Spider-Man mods are here, you can already play as Black Cat or Stan Lee and wear the symbiote suit
With great power comes great mod possibilities.
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
We’ve waited long enough. After all that time impatiently modding Spider-Man into other games likeGTA San Andreas,GTA 4, and of course,Skyrim, now we can finally modSpider-Man Remastered. Which means we’ll reskin him as someone else.
Among the first batch are mods to turn Spider-Man intoBlack CatandStan Lee, though neither has any animations yet. You’ll be stuck in an A-pose, which is probably fine for the screenshot memes these are made for. Spider-modding on PC is in its infancy, with a lot of the usual tedious reshades filling NexusMods, though I do like the look ofNoir New York. It doesn’t just turn everything black and white, but promises “Increased contrast, blacks are darker, whites a little more tame, and some bloom and film grain for the old movie feel.”
Less memetically, there’s aNo HUDmod, which drops the UI at the press of the caps-lock key, and some costume replacers. TheSymbiote Black Suitmod swaps the Advanced Suit for an outfit we might see an official version of in Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2, while theMiles Morales Suitreplaces it with what is apparently “a leftover model from when they were developing a multiplayer game mode.”
Most promising of all is theModding Tooluploaded by prolific Rockstar modder jedijosh920, who says, “It’s the foundation of creating and installing mods, having an easy to use mod file system where users can create and share their mods, and also install them.” If you’re interested in taking that for a spin, there’s aDiscord server dedicated to Spider-Man moddingyou can join. Who knows, maybe you’ll make something as masterful asFlying Rats, a mod that turns all of New York’s pigeons into, yes, flying rats.
What’s next? It’s a sure bet someone will find a way to restore Peter Parker’s original face from the PlayStation 4 version, add some kind of vertigo-inducing first-person camera, maybe a co-op mode, the inevitable nudity and then, I dunno, return the favor and turn Spider-Man into CJ from San Andreas? A look at some of the PlayStation version’s mods suggests some possibilities, including playable villains, multiple Spider-Men, and pizza textures. So that’s something to look forward to.
The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Jody’s first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia’s first radio show about videogames,Zed Games. He’s written forRock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue,GamesRadar,Zam,Glixel,Five Out of Ten Magazine, andPlayboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody’s first article for PC Gamer was about theaudio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he’s written aboutwhy Silent Hill belongs on PC,why Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, andhow weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.
The reigning Pope of 1-bit mystery games is back with a Halloween treat: a haunted house game you can play in your browser
Return of the Phantom, which is basically The Phantom of the Opera but with time travel, is free on GOG
The first PUBG spinoff with real promise is a top-down take on Rainbow Six Siege
