Before Marvel’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man launched in 2018, I had one requirement for the game, and one requirement only: the swinging had to feel good. If 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Insomniac nailed that, like Treyarch did back in the day with Spider-Man 2, we were ꧃in business. If it didn’t, the game was DOA. Insomniac pulled it off and was rewarded with a version of the line “Marvel’s Spider-Man truly makes♓ you feel like Spider-Man” in every single review.
As Insomniac kicks the PR campaign into gear for its own 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man 2, I’m 🌱not even thinking about the swinging. That’s a known quantity. Inst🌞ead, all I’m excited for is the story.
This started back at the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:PlayStation Showcase, when Sony provided a deep dive on the sequel. There were reasons to be excited about the gameplay, to be sure, and I even 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:wrote about how cool it is to see a version of GTA 5’s protagonist swap system being implemented so you can switch back and f🔯orth betweeওn Peter and Miles. But the biggest hook, for me at least, were the bits of the narrative that Insomniac began to reveal.
There was the cool intro, which showed Kraven getti𓆉ng the better of another hunter in a ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ situation, then deciding to move from the jungle to New York on a safari of the Big Apple’s greatest heroes and villains. The presentation later added the wrinkle that the Lizard is a threat in the background, shedding skin and growing progressively larger throughout the game. There’s the interpersonal conflict that will likely play out between Peter and everyone who cares a🀅bout him, particularly Miles who sees him after he’s bonded with the Symbiote. That plays into the conceit that, through the protagonist swapping system, you’ll be able to play both sides of Peter’s descent and eventual redemption.
Information revealed at 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Summer Game Fest made this even more interesting. During the show, director Bryan Intihar came onstage to announce the game’s October 20, 2023 release date, and present artwork that showed Peter and Miles in the midst of a fight with Venom. Intihar noted that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:this Venom isn’t Eddie Brock — Peter Parker’s frenemy who has traditionally worn the symbiote suit. That lends the ga♐me another big question heading in. If the clues dropped in the first game are any indication, this Venom is almost certainly Harry Osborn. Regardless of whether thꩵe mystery ends up being as easily solvable as it seems, though, it provides another angle of dramatic tension for the game to explore.
My main worry though is that there may 🍌just be too many evil cooks in Hell’s Kitchen. I like Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 okay, but the biggest problem that movie struggles to overcome is that it has one villain too many. You can do the multiple villains approach if none of them get too much screen time like the first Spider-Man game did by having Peter fight his way through the Sinister Six over the course of one night. But Spider-Man 2 seems to be setting Kraven, Venom, and the Lizard up as major antagonists, all wh⭕ile balancing two main characters, one of whom will likely become an antagonist himself, keeping Black Cat in the game and adding Wraith, both of whom will need decent screen time after their role in the first game. A 30-hour game works differently than a 2.5 hour film, but it still feels like the sheer numbers could give the game a lack of focus.
Still, it’s the fact that there is a question mark there that makes the game compelling. I know the swinging and combat will be good, and that the stealth will likely be improved. I don’t know if the story will be good, but there are a l🔯ot of reasons I’m excited to find out.