https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa8dey/sony-says-spider-man-is-not-a-murderer

One thing that's interesting and cool about superhero video games is that the most popular superheroes don't kill their enemies. That's how most video games handle conflict resolution: You kill the bad guys. The best example of this is one of my favorite video games, 2016’s Doom, in which the Doomslayer gleefully murders his way to victory, even when more sensible solutions are possible.

Superman, on the other hand, could melt Lex Luthor's head with his eyes or fly through 100 henchmen’s torsos at the speed of light, chopping them in half, but he doesn't, because he's an American hero or whatever. The same is true for Marvel's Spider-Man, a PlayStation 4 exclusive we at Motherboard generally liked a lot and that is already proving to be a huge critical and commercial success.