a popular phrase – make you feel like Spider-Man.

"This remaster, with its handful of improvements, along with the updates that being on the PS5 entails (such as the immensely reduced loading times) make this the definitive way to play this budding modern classic."

Honestly, the visual work in general across the game is spectacular. The original game was a looker, of course, and the remaster retains that, updating the graphics appropriately so that they look shiny and great on your brand new PS5 as well. However, the real coup de grace here is the performance mode of the game, which has it run in a blistering 60 frames per second. And let me tell you, this is very clearly how Insomniac intended for this game to be played. That smoothness and effortless control that I mentioned? It comes to life in 60fps. It feels like a joy to play this game in this framerate, and honestly, it feels difficult to even imagine playing this game in 30fps once you’ve played it in 60 – the difference is immediately perceptible and palpable.

There is a 30fps mode available with this remaster too, however. The aptly named fidelity mode sacrifices the framerate, matching the original PS4 version’s, to deliver higher quality graphics. The game states that this is the “default” experience, and it’s easy to see why. The graphics look stunning in 4K, and the new lighting and raytracing effects, in particular, are gorgeous. Unfortunately, as mentioned, this does mean you are giving up on that buttery smooth 60fps, which, for me, is a bridge too far – but in case you are curious to see what kind of high quality graphics Insomniac managed to eke out of this more than 2 years old game, or if you can make your peace with the lower framerate better than I could, then this is definitely the way to go for you.

The graphics, sound design, writing, story, music, all of it come together to make the game feel like a playable Marvel movie or comic. Spider-Man on PS4 is a love letter to the character and the decades of media behind him, with loads of references, easter eggs, callbacks, and of course, plot points, that call to mind the web slinger’s outings in various other media. As I mentioned earlier, it all feels authentic.

"The graphics, sound design, writing, story, music, all of it come together to make the game feel like a playable Marvel movie or comic. Spider-Man is a love letter to the character and the decades of media behind him."

A large part of that is how well the game also pulls off combat – which is at least half the battle in a Spider-Man game. Insomniac, again, pretty much nail this. Superficially, the combat seems to recall the Batman: Arkham games, though, of course, what works for Batman doesn’t work for Spider-Man, which is why Insomniac add so many of their own spins to it, to reflect Spidey’s unique powers and incredible athleticism. The combat in Spider-Man will give you as much as you are willing to put into it.

It is possible to simply mash the square button through most encounters, especially on easier difficulties, but the true joy of the combat comes in chaining together long combos, and engaging with all the tools available in Spidey’s arsenal, from all his gadgets, to aerials, dodges, leveraging the environment, and the objects within it, to inflict damage, evade attacks, and simply look stylish and slick as you fight. Once again, Insomniac have wisely decided against rocking the boat, and once again, it works out incredibly well in the remaster’s favor.

This adherence to the original game, however, does have its downsides too. There were several criticisms the original game received, and with one exception, those criticisms can all also be leveled against this remaster. The much maligned stealth sections, featuring other characters such as Miles or M.J., for example, are still here – and while I never really hated them as much as, well, just about everyone else, if you did, then you will still hate them here. The hacking/spectography puzzles from the original game were also similarly criticized.

Once again, I actually quite enjoyed them, but once again, if you didn’t, then the exact same thing being in this game will hardly go down well with you (thankfully, as in the original game, you can simply skip any puzzle you like). Then there was the repetitive nature of the activities in the open world, which sent you after hundreds of mindless collectibles, and trite side missions. These I did hate in the original, and in my experience, they were the biggest blemish on an otherwise great experience. These, too, unfortunately, are present in the game as is, and they do mar the experience, more so now than in 2018, what with so many Sony open world games since having contextualized in-game side activities so much better.

The one flaw of the original that has been addressed is the long loading times. This, of course, comes with the territory of being on the PS5, with its extremely fast SSD. Loading is basically instant, and Insomniac even flex the PS5’s SSD muscle by allowing you to outright turn off the “quick” travel animations in the original game, which had Spidey travelling using the New York subway. While that concept is humorous by definition, on the whole, I am glad that the loading times are gone (if you really want, you can find a setting to turn on the original animations in the options menu).

"This adherence to the original game, however, does have its downsides too. There were several criticisms the original game received, and with one exception, those criticisms can all also be leveled against this remaster."

By and large, this remaster is pretty much on par with what I expected from it. There is one area, however, where it disappointed me relative to my expectations. A lot has been said about the PS5’s haptics. The DualSense controller is packed with advanced and sophisticated haptics that can increase immersion. I was eager to feel these haptics in action in Spider-Man, and unfortunately, these disappoint. They are there, but they are very slight, so slight, in fact, that I originally thought I had enabled some accessibility setting to turn down their intensity by mistake. Going into the Options menu revealed I had done no such thing, unfortunately, and that the “classic” vibration setting very barely feels like anything. This isn’t a game breaker, of course, but it does come off as a disappointment, given the sheer potential that haptics could have in a game like this.

I started this review by saying that if you loved the 2018 game, you will still love this remaster; that comes with the territory of this largely being the same game with some slight, if far-reaching, enhancements. Conversely, however, if the 2018 game didn’t do it for you, I can’t see this remaster changing your mind at all, unless your sole reason for not liking the PS4 game was a lack of ray tracing, or 60 fps, or quick loading speeds, or some combination of all of those.

If you fall under neither of those categories, and this will be your first time playing Spider-Man, then you are in for a treat. With great power comes great responsibility, we are told, and Insomniac, given the power to develop a Spider-Man game, lived up to their responsibility, by delivering a game that stood out as among the best on the PS4 – and now stands out as among the best on the PS5.

This game was reviewed on the PlayStation 5.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is promising to be a meaty upgrade over the 2018 PS4 title, from new suits (which will also be added to the original game), to a new Peter Parker, and much more. One of those new additions is new Trophies- of which we now know there are going to be exactly five.

As revealed in the remaster’s full Trophy list (via Exophase), these five new Trophies will require you to finish an enemy base without taking any damage, achieve of a combo of 100 hits, get the Ultimate ranking on a Taskmaster challenge, max out any Benchmark (which are in-game achievements of sorts, in case you don’t know), and max out all gadgets. They all seem pretty doable.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered launches for PS5 on November 12, and will only be packaged with the Ultimate Edition of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Sony have no plans for an individual release, and free PS4-PS5 upgrades won’t be offered.

For the launch of the PS5 there’s a lot to pick and chose from, but probably the biggest is Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The attention has been on that game, as it should be since Miles is the best Spider-Man (I said it, send tweets). However, we can’t forget the original 2018 title is getting quite the remaster to come alongside those who get the Ultimate Edition of Miles Morales. Today, we got a look at two new suits ol’ Pete can swing around in.

Miles has had his share of slick alternate suits shown off, but the new two for Parker aren’t too shabby. They are the Armored Advanced Suit and the Arachnid Rider, which you can see below. The armored suit looks very much in line with the game’s style with Rider giving a more anime-like edge to things.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered will be available at the PS5 launch on November 12th for those who buy Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales Ultimate Edition. The original title is now available for PS4, and these suits will apparently also come to that version at some point.

Your first glimpse of the Arachnid Rider and Armored Advanced Suits, two all-new looks for Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered. Details on this enhanced version of the PS4 classic: https://t.co/iGY2mLTmfl pic.twitter.com/nEgzNY5AeT

— Insomniac Games (@insomniacgames) November 6, 2020