The newest Spider-Man game is the game that we wanted, and honestly deserved after all these years. Truthfully, it's been a very long time since we got a good new superhero game in general, with Injustice be💝ing the last completely original one. So don't even get me started on how long it's been since we hꦛad a great stand-alone Spider-Man game.
Who could forget the first time we got to suit up as Batman for the in the Arkham games, or the satisfaction of fighting DC heroes and villains in Injustice... well, now Spider-Man can 🍬join the ranks of great superheroes ꧙with an equally good game.
The world Insomniac built is flawless, the moments are breath-taking, and the combat is seamless (if we ignore a few frustrating camera moments). Swinging out of my ওapartment for the first time and doing a few unintentional-twists in the air was honestly one of my favorite video game moments in a while. And nothing beats t♚he smile on my face from seeing the city lit up at night for the first time.
This is a great game and nobody really is knocking that, but with most great games there's a ton more content than meets the eye. Spider-Man is not only jam-packed with an endless amount of nostalgic costumes and collectibles, but it also featu𒁏res an insanꩵe amount of Easter-egg material that only the most eagle-eyed gamers could find.
Some of these Easter-eggs haven't even surfaced til๊l very recently and we're guessing there's still tons of stuff that has still gone unnoticed. In the meantime, let's talk about the best Easter eggs at the moment, so you can satisfy your inner comp🐻letionist desires.
30 Spider-Man, P.I. (And The GTA IV Tie-In) 🐻
With both games taking place in New York City, it shouldn’t be the biggest surprise that Spider-Man featured an easter egg from the extremely popular Grand Theft Auto series. Yet the first time we found out about the tie-in, I couldn’t help𒐪 but freak out.
First, find the side-quest Spider-Man P.I. in Midtown, and from there start it up to find this easter egg.
During the mission, you’ll climb up on a wall to do some spying, only to find a planning board with names like Niko and Roman... two names that no GTA IV fan would ever forget.
29 Avengers Tower Is Pretty Hard To Miss 𝓰
Well, we’re kind of cheating with this one, as it’s pretty hard to miss the 🌼larger-than-life Avengers Tower on the New York skyline. Yet its inclusion is just so great that we can’t help but list it.
Avengers Tower is one of the first sites you’re likely to see swinging around New York, but if you actually go climb the building you’ll un🙈lock the trophy "Hero For Higher." Pretty punny if you ask us, and it also opens up the possibility for other superheroes to make their debut in the game; crosꦗs your fingers for my man Wolverine.
28 Screwball And Internet Fa𝓀mous (Side Quest)
You caꦓn use your camera for a ton of things in Spider-Man including shameless selfies, photo-bombing or even just to get a few pics from some in-game fans. But most people don’t know that the camera also scans QR codes.
Head to Harlem and take a picture of one of the many QR codes in the area to start the side-quest “Internet Famous.”
From there, you’ll take on a mission where you have to💞 take a few pictures of different areas. After you'll go onto meetup with Scre𝓀wball, the desperate online attention-seeking nuisance from the comics.
27 🐻 ⛄ Cat’s Cradle (Collecting All The Hidden Mascots)
This one’s a lot easier said than done, that being the reward is pretty dope. First off you’ll have to collect all the hidden mascots that villain and sometimes friend Black C🧜at set out for you.
It's pretty tough to find all of the mascots yourself, but we applaud those that refuse to look up tutorials.
Once you finish that, you’ll head to her hideout in West Side and find a recordꦓing fr♉om the dame herself, and you'll be rewarded a wicked dark suit from the comics.
26 𒈔 You Just Can't Avoid Stan Lee And His Cameos
It just woul🌃dn’t be Marvel without a Stan Lee cameo and you bet your chips that there’s one in this game. Instead of showing up as a club DJ, or FedEx delivery man, Lee is actually the owner of a restaurant named Mick’s.
The cameo happens pretty early, as Mick’s is the 🍰restaurant that Peter and Mary Jane go to frequently throughout the game. And while Stan Lee's cameos have become a little less surprising in the Marvel movies he r♔outinely shows up in, I did regain some of that childlike wonder at seeing him in a game.
25 The Hilarious Batman Reference 🎃
If DC and Marvel were to duke it out, putting th💮eir two most popular heroes up against each other, we’d no doubt be seeing everyone’s favorite nไeighborhood Spider-Man against the Dark Knight.
While swinging through the streets of NYC sometimes Spider-Man will make references or jokes relating to other heroes and villains.
Spider-Man makes a ꦬrather cheeky remark about a Spider-Man signal. Spidey talks about how useful a signal might be but then cuts him﷽self off by saying “Nah, we don’t want to get sued.”
24 ꦺ Pucker Up! (Sam Raimi'💛s Original Spider-Man Movie Reference)
Sorry not sorry, but to me, there’s just no debate a๊s to whether the Sam Raimi movies or the Amazing Spider-Man films are better, and it seems the game knows what’s up as well.
The game references Raimi’s trilogy multiple times throughout and starts us off with a reference to the iconic kissing scene.
After you tie up Wilson Fisk, or Kingpin, and leave him da𝔉ngling upside down, Spider-Man jokingly asks the big baldie to pucker-up ( ☂͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
23 Maddie, Will You Marry 💦Me?
People have really upped their proposal game in recent yeꦅars, even at the high school level I was being put to shame with all the extravagant, and truly unique "prom-posals." But I don’t ⛎think I’ve ever seen a proposal like this; one that came through a freaking game.
A fan actually reached out to Insomniac to add a proposal to his then-girlfriend, and for some hilarious they obliged.
Not every story has a happy ending though, as that fan’s gir♑lfriend actually left him for his brother before𒊎 the game even came out... talk about rough.
22 The Clever Symbiote Suit Reference 💫
There are a few things that are just staples to the Spider-Man franchise and his iconic, and very infamous black and white symbiote suit is one of th🐻em. While the s♏uit itself doesn’t make an appearance, it’s referenced pretty hard.
Early into the game, Spidey jokes with his friend Yuri about how they should attend the police ball together.
And she responds by saying, "Not unless you have a black and white suit." Well, it’s pret𓂃ty obvious as to what she’s referring to, so maybe Spidey’s gonna🐷 show up to the event looking like Venom.
21 ♍ Shirtless Spider-Man Makes An Apperance
In a real world where Spider-Man exists, there’s sure to be a few nuts, or at least some people who fanboy way too hard over Spidey’s existenceও. It seems Insomniac took this into consideration while also paying homage to a fan that was seriously hyped about the game.
Gre༒g Miller from Ki💟nda Funny Games was so hyped for the game that he created his own alter-ego by going shirtless and wearing a Spider-Man mask. Insomniac must’ve loved it so much that they decided to throw Miller, or at least someone that looked like him, into the game.