![]() ![]() By the end of the brief scene, we’re back to serious stealth, tucking MJ silently inside that room so that she’s not found out. I’m not the most considerate player when it comes to moving around, but this Daily Bugle reporter demands using your head, not your fists.Ĭreeping past her infuriated interview subject to get more info from her office isn’t boring it’s one more step toward ensuring MJ’s success, followed by matching picture puzzles that are almost like a glossy point-and-click detective adventure. The tenor of the level is an anxious one, so sneaking around is status quo. It feels natural transitioning from pressing triggers and snapping photos to ducking into an unlocked office without being caught. Things heat up from there to combine MJ’s investigative eye for detail with stealth gameplay, a spin on similar segments of the main campaign. S pider-Man’s MJ is the kind of woman who figures that out just as the titular hero does, without anyone’s help. The gallery’s owner seems to be up to no good, as we already know through Spider-Man’s storyline. As an investigative journalist, MJ has lots of witty dialogue, outsmarting the woman she’s trying to pry a good story out of. She uses her camera to photograph important objects, which cuts to a first-person perspective that forces the player to be precise with their aim. She doesn’t have powers, of course, and that makes for a unique gameplay style. Mary Jane explains what she’s doing at a tense crime scene, which kicks us into a playable flashback sequence. How Spider-Man PS4’s New York City compares to the real thing This is a timeline where Peter Parker jumped straight from college to working as a scientist Mary Jane instead went to the Bugle, and she’s running circles around anything Peter ever could have done there. (A supervillain with taste? One of many reasons this game owns.)īefore Spidey gets to stopping the bad guys and saving the museum curator they’ve taken hostage, he runs into Mary Jane - ace Daily Bugle reporter Mary Jane Watson, to be precise. Defeating Fisk that first time doesn’t put him down for good, so Spider-Man is sent by his cop companion Yuri Watanabe to the local art museum, where Fisk’s henchmen are working to steal more precious art. Mary Jane shows up somewhere after the first real boss fight, when Spider-Man knocks around big-handed crime boss Wilson Fisk (fans may know him as Kingpin). And it turns out that Insomniac has overhauled Mary Jane from a beautiful, if sometimes brash, romantic object into someone with wits and agency. When we played the first three hours of Spider-Man at an early preview event last month, we got to find out. Until now, it was unclear what playing as Mary Jane would look like. The team at Insomniac Games hasn’t even hidden that Mary Jane is a playable character. It’s no secret that Mary Jane appears in Marvel’s Spider-Man at some point she’s appeared in previous trailers, like the one above. Women figure into every part of Peter Parker’s life: Aunt May is his sole family member, the one thing keeping him from being totally orphaned science nerd Gwen Stacy was Peter’s first love Black Cat, who has yet to make her movie debut, is a sexy superhero that Peter falls for.Īmong the very amazing things that Spider-Man’s upcoming PlayStation 4 debut does - the swinging! the exploration! fighting bad guys big and small! - is pull the rug out from under these givens. With so many options in its mythology, Spider-Man is more guilty than many Marvel franchises for sidelining female characters. ![]() ![]() It’s not that women aren’t allowed to be heroes - it’s that cinematic universes have rarely propped them up as the stars they deserve to be. Black Panther’s most exciting heroes, the women who stand with T’Challa, weren’t top billed. After years of being a fan favorite, only now is Black Widow getting her own vehicle. Captain Marvel is coming in 2019, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has spent the last 10 years treading water to get there. Wonder Woman survived multiple Superman and Batman reboots to finally get her due. Superheroes’ on-screen stories could use a lot more women at the center of their worlds. ![]()
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