Insomniac released a new Spider-Man 2 trailer during SDCC 2023, and while Peter and Miles are the Marvel game’s focus, it’s Venom who steals the show. The trailer highlights Spider-Man 2’s story setup, and compared to the first game and Miles Morales, it’s a bit grim.
Miles is having trouble with his college entrance preparation and uses his work as a Spider-Man to avoid having to deal with it. Peter, meanwhile, is behind on payments for Aunt May’s house and has a psychopathic hunter tracking him through the city, and MJ is at risk of losing her job as the newspaper cleans house.
Basically, no one is happy – except Peter’s best friend. He has a “new lease on life” outlook and wants to change the world with Peter, which is nice, except Peter is kind of in a depressive spiral. That makes him the Symbiote’s perfect target, and when Peter lets his darkness take over, it shatters his friend’s dream of a perfect world built with heroism. All this darkness and misery creates the ideal setting for Venom to appear, and you might not completely recognize him either.
“While the look of [Venom] and several of his powers/abilities should be familiar to fans, this will be a unique Venom story.” Insomniac senior creative director Bryan Intihar said in a new PlayStation Blog post. “When we decided to craft a Venom story, we knew we’d be making a bit of a tone shift. The best symbiote stories serve as an allegory: We all have darkness inside of us– but what would happen if we let it take over?”
“We wanted to see them change, both inside and outside, and feel the effect it has on those around them. And when Venom takes control, they face the real danger that they could lose themselves, and their loved ones, forever.”
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launches for PS5 on Oct. 20, 2023.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
