1. Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020, PS5/PS4)
For as much as Spider-Man (2018) gets right, and it gets a lot right, it isn’t perfect. It features some wonky stealth sections as Mary Jane and has a storyline that gets bogged down in the middle with some padding. Miles Morales fixes that, cutting out all the fat and mediocre bits and leaving a lean, pristine, near-perfect video game. The fantastic web-swinging returns, and you now have a whole cast of loveable characters who help flesh out Harlem, the area of the now-snowy New York that Miles calls home. By the end of the game, I wasn’t fighting to save New York, some abstract city filled with people. I was fighting to save my friends and family, who I cared about, who had names and hopes and fears. I didn’t think Miles Morales would be as good as Spider-Man (2018). I was right…It ended up being better. I mean you can swing around NYC with a cat on your back. What more can you ask for?
