Marvel’s Spider-Man 2‘s latest gameplay footage has revealed that Peter Parker will be wearing the iconic black symbiote suit during a portion of the game’s story. The symbiote was previously teased in both Marvel’s Spider-Man and Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, with Norman Osborn and Curt Connors using it to treat Harry Osborn’s terminal illness, which his mother died of years prior.
In the new gameplay, Peter uses the symbiote to fight off Kraven’s squad of hunters, who are attempting to track down Dr. Curt Connors after his transformation into The Lizard. Peter can be seen fighting more aggressively with his symbiote-enhanced attacks, wiping out entire groups of hunters and vehicles with the suit’s tendrils.
In Ultimate Spider-Man, the suit had a physical toll on its wearer unless it was constantly fed. While this has been popularized in the Venom movies, it doesn’t seem to be the case in this gameplay, with Insomniac taking a more traditional approach to the symbiote’s corruption. Ultimately, Peter realizes the hold the symbiote has on him, mainly through his treatment of his loved ones, such as Mary Jane, and gets rid of it. Upon separation, the symbiote finds a new host and Venom is born.
It’s unclear how the symbiote ends up in Manhattan, but in most comics, it is an alien being. In its first appearance during the 1984 Secret Wars comics arc, Peter acquires it when he discovers a machine thought to be a fabric replicator upon damaging his original costume in battle. It’s unlikely that this is the case in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, as the symbiote has already been in Manhattan for a while as part of Harry’s experimental treatment.
The symbiote could still have originally fallen from space, as it does in most Spider-Man media. This may have been how Osborn and Connors acquired it, and Insomniac’s use of H.R. Geiger-esque texturing on the comic-accurate suit does make it feel alien. However, its use for the treatment of Harry’s terminal illness indicates that it could be man-made, much like the Venom suit in Ultimate Spider-Man, which was developed by Peter Parker and Eddie Brock’s parents as a potential cure for cancer. This would be more in keeping with Insomniac’s choice of villains so far, who have been largely science-enhanced.
2023-05-28 10:00:03
Original from screenrant.com