“BLACK CAT’S BACK, ALRIGHT!”
I sung this to the tune of Backstreet Boy’s classic track, ‘Everybody’, if you didn’t get the reference. While ‘Everybody’ has had no follow-up, Marvel’s Spider-Man does. And it gets its first DLC almost 2 months after it swung into our lives.
And now he’s bringing another friend with him.
DLC is a polarising product; It either satisfies an audience or it’s never enough. I did enjoy the 30 hours I already had with Spider-Man. So more of it was going to result in it biased on my part.
Refilling Spidey’s web-shooters, Peter Parker takes on the night as Black Cat returns. She’s back make stuff uncomfortable for him basically. And that involves an adventure which shows the consequences of Kingpin’s incarceration. Black Cat stays true to her comic roots, easily getting under Spidey’s skin—and into any building worth stealing from..
Spidey coincidentally meets her at a location MJ provided, but chaos erupts as the Maggia Mob Family arrives with new enemies in tow.. And HONESTLY…if you thought “hey, they could make brutes harder”, then you can get in the sea. Because these new brutes are…”Son. Just don’t” (“I understood that reference”).
Criss-crossing the city, you’ll find more crime to stop with some variety in the mix; New challenges courtesy of everyone’s favourite internet star Screwball, and a tonne of Black Cat shenanigans because well…it’s about the heist. Missing the opportunity to allow players to control the Cat, it does produce some nice tag-team moments along the way, with an excellent stealth mission toward its conclusion.
At around 5 hours for full completion, The Heist positions The City That Never Sleeps to offer roughly half the runtime of the main game.. And I guess THAT ending can be staged as a “comeback for more!” call-to-action, but you know what?
I’ll bloody be back for more Spider-Man.
The Heist presents a serene episode that concludes itself asking questions of the next episode in The City That Never Sleeps series.
And I won't be sleeping until I see the end of it either.
