Insomniac Games‘ 2018 Marvel Spider-Man getting a sequel is anything but a well-kept secret.

The game sold millions of copies, and since then, Sony Interactive Entertainment has fully acquired the studio, so SIE might be tasking them to work on the sequel of Peter Parker’s story. (Unless they are doing a Ratchet & Clank title, which was rumoured before.)

The following information originates from a Reddit throwaway account. There will be a holiday 2021 release date, probably September like PlayStation 4’s Marvel’s Spider-Man. The reveal will happen this summer. There will be no online co-op, it will be completely single-player. New York will feature Queens and Brooklyn. There will be new gameplay mechanics to facilitate the low building traversal. (The whole city isn’t just skyscrapers after all…)

The game is set during winter, about 5-6 months after the first game. Peter is still mourning Aunt May, and he constantly reminds himself of what happened. He lives together with Mary Jane, but she is away for the entire first act of the story. Oscorp is attempting to clone certain DNA to build a super-soldier. Goes wrong. New villains spawn from this. Harry Osborn will become Venom but it’s going to be a unique take. Carnage and Mysterio are also in the game, not to mention Eddie Brock (someone we may know as Venom the most…), and he is a major character. Miles, an alternative Spider-Man, is playable in sections of the game. The devs are unsure whether to let the player free roam as him but it isn’t being thrown out completely just yet.

Arkham Knight’s system where you could switch to the other Bat-family characters in certain situations will also be implemented. There will also be a new „Web-Chain” mechanic – you can chain together web „zips” so when you reach a point, he immediately zips to the next and so on. The web-swinging was overhauled. They’ve gone all out on the animation tech this time, so we won’t see the same animation as much, more variety, not only are they bringing the animations from PS4 over for the swing releases, they’re adding many more. They have two animators devoted completely and solely to the web release animations throughout the entire development cycle. There will be three swing modes. Realistic, Arcade and Hybrid. (Naming still not final). Realistic is very Spider-Man 2-esque in that it’s just pure physics. Arcade is a little „fake” assistance. and hybrid is a merge of the two, basically the swinging from the first game.

Keep in mind that nothing is confirmed of the above.

Source: VG247

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