If you read 20 years of comics, I'd be stunned if there are any games where you are a superhero that aren't things you've read/seen a dozen times before. Let alone your next comic.

Combat hasn't become a pain in the ass for me as you can easily avoid "pointless" combat in the game. If you only want to do the missions, you can quite happily outrun the enemies if you really want to. But yeah, the ease of combat and "difficulty increases" in combat are no different to any other shooter. You have your standard gun (bolt), your grenades, your sniper. So I wouldn't say that the combat was somehow much worse than other third person shooters out there.

I definitely wouldn't associate the game with a beat'em'up. Definitely would associate it with the Uncharted style of gameplay, ie a third person shooter where you can climb on walls and stuff.