It's the end of the road for Marvel's Spider-Man, as the final chapter in The City That Never Sleeps DLC looks ready to close the book on a wild ride of gang warfare and stolen mercenary technology.

Video games are more than their just their visuals, but there are times where a certain game can deliver a 4K haymaker that’ll knock you out of your shoes. With the gap between virtual and reality visuals becoming narrower every single day, here’s a look at the games which made that graphical gap even smaller in 2018.

You could say that every game is an action game technically, but for this category? We’re talking about the games that had a very specific kind of action. The games that swung swords, gave the richest of explosions and landed the most devastating haymakers possible were what we were after this year, and 2018 didn’t disappoint.

We saw the glory of a war god reborn, we felt the joy of navigating through New York City while spinning webs and we faced stories of a personal nature on a scale that may have been more indie in design but was truly epic in scope. How do you even begin to sum up 2018? How do you condense a year’s worth of gaming into any single rewards category? Well the Game Awards 2018 certainly did just that, with results that probably weren’t surprising.

The right game at the right time can still do gangbusters in December, once the dust of the October and November Blitzkrieg has settled down. So what’s on the way next month? Explosions, a final chapter of web-slinging action and plenty more.

Spider-Men a’plenty are currently neck-deep in a new war against the Inheritors in the Spider-Geddon event, and the arachnid army is in need of some reinforcements. Thanks to the Marvel omniverse having plenty of extra dimensions, the web warriors have plenty of allies to pick from. Including one grizzled law enforcer, who plays by his own rules and always follows his gut: Spider-Cop!

Marvel's Spider-Man: Turf Wars is more of the same, but it's far from being a middling middle episode. ‘Nuff said, true believers.

New York is a city that built its legend on gangs. The five boroughs of the infamous big apple was rotten to the core with all manner of illicit activities during the turbulent 1800s, a period which eventually saw the mob rise to prominence during the Prohibition era as bootleggers and legbreakers made a name for themselves on the city …