List of accolades received by Marvel's Spider-Man
Awards received by the 2018 video game Marvel's Spider-Man
List of accolades received by Marvel's Spider-Man Total number of awards and nominations Total 11 73 Footnotes
Marvel's Spider-Man action-adventure game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment . Based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man , it is inspired by the long-running comic book mythology and adaptations in other media . Set in New York City , players follow Spider-Man trying to stop the super-human crime lord Mister Negative from releasing a deadly virus across the city while dealing with the personal problems of his civilian persona, Peter Parker. When the game was announced in June 2016, it was widely anticipated. The game was nominated for Most Wanted Game at the Golden Joystick Awards in 2016 and 2017, as well as for Most Anticipated Game at The Game Awards 2017 .
It was released worldwide on September 7, 2018, for the PlayStation 4 . Spider-Man received "generally favorable reviews" from critics, according to review aggregator Metacritic with a score of 87 from 116 reviews; it was Metacritic's thirteenth highest-scoring PlayStation 4 game of 2018.[ a] Spider-Man sold 3.3 million units in its first three days of release, making it the fastest-selling second-party video game release in Sony's history, narrowly beating 2018's God of War USA Today US$ 198 million$117 million North-American opening-weekend box office take of the 2017 film Spider-Man: Homecoming Spider-Man had sold over 13.2 million physical and digital units worldwide making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games .
Spider-Man garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories with particular praise for its story, characters, performances, and music. At the Gamers' Choice Awards 2018, the game received eight nominations and went on to win three awards: Fan Favorite Action Game, Fan Favorite Single Player Gaming Experience, and Fan Favorite Character of the Year for Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker / Spider-Man . At the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards the game received twenty-one nominations and went on to win three awards for Engineering; Game, Franchise Action; and Performance in a Drama, Supporting for Laura Bailey as Mary Jane Watson . At the 22nd Annual D.I.C.E. Awards , the game earned eleven nominations and won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Animation . At the SXSW Gaming Awards 2019, Spider-Man earned eight nominations and won the Excellence in Animation and Excellence in Convergence awards, and at the Game Critics Awards 2018 it garnered three nominations and won two awards: Best Console Game and Best Action/Adventure Game.
Spider-Man appeared on several lists of the top video games of 2018, being ranked in first place by Wired Apple Daily Time Complex Push Square Zero Punctuation Electronic Gaming Monthly GamesRadar+ Giant Bomb Polygon USgamer The Daily Telegraph Shacknews and The Verge Eurogamer GameSpot IGN Famitsu Spider-Man as their game of the year.
Accolades
Other awards
Spider-Man received a range of awards and nominations from media publications and other game awards shows.
Best Game awards and nominations
Spider-Man appeared on several lists of the top video games of 2018, being ranked in first place by Wired Apple Daily Hot Press Maxim Stuff Time Troy Daily News Complex France Info Igromania Morning Star Push Square The Ringer Zero Punctuation Gry Online The Michigan Daily National Post NRK P3 Electronic Gaming Monthly Libertad Digital Vulture ; sixth place by IGN Italy Rolling Stone Italy GamesRadar+ Giant Bomb Knack Focus The Mercury News The Star HuffPost Brazil Polygon USgamer The Daily Telegraph Shacknews and The Verge CNews Eurogamer Fox Sports Asia GameSpot IGN news.com.au Famitsu Spider-Man as their game of the year.
Other categories
Game award shows
The Australian Games Awards and Brazil Game Awards nominated Marvel's Spider-Man for both Action/Adventure Title of the Year and Game of the Year. The Brazil Game Awards also nominated it for Best Original Game, Best Console Game, Best Soundtrack, Best Voice Acting in Portuguese, and Insomniac was nominated for Best Studio. The Global Game Awards nominated it for Game of the Year (sixth), Best Action (second), Best Open World (third), Best Visuals (fourth), in addition Insomniac won Best Developer. At the New York Game Awards the game was nominated for The Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year and Laura Bailey 's portrayal of Mary Jane Watson gave her a nomination for Great White Way Award for Best Acting in a Game.
The game was nominated for 22 categories and won three at the National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards 17 of these were: Game of the Year; Animation, Artistic; Animation, Technical; Art Direction, Contemporary; Camera Direction in a Game Engine; Character Design; Control Design; Costume Design; Design, Franchise; Direction in a Game Cinema; Graphics, Technical; Lighting/Texturing; Original Dramatic Score, Franchise; Sound Editing in a Game Cinema; Sound Effects; Writing in a Drama. In addition, it won the awards for Game, Franchise Action and Engineering. Also it received nominations for its voice actors including: Performance in a Drama, Lead (Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker / Spider-Man ); Performance in a Drama, Supporting (Laura Bailey as Mary Jane Watson ); Performance in a Drama, Supporting (William Saylers as Otto Octavius / Doctor Octopus ). Bailey went on to win her nomination.
It received a "Silver" award (equivalent to third place) by PlayStation Blog PlayStation Blog for Best PlayStation Console Exclusive. Its developer, Insomniac Games, received a "Silver" award for Studio of the Year.
Spider-Man won Best Game Narrative from Digital Trends Giant Bomb . Additionally, it was nominated for Best Video Game Story as well as Best PlayStation 4 Game and Best Action-Adventure Game by IGN IGN Australia The Games Machine [ b] Inner Circle Games Network . It won an Excellence Prize from Famitsu Awards .
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