Which PlayStation 5 Launch Games Make the System Worth Buying?
There were moments in Spider-Man: Miles Morales that made me forget the realities of New York City in 2020. The game, a spin-off of the 2018 Peter Parker-led Spider-Man, is arguably the most-anticipated title in Sony’s line-up for the newly released PlayStation 5, and it’s not hard to see why. While Spider-Man was a great looking game, Miles Morales is absolutely gorgeous, featuring a beautifully detailed, densely populated Manhattan that’s a genuine joy to jump and swing around in for hours on end. While New York is hardly the ghost town that our soon-to-be-former president has claimed, there’s been a clear reduction in foot traffic. It’s strange to walk around Chinatown at 7 p.m. on a Friday and see only a handful of others, but that was my experience last week.
Miles Morales’s Chinatown, on the other hand, is bustling. But instead of making me yearn for the Before Times, it’s almost like I got to relive them. And sure, I can’t go into any of the buildings, but also: I’m Spider-Man… and that seems like a worthwhile trade-off right about now.