Fans are rallying to save Insomniac’s canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game with a petition that is rapidly gaining signatures. Just a few months after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launched to much critical and commercial success, Insomniac fell victim to a massive data breach that exposed the studio’s ideas for future Marvel video games. Included in this was Spider-Man: The Great Web, an online multiplayer title that would allow players to roam an open-world sandbox version of New York City and battle supervillains together.
More details about Spider-Man: The Great Web were recently leaked, including a concept trailer that highlighted what the title’s gameplay would have looked like had it not been canceled by Insomniac before the now-infamous ransomware attack. Like the recent animated Spider-Man movies, Spider-Man: The Great Web would have utilized Marvel’s multiverse to explain why there are multiple Spider-heroes swinging around New York. The Scarlet Witch would have played a major role in the game’s story, using her powers to open portals to different realities and unleashing various threats for the players to combat.
Ever since the Spider-Man: The Great Web trailer was unearthed earlier this week, fans have started to lament how the game never materialized and ask for Insomniac to release the game after all. As spotted by TheGamer, this has led to an online petition on Change.org, organized by Henry Hughes with the goal of gathering enough signatures to convince Sony and Insomniac to bring back their canceled Spider-Man multiplayer title. Over 1,500 signatures have been collected over the past 24 hours, a day after the petition first went live.
While Spider-Man: The Great Web was reportedly scrapped a long time before the Insomniac data breach revealed its existence, related leaks suggest that the developer could be looking to revisit the idea of an online multiplayer Spider-Man experience by adding a new mode in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Additionally, the multiverse was teased at the end of one of Spider-Man 2’s side quests, and this may or may not have been meant to set up Spider-Man: The Great Web’s dimension-hopping storyline.
There are plenty of people who want to play Spider-Man: The Great Web now that they’ve gotten a better idea of what it would have been like, as evidenced by the massive amount of signatures Henry Hughes’s petition to bring the game back from the void of cancelation has already gathered. This might not necessarily lead to Insomniac restarting its work on its formerly planned Spider-Man multiplayer game, but it does make a strong case that fans like the idea of an online sandbox centered around Marvel’s most iconic superhero.
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Concept art for Insomniac’s canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game has just been leaked online, including a possible look at the title’s character creation screen. Insomniac infamously fell victim to a massive ransomware attack just a few months after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swung onto the PlayStation 5, exposing much of the developer’s plans for future Marvel video games. Among already confirmed titles like Marvel’s Wolverine and long-suspected projects centered around Venom and the X-Men was a game that Insomniac had reportedly already canceled long before the data breach: an online multiplayer title called Spider-Man: The Great Web.
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