Venom's voice actor, Tony Todd, has revealed that Spider-Man 2 was originally going to include scenes where Miles Morales was wearing a Symbiote suit, but that they got cut from the final game.
11.11.2023 - 15:35 / screenrant.com / Peter Parker / Miles Morales
While is one of the biggest releases of the year, it also came with a number of bugs, which a recent update has helped to alleviate — unfortunately, the patch has also removed a hidden exploit that allowed players to free-roam the city as Venom. The first game in the series to feature both Peter Parker and Miles Morales as playable protagonists, also had a major focus on adapting the popular symbiote storyline from the classic comics, including the introduction of iconic Spider-Man villain Venom alongside fellow Marvel antagonists Sandman and Kraven.
While much of revolves around the symbiote and its effects on Peter Parker, affecting the way the story plays out and giving him new abilities to differentiate his gameplay from Miles, it also inevitably marks the introduction of an adapted version of Venom. However, as Kraven takes up the main villain role for much of the game's first half, Venom's first full appearance doesn't come until a story mission relatively far in the game — where players get to take control of the character and fight enemies with a unique moveset and abilities that don't appear anywhere else in the game. However, by using an exploit, players could continue to play as Venom in free-roam.
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Unfortunately, a recent patch for has removed the exploit — a glitch that allowed players to break out of the bounds of the story mission while playing as Venom and get back to free-roaming the city while still controlling him. Similar glitches were found for story sections where other characters, like MJ, were playable, but the Venom glitch was especially popular, as it allowed players to access a sort of third «Spider-Man» playstyle, with heavier attacks and different abilities from either Peter or Miles.
The exploit, which no longer works, involved using an interaction with Venom's wall-climbing and one of his abilities to climb up the side of the building during an encounter with Kraven's forces in Times Square, breaking out of the bounds of the story mission and out into the wider city.
While the amount of players who would have known about and used the glitch is likely only a small portion of the game's wider audience, the removal of a relatively harmless bug has been somewhat unpopular — exacerbated by the inability to replay missions in, a feature which Insomniac Games have confirmed is in the works. Now, to replay the Venom sections, players would have to either restart the game or keep a save just before the start of the story mission where they happen. Even then, playing Venom in the same exact sections multiple times wouldn't be nearly as interesting as getting to take him out into free-roam.
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Venom's voice actor, Tony Todd, has revealed that Spider-Man 2 was originally going to include scenes where Miles Morales was wearing a Symbiote suit, but that they got cut from the final game.
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