This game bagan so well but by the end, it had fallen so flat. Let's start with the positives. The boss battles were good even if they were few. All battles required strategy, quick-thinking as well as timing and I also liked how cinematic they could be. Another great thing about this game is the fun combat. The animations are fluid and very satisfying. I appreciate the improvement they made for the stealth gameplay. If you're into stealth, then you're in for a treat. It's not a perfect mechanic but the game has made stealth a gameplay focus.
Now the negatives: The game became repetitive mid way until the end. The story was strong in the beginning but the ending was shaky and rushed. I prefer the web swinging in the first TASM as the 2 buttons in this game felt unpolished and unresponsive at times. The Hero/Menace system was a good idea but poorly implemented. This mechanic ruined my experience with the game. One of the worst things an open world game can do, is to constantly force players on how they should play it. I loved swinging across the beautiful city, retrieving collectibles and doing hero missions that came my way. But this hero/menace system makes mobility so cumbersome. More annoying is the fact that, no matter how many hero missions you do, the menace system will still put heat on you some 1 minute later because the hero missions spawn infinitely. This will leave you either in a constant heat wanted level or you must do all infinite hero missions as every minute passes. Which is completely unrealistic and I don't know how the developers didn't see this coming.
TASM 2 is an okay game from start to finish. But it could have been a whole lot better.
