Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is one of the most anticipated games of the year. And not without reason. Marvel’s Spider-Man is a fabulous game that, despite being an open world, knew how to perfectly combine the combat and stealth phases with the spectacular movement that is expected of a character like Spider-Man. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, on the other hand, knew how to expand the formula, taking it to a more intimate terrain in the narrative while emphasizing more aggressive mechanics in combat, giving a little twist to the formula that made it even more enjoyable than possible, apart from the pleasure of moving through the streets of Manhattan.
Now Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, released at the Comic-Con that is being held in California these days, offers us its story trailer where we get a glimpse of what to expect from the game at the narrative level. While it is true that it does not seem that many things are clarified, fans of the first game, and especially fans of the character, will have noticed that there are many threads that hint that this is not exactly going to be a short game or without conflict.
As we already know, in the game we will embody both Peter Parker and Miles Morales, with a particularity. Now Peter Parker will have the symbiote suit, which will give him a new set of powers. Something that seems to be very imbricated in the plot, as we can see in the trailer, with the concern of MJ, and the fact that Harry Osborn and his father, Norman Osborn, seem to have something to do with the symbiote. Considering that the trailer has confirmed that Venom will appear, and the developers confirmed in the past that Eddie Brocks will not appear in the video game, but Eddie seems concerned about his son’s condition, it’s not too hard to predict who Venom may become in this new iteration of the Spider-Man story.
Similarly, it seems that Miles Morales will have his own problems to deal with. While he will have to deal with the threat posed by the symbiote and deal with his friend and mentor being under its influence, a villain from the first game reappears: Mr. Negative. Which, as those who played Marvel’s Spider-Man know, is guilty of killing Miles’ father and almost killing him and his mother as well. So hopefully there will be at least some sort of closure in that area.
But we can’t skip what happens at the beginning of the trailer itself either. Suffering an attack from what looks like Grizzly, a supervillain who is a relatively unknown wrestling wrestler who after losing his legs got an exoskeleton that gave him superhuman strength plus a questionable grizzly bear costume, a brief gameplay scene gives way to what looks like it will be the other major villain of the story. Kraven The Hunter. A truly classic villain, who is going to get his own movie soon, who while he has relatively little screen time in this story trailer compared to Venom and the symbiote in general, will hopefully be of notable importance, as he was the star of the game’s first trailer.
With all these threads, it’s easy to imagine where the story of this Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will be heading. Kraven is a hunter. Symbiote is, if not a prey, at least an object of desire; one that also, in the purest Faustian realm, can offer powers beyond what is imaginable to mere mortals. And both Spider-Man, like Harry Osborn, have an extremely troubled relationship with their father figures that make them always looking for a way to redeem themselves in their face, which makes them easy prey for a symbiote. Something that we have already seen many times in the comic, which always works, and that it is difficult that in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 they are not able to give it a new interesting twist, now, by also involving Harry Osborn and Miles Morales at the same time.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will arrive on October 20 of this year exclusively for PlayStation 5. It is expected to arrive on PC at some point in the future, as did the previous two games, but nothing has been confirmed. The next Insomniac Games game after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is already in development and it is Marvel’s Wolverine; a game with no release date and which have not yet transcended more details, but in which we will embody Wolverine, of the X-Men. And which we hope to see, even as a wink, in this long-awaited Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.
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