Post Script
Do expansions like Miles Morales represent the shape of things to come?
The inevitable Photo Mode has all the features you’d expect, but you can also add sphere or spotlights to a scene
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he credits for Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales are an eye-opening reminder of what it takes to make a blockbuster videogame in 2020. Sure, by then you can’t fail to have noticed all the money on the screen – it’s evident in the pore-perfect detail and realistic animations of its performancecaptured characters, and in the dazzling effects that mean some fights produce more pyrotechnics than your average firework display. But it’s only here that you really begin to appreciate the scale of the production, and the sheer manpower involved. The names scroll by for a long, long time – we’re not holding a stopwatch, but suffice to say that we’re forced to pick up the controller more than once to prevent the power-saving settings from kicking in and turning off our PS5.