Tom Holland's Spider-Man 4 is reportedly searching for a new director to replace the Homecoming trilogy's Jon Watts, and one of the rumored contenders comes from the Fast and Furious franchise.
12.03.2024 - 17:43 / radiotimes.com / Peter Parker / Miles Morales / Gwen Stacy
A trailer has leaked online for Spider-Man: The Great Web, a multiplayer game that got some way into development at Insomniac Games before being cancelled.
Insomniac is the company behind 2018's massively popular Spider-Man PS4 game. It has since released two follow-ups, Miles Morales in 2020 and the brilliant Spider-Man 2 in 2023.
The company was hit by hackers late last year, with a huge amount of confidential detail leaking online, including early information about the upcoming Wolverine game from Insomniac.
If you followed the leaks at the time, you will have already heard that Insomniac has dabbled with an idea for a multiplayer Spider-Man game. The game, as far as we know, is never going to be finished and released.
We opted not to cover the news at the time, but it's hard to ignore now that the trailer is doing the rounds online and even hugely respected outlets like Forbes have picked up the story.
The Spider-Man multiplayer trailer has been visible on X/Twitter for eight hours with no signs of being taken down. The game, it seems, would have been called Spider-Man: The Great Web. Some of the graphics are far from finished, but it really gives you a flavour of what this game could've been.
Featuring a voiceover from Insomniac's Peter Parker voice actor of choice, the brilliant Yuri Lowenthal, the trailer shows multiple versions of Spider-Man fighting together to protect New York and take on iconic villains like The Sinister Six.
Playable characters seem to include Gwen Stacy, Venom and various versions of Peter Parker and Miles Morales. The combat looks to have the same combos and gadgets blend that players know well from Insomniac's single-player efforts.
With characters jumping into portals and seeming to visit each other from different dimensions, it seems the game had some shared DNA with the fantastic movies Into the Spider-Verse, Across the Spider-Verse and Beyond the Spider-Verse. (If you've played Spider-Man 2 to 100 per cent completion, you'll know the game does have some connective tissue to the movie multiverse.)
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It's no secret that live-service games, meaning ongoing multiplayer experiences that get updated over a lengthy period with new seasonal content, are a hot topic at the moment.
Marvel's Avengers game and DC's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have both already tried to make superhero live-service games happen, with neither seeming to capture a mainstream audience for the longterm.
With both of those games struggling to find success, especially in a
Tom Holland's Spider-Man 4 is reportedly searching for a new director to replace the Homecoming trilogy's Jon Watts, and one of the rumored contenders comes from the Fast and Furious franchise.
Fast traveling, one of the most impressive features of both the PlayStation 5 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2, was also a point of much discussion in development and almost cut as a result. While the PlayStation 5's processing speed allows for quicker gameplay, developers of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 worried that this might lead to less player engagement. The game's design director commented on this.
Following their big moment at the end of Amazing Spider-Man #45, the Sinister Six are officially returning with their classic line-up of Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Vulture, Electro, Kraven, and Mysterio in Amazing Spider-Man #51.
Despite releasing in late October 2023, there still haven't been any Funko Pops to accompany the game. In comparison, a Funko Pop of Peter's Advanced suit was released months before the first, with the wave of figures following the games adding an unmasked Peter Parker, Mary Jane, Miles Morales, and Mr. Negative. This could be due to change soon, however, as the first wave of Funko Pops from Insomniac's sequel has been leaked.
Spider-Man: The Great Web has been a big talk lately, especially after its cancellation. However, fans, everyone keeps hyping up what this game could have been in hopes maybe Sony will pick it back up, but it seems iffy. This game would have been the first Spider-Man to be multiplayer recently, allowing you and a friend to both play as a Spidey, whether that be Peter Parker himself or another from the Spider-Verse.
The developers of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 revealed that they struggled to get the Sandman boss fight right due to how fast Spider-Man is. During this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC), associate animation director for Insomniac Stephen Camardella revealed that it was incredibly hard to get the pacing of the fight against Sandman in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 just right. Camardella states that due to Spider-Man's speed, it was a challenge to make sure the fight was fair and fun.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developers have taken to the stage at GDC, shedding some light on their work. This includes an interesting tidbit about the development of the Sandman boss, and how challenging it was to balance the fight in the villain's favour.
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.
Between the release of 's New Game Plus update accidentally granting players access to the game's developer menu, and the hacker group Rhysida sharing over a terabyte of files, players have got a better idea of what features were removed from Insomniac's superhero sequel. These leaks have also revealed other games in the works at Insomniac, such as a canceled, type multiplayer title, and a potential spin-off.
Following the leaks for Insomniac's canceled , players have been able to get a better idea of what the studio's multiplayer game would have entailed, with a multiversal storyline featuring some of the most popular Spider-people battling iconic foes. While many fans have expressed their disappointment with the cancelation of the game, leading to online petitions to bring it back, Insomniac and Sony's decision may have been the right call.
If you're looking to dust off that original Xbox and play Halo 2 but wish you could hop on the servers like you did in the late 2000s, well, now you can, thanks to a group of devoted fans.
Ever since suffering a catastrophic leak back in December 2023, plans regarding almost all of developer Insomniac Games' titles have been made public, with more and more info being released at a steady pace. Over the past few months, we've seen trailers and early builds of Marvel's Wolverine leak, release windows for future titles, and a trailer for an already canceled multiplayer Spider-Man game called The Great Web which fans are desperate to try and save.