In Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, when you swing on a web strand, the game auto-releases the web at the top of the arc. It sported an easy option, which was roughly equivalent to Remastered’s regular web-slinging, but the game was more fun without it. What was special about the web-slinging of Spider-Man 2 - so special that it deserves to be modded into Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered - was the extra freedom it afforded you. That made Spider-Man 2 a revelation, even if Tobey Maguire did sound like he was phoning it in, and the web-swinging was the icing on the cake. Some of them were still quality games it’s just that they couldn’t deliver a full, open-world Spider-Man experience. Like Superman, another famously free-flying character, Spider-Man had been shoehorned into platform games, beat ‘em ups, and even text adventures where the web-slinging abilities he’s arguably most famous for were of little use.

(The game based on the first Raimi Spider-Man movie let you roam a little, but most of the levels were inside and you’d die if you attempted to head down to street level.) Developed by Treyarch and released on Xbox, GameCube, and PlayStation 2, Spider-Man 2 gave you the freedom to climb any building, swing through every street - it was the game Spider-Man fans had been waiting for. Spider-Man 2, based on Sam Raimi’s movie of the same name and not to be confused with Insomniac’s upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, was the first proper open-world Spider-Man game. But is it spectacular? No, and that’s where Spider-Man 2 comes in. Just swinging around the city, dashing up the side of buildings, then leaping off again is an absolute joy. That’s not to say there’s anything inherently awful about the web-slinging in Marvel’s Spider-Man, far from it - it’s pretty damn good. But there’s only one Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered mod I’ve been craving - perfect web-slinging.

And Randy Savage / Bonesaw aside, you can expect the full gamut of mods and tweaks - play as Venom (the Tom Hardy version), pedestrians are Deadpool, and so on. Of course, there have been a few mods for the PlayStation 4 release, but the upcoming and long-awaited PC release of Insomniac’s acclaimed superhero game will dial things up to 11. “Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever Macho Man Randy Savage can…” Okay, that’s not quite how the song goes, but when Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered hits PC this week, you can expect a modding free-for-all.

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