New Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Story Trailer Features Plenty Of Venom And Symbiote Action

PlayStation and developer Insomniac Games have released a new story trailer for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

The trailer, which was shown at a San Diego Comic Con-related panel, features a lot of Peter Parker, Miles Morales and MJ. Kraven is also featured, as well as a bit of Lizard action. Venom, of course, makes an appearance. While the last showing of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 focused on gameplay, today’s is all about the narrative, and it seems to be teasing who our Venom might be.

Check it out for yourself below in the new Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 story trailer:

This trailer shows us Harry for the first time (outside the green liquid in which we last saw him), Hunter, the Lizard and Venom. It looks to be a lot of fun. The story seems to be a good bit darker than Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, too, especially with Peter Parker struggling to contain the darkness that the symbiote brings out within him.

PlayStation has also released some new details from the game’s narrative director, Jon Paquette:

“At the beginning of our story, our Spider-Men are at the top of their game,” Paquette writes in a PlayStation Blog post. “But both Peter Parker and Miles Morales are struggling with their personal lives. Miles Morales wants to finish his college application essay but keeps putting it off. He is more interested in Spider-Work. Meanwhile, Peter is underwater on payments for Aunt May’s house, but he can’t sell, it means too much to him. Peter, too, struggles to maintain a balance between his many responsibilities. MJ wants Pete to pay the mortgage. But her job may be on the line, now that J. Jonah Jameson has returned to the Bugle to do a thorough cleaning. Our heroes have arrived at a confluence of crossroads, with uncertain futures, and some tough decisions ahead.”

As if that wasn’t enough, Kraven arrives soon after, and the Spider-Men and friends must determine why he’s in New York City and who he’s hunting. The Venom symbiote also makes an appearance in town and presents the Spider-Men with a new set of problems.

Surprisingly, we get a quick snippet of Martin Li, aka Mister Negative, one of the antagonists of Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Miles isn’t too thrilled to see him either.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 creative director Bryan Intihar says he and Insomniac Games have always thought of the Spider-Men as “acrobatic improvisers,” and that the studio wanted to equip them with new combat abilities to demonstrate this further.

“This includes Pete’s Spider-Arms and Symbiote power, while Miles now brings two forms of bioelectric Venom to every fight,” Intihar writes in the blog post. “And when you start combining these abilities with all-new Spider-Gadgets like the Web Grabber, it can lead to some exciting combos.”

Peter and Miles also swing to other places in the video, including Brooklyn and Queens, as well as the East River. Coney Island is also featured.

“We are really excited for people to try out the Web Slings,” senior game director Ryan Smith writes in the blog. “For us, it was a cool opportunity to bring something people have seen in comics and movies and integrate it in the game. The core Spider-Man movement is swinging. So we created the Web Wings so that they would complement and work in conjunction with it. So you can alternate between both to gain speed and height.

“When you use the Web Slings with our wind tunnels, though, that’s one of the ways to go across the city super-fast and really push the speed of traversal, which was one of our goals.”

In the PlayStation Blog post, Paquette says when the team knew it’d be telling a Venom story, there’d be a “bit of a tonal 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? Our heroes will be forced to fight darkness in its many forms with the addition of the symbiote. Our goal was to make them feel their impact on others and see how they change. And when Venom takes control, they face the real danger that they could lose themselves, and their loved ones, forever.”

Senior art director Jacinda Chew says the game’s Venom is inspired by the comics, but with a “unique take on the white spider icon” and the anatomy of a human. Venom can also be seen using tendrils in a variety of forms.

Insomniac Games also revealed a new limited edition Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PlayStation 5 bundle, including a custom PS5 console cover design and a matching DualSense controller. This bundle includes a digital version of the game. Pre-orders begin on July 28, and the PS5 covers and DualSense can be purchased separately. On September 1, the console will come with all its accessories.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 hits PlayStation 5 on October 20.

For more about Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, watch the original reveal trailer and a gameplay trailer from earlier this summer. Read about how the game’s tone is comparable to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back after that, and then read about the game being confirmed to be single-player.

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