{"id":38296,"date":"2023-10-19T18:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T16:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1911190"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T18:48:38","slug":"cant-play-spider-man-2-hellboys-new-game-is-your-ideal-superhero-fix","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/cant-play-spider-man-2-hellboys-new-game-is-your-ideal-superhero-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Can\u2019t play Spider-Man 2? Hellboy\u2019s new game is your ideal superhero fix"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s more than one comic book character stepping into gaming this week. <\/p>

By Rob Leane\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Thursday, 19 October 2023 at 16:11 PM<\/p>

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Superheroes are like buses. They\u2019re big, they\u2019re everywhere, they\u2019re often red, and sometimes two turn up at once.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what has happened in the gaming world this week, with the arrival of indie game Hellboy: Web of Wyrd<\/a>, developed in Godalming by a small company called Upstream Arcade, being somewhat overshadowed by the long-awaited release of Marvel and Sony\u2019s blockbuster sequel Spider-Man 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s no reason you can\u2019t play both, of course. Unless you don\u2019t yet have a PS5 (the only platform that will receive Spider-Man 2 this Friday), meaning you won\u2019t be able to play Spidey\u2019s latest offering at launch.<\/p>\n

If you are in that situation and looking for a superhero gaming fix, we\u2019d like to take a minute to bang the drum for Hellboy: Web of Wyrd.<\/p>\n

Back in August, at the Gamescom 2023<\/a> conference, we got the chance to try out the new Hellboy game, and it was immediately impressive quite how much it looks and feels like an actual comic book come to life.<\/p>\n

It has a very faithful art style, with Big Red looking like he\u2019s lurched in directly from one of his printed adventures.<\/p>\n

We also got the chance to chat to two of the key people behind Web of Wyrd: the Hellboy character\u2019s original creator Mike Mignola, and the game\u2019s art director Patrick Martin, who spoke very engagingly about how their collaboration came about and why it worked so well.<\/p>\n

Take a look at a trimmed down edit of our conversation in the video player below!<\/p>