I honestly believed that Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered would struggle on keyboard and mouse. The web-swinging and slugfests of Insomniac’s open world Spidey game feel so specifically tailored to a PlayStation controller that I couldn’t imagine how anyone could feasibly translate it to the PC’s traditional control scheme. Yet not only is the game perfectly playable on keyboard and mouse, in some ways it’s superior to the PS4 experience.
Swinging through the New York skyline was always the best bit of Insomniac’s title—with the studio delivering possibly the best movement system in any game of the last decade. Traversing Manhattan as Spidey is equally enjoyable on PC, only now you press and hold left-shift to start and maintain a swing, interspersed with deft taps of the spacebar to add little bursts of straight-line speed. But it’s the addition of mouse control that really gives the PC version an edge, letting you slip through tiny gaps between tenements and skyscrapers in a much smoother fashion
