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Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 is scheduled for release in the autumn of 2023 only for the PlayStation 5, and the game’s creative director recently cleared up fan uncertainty regarding when it will take place in relation to Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the series’ previous installment.
Fans recently got their first peek at Spider-Man 2 gameplay at Sony’s PlayStation Showcase, and many thought it did not disappoint. The Kraven the Hunter and the Lizard will both play a role in the game’s plot, according to the Showcase, which also featured several brand-new gameplay elements. This installment will “continue the journey of both,” as opposed to the first two games in the series, which only featured Miles Morales or Peter Parker. When the future game would take place on the Miles Morales timeline was a question that Creative Director Brian Intihar for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 was posed during an interview with Press Start.
Spider-Man 2 will occur “about 10 months after the events of Miles Morales,” according to Intihar, who also hinted that Peter and Miles “are a great team” at this point in the narrative. “It’s about 10 months after the events of Miles Morales, so Miles has kind of gone through his journey to understand what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be and him and Peter are a great team. And that’s kind of where we kick things off at the beginning of this game.”
Miles Morales is set about one year later, in 2020, whereas Marvel’s Spider-Man’s plot takes place from October 2018 to February 2019. It is implied that Spider-Man 2 will be set in 2021 because it has been stated that it takes place “about 10 months after” the second game. Venom, Kraven the Hunter, and the Lizard are just a few of the many villains that Spider-Man 2 is expected to have. Peter Parker will adopt the Symbiote suit at some point in the game’s narrative, according to the gameplay footage for the next game.
Additionally, it was hinted that Miles would eventually see how the symbiote was impacting Peter. It is extremely conceivable that at some time in the game, Miles and Peter may clash. This being stated, the main concern is how long Peter and the Symbiote will actually spend together in the game’s narrative. Although it is obviously impossible to make predictions, Spider-Man 2 will most likely take place over a period of three to four months, much like the first game’s plot. That would imply that the game would finish everywhere in the universe.
The PlayStation 5 will be the only platform for the autumn 2023 release of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.