When you see a 100MB link for a AAA game, it usually falls into one of three categories: A Downloader/Installer:

The Amazing Spider-Man is an action-adventure game developed by Beenox and published by Activision. Released in 2012, the game is based on the Marvel Comics superhero of the same name. The game follows Spider-Man as he tries to uncover a conspiracy involving a supervillain. For PC gamers, a highly compressed version of the game, weighing in at around 100MB, has become popular due to its smaller file size.

Is it the best Spider-Man game ever made? No. That title belongs to Insomniac.

It’s not a hidden gem—it’s a trap. You’ll waste hours, risk your PC’s security, and end up with nothing playable.

However, there is a historical context that explains why this myth persists. Two decades ago, during the era of the PlayStation 1 and early PC gaming, highly compressed "rips" were common. Games like Spider-Man 2000 or Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro could be significantly compressed because their file sizes were naturally small to begin with. A generation of gamers who grew up trading games in cyber cafes or on slow internet connections internalized the belief that any game can be compressed to a few megabytes. This nostalgia, combined with a lack of technical knowledge regarding modern game development, fuels the continued search for these impossible files.