Next time you get robbed, make sure to call your buddies at the coffee shop

This has to be the worst wall of text I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s a superhero...he helps the people of New York, which would often mean helping NYPD thwart criminals, or take preventative measures. And in this game specifically, he’s helping Yuri, not necessarily being buddy buddy with the cops. Also, why the…

Because people let media hysteria (even when they ARE media themselves) take over their better judgement and just assume all cops are evil racist caricatures who want to shoot any black kid they see.

Yes yes... cops are the real bad guys... blah blah blah.

Who do you think will be running those surveillance cameras in your communist utopia? “The people”? rofl

Spiderman has always helped the police. Read a comic book, dude. What’s next, an article bemoaning Batman sending the psychopaths he captures to Arkham, a…

Tom Let you should be thankful you are in the era of the internet because if you tried to become a journalist before there were hundreds of thousands of oulets you would have never made a living being a journalist. I think I heard a collective sigh from everyone who happened to stumble on to this article that is even…

Never read the comics I take it Tom? Spider-manhas worked with NYPD on many occasions. He fights crime, gives his criminals all to the NYPD.This article is a joke, you are taking this fictional world that spider-man lives in and comparing it to us. You sound like someone who has absolutely no knowledge on the marvel…

Superheroes are usually common folk that rise up to enforce the law and stop crime. So are cops. Both exist in order to protect people from dangerous criminals, and save people from harrowing situations. It’s not weird or unreasonable that Spider Man would be appreciated by the police for basically doing their job for…

“...but it is also impossible, for me at least, to not feel some ickiness about the game forcing me into cahoots with even a fictionalized version of the NYPD, an organization that routinely oppresses some of the most vulnerable residents of the city I live in.”

Why does everyone hate cops so much? Shadiness is pretty rare, and no more prevalent than any other industry (Hollywood, anyone?). Cops are people too, and most stories end up being bogus anyway. Check out this article:

Worst article I think this site has ever published. It’s amazing to watch you forego the intelligence of realizing the entire concept of superheros is essentially a fantasy built around wishing cops could have more power and broader reach to enact righteousness.

I can’t even summarize how truly milllennial and stupid…

This is set in a universe where costumed super villains exist and magic is real and you’re dumbfounded by the idea that spider man would want to help the fictional cops. Mind you he doesn’t even really help the cops in this game, he only really works with Yuri Watanabe, the police captain, and often makes remarks to…

A game where you play as a crime fighter has you fighting crime?

So... there is a lot to unpack here and none of it is good or really speaks very well of your cognitive abilities. Let’s just say that while NYC may be NYC in the Spider-man universe, it’s still an alternate reality.

“the NYPD, an organization that routinely oppresses some of the most vulnerable residents of the city I live in.”

It’s dumb to expect video games to be responsible reflections of real life, but it is also impossible, for me at least, to not feel some ickiness about the game forcing me into cahoots with even a fictionalized version of the NYPD, an organization that routinely oppresses some of the most vulnerable residents of the…

You know what’s fun. Acting like you’re super woke because you noticed some inherently fascistic tendencies in even the most friendliest of superheroes when you haven’t even finished the media that you’re analyzing/criticizing. Do you guys have a quota for bullshit? 

I genuinely didn’t know it was possible for someone to be this idiotic. Did you expect spiderman to wear a black lives matter shirt and an antifa mask? Newsflash: most Americans actually support and like the police. Get your left wing trash out of here.

The issue you have is that a superhero is protecting the innocent that even includes the cops and working with them? You did play the first mission right, where you get betrayed by some of the cops. The game plays this true to comic books. Batman has been betrayed by cops, pretty much every hero has, but at the same…

he’s the friendly neighborhood spider-man.

his job title implies he helps take care of the neighborhood; which would include helping the cops with crimes; or helping fire fighters with normally difficult rescue scenarios. Without sounding like a geek gatekeeper, one could infer from the article you know very little…

“Look. This game should allow every fan to play out their personal vision of Spider-Man. My Spider-Man would like to do a 9/11.”