Clearing the Way and The Main Event are the first two missions in Marvel's Spider-Man, taking places in Hell's Kitchen. Spider-Man finally reaches a face-off with longstanding rival Wilson Fisk, after the police track him down. The mission serves as a tutorial of sorts for players, teaching most of the basic combat moves.
Plot
The scene opens with Peter Parker asleep on his bed, awoken by the buzzing of his cell phone. Players get a glimpse of his apartment, including pictures of him with Aunt May and Uncle Ben, newspapers from the Daily Bugle, schematics for suit improvements, and even comic books. They also see he is notoriously behind on his rent. After hearing a call from the police unit, Peter quickly rises, donning his Spider-Man suit and hurrying out of his apartment.
Spider-Man then exits the apartment via the window. Along the way, Yuriko Watanabe calls Spider-Man over comms, informing him that her team are at Fisk Tower awaiting a warrant, and asking for his help at Times Square. Soon after, work calls, and the voice of Otto Octavius comes over the line, though players are not clued in to his identity as of yet. Octavius calls to ask Peter where he is, needing him to run through a demonstration before the grant committee, and Peter quickly hangs up to prepare for the battle.
Arriving at Times Square, police officers are under fire from Fisk's men, ducking behind their vehicles for cover. As the enemy approaches firing machine guns, they are waved away, and the officers slowly emerge, confused. A tanker truck speeds in from the side, smashing their cars before exploding in a ball of fire. The thugs resume their advance. Before they can shoot, Spider-Man arrives, disarming them all from above before landing.
After webbing up the enemies, Yuri called Spider-Man only to hear another explosion nearby. After reaching Fisk Tower, he sees the police under heavy fire from Fisk's men outside Fisk Tower. Yuri Watanabe ducks behind her vehicle to request more backup as Spider-Man lands next to her. Spider-Man then swings to the building, defeating a group of thugs and throwing one through the window in order to gain entry. In the room below, the police are pinned down.
After Spider-Man defeats the group of thugs inside, the police show up as the last thug is taken down and attempt to use the elevator, but they have been shut down. While they elect to take the stairs, Spider-Man crawls up the shaft and access the ducts. Yuri contacts Spider-Man informing him that their choppers were taking fire and that Fisk's men are desperate, warning him that the server rooms' data is being wiped. While heading to the server room, Aunt May interrupts with a phone call, but he manages to convince her everything is fine before running into the next fight.
After dealing with the last of the thugs in the server room, Spider-Man approaches the console to halt the purge of server files. Fisk then appears on the server room to taunt Spider-Man, following which the server room doors open and a set of thugs rushes in to take on players. Fisk taunts Spider-Man as he fights, saying that he is the only one that has kept the criminal element in check in the city. Yuri sends in a bomb unit, which Spider-Man clears the way for.
As players may their way up through the floors, they deal with thugs they meet along the way and then meet up with the bomb unit. Hearing screams, they split up, with Spider-Man looking for victims of the explosions and bomb unit hurrying off to diffuse what they find. After helping victims and using the ventilation shaft, Yuri contacts him again, and the two speculate Fisk planned for the attack.
Spider-Man then finds the bomb unit is found injured in the corridor. Upon entering, Spider-Man is met with rocket-launcher thugs instead. Once clear, the bomb squad can be found in the following room. This bomb squad really works for Fisk, however, and tries to attack Spider-Man from behind. Spider-Man defeats them, and after taking out the corrupt cops, Spider-Man walks into Fisk's office. Fisk activates the turrets nearby to fight Spider-Man.
With the turrets destroyed, Fisk enters the battle and fights Spider-Man himself. As the brawl continues, he grabs Spider-Man and throws him through a few walls before the fight enters another room, where several thugs join him. Eventually, Spider-Man captures Fisk, fully webbing him up, leaving him for the police.
Walkthrough
When the mission begins and players take control, tutorials begin for how to swing through the city. Swing through and follow the waypoint while dialogue takes place until reaching Times Square.
Upon reaching it, the basics of combat are taught, including how to dodge by paying attention to their Spider-Sense and how to use the Web Shooter to fire a web on an enemy, then spring in close to land a hit. Use these techniques to defeat the thugs, then when the second set of thugs arrives via dump trunk, armed, tutorials explain how to web up enemies, which can be used to beat the next group.
Following this, at the atrium in Fisk Tower, Spider-Man is now free to approach the thugs in the opposing room in order to take them out. This is when tutorials explain the importance of Focus, how to gain it, and how it benefits them. Afterwards, a small group emerges from one of the rooms above and starts firing down. Tutorials learn how to perform a Zip to Point move in order to gain that floor.
On the way to the server room, web to the next floor up as they come out of the duct to take out the thugs there. Proceed to the next floor, but instead of taking the direct approach through the door, take another air duct to enter the server room. A group of thugs awaits in the server room, and a countdown timer is displayed on the large computer screen showing how much time there is to defeat them.
After defeating them, following a cutscene, proceed out the door, where Spider-Man is greeted by an explosion that takes out the floor above. Move up through the floors, deal with thugs they meet along the way, and then meet up with the bomb unit. After hearing screams, they split up, with Spider-Man looking for victims of the explosions and bomb unit hurrying off to diffuse what they find.
Web up to a floor that is on fire and enter the smoke and flame-filled corridors. While doing so, Spider-Man will encounter a small handful of obstacles; use the web to pull a beam out of the way and lift debris off people by rapidly pressing square. Enter the ducts again until finding a bomb unit.
Upon finding the bomb unit, Spider-Man is met with rocket-launcher thugs; dodge their shots before taking them out, finishing on the floor above. Rip the doors off their hinges with webbing, continue to a corridor partially blocked with debris, then climb and jump up to enter into the next room to fight more. Once clear, the bomb squad can be found in the following room. These thugs are more difficult due to their riot shield, and to defeat them, dodging and getting behind them to attack is key. Enter the next room to begin the battle.
Fisk boss battle
Dodge the bullets from the turrets, then using the Web Shooter to gum them up. Once accomplished, use webbing further by ripping the turrets from their housings, destroying them.
Wilson Fisk then enters the battle after the last turret is destroyed. Be very mindful of dodging his thrown projectiles and, more importantly, his charge. Webbing him up works for a short period of time before he breaks free, so be sure to get a few shots on him before dodging and leaping away.
Once the first phase of the fight is complete, Fisk manages to grab Spider-Man and throw him through a few walls before the fight enters another room. Here, Fisk has several thugs join him, making the fight more difficult. There are several methods to successfully complete this part, but one of the easiest is to dodge around the room, then use webs to grab throwables objects to smash into his men. This tends to take them out quickly, and then players are faced with just Fisk again.
Fisk tends to take a nearly full Web Shooter in order to web up. Anything less than that and it only has minimal effect. Also, he can grab Spider-Man, wasting valuable time attempting to break free with repeated square button presses.
Near the end of the second phase, Fisk manages to grab Spider-Man and throw him to the ground. He attempts to smash into Spider-Man's head, but players need to pay attention to the button cues given them from here out in order to be successful.
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