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Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is an action-adventure video game based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. It is the third overall entry in the Marvel's Spider-Man series, acting as a sequel to Marvel's Spider-Man (2018), as well as a direct continuation of events from its DLC expansion The City That Never Sleeps and the standalone spin-off Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020). A prequel comic was released on May 1, 2023, ahead of the game's planned release date.
Gameplay[]
Overview[]
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will explore different locations within New York City besides outer Manhattan, such as Queens, Brooklyn, and Coney Island. Both Peter Parker and Miles Morales are playable as Spider-Men, with a different set of abilities: Peter Parker can use two different suit powers between Iron Arms and Symbiotes to gives him abilities that greatly improve his combat prowess and ability to defeat multiple goons at once, while Miles Morales has his unique abilities such as Camouflage invisibility and his venom-blast.
Additionally, the bar-based Focus-system return from the first game, meaning Miles' Bio Electric Venom Power from his spin-off game being integrated to L1-based Power Gauge system alongside the Peter's own Power Gauge system.
Traversal[]
Traversal mechanics have been expanded since the original Marvel's Spider-Man. The ability to propel forward by using webs as a slingshot allows Peter and Miles to travel faster through the city. Additionally, both of their suits now have "Web Wings", which allow them to glide through the city.
Equipment[]
The Spider-Men have access to new gadgets, including a gadget that can create a web to tightrope across, and a mine that can pull at least three enemies toward it at once, taking out multiple enemies at a time.
Suits[]
Suit Power from the first game and both Visor and Suit Mods from Miles Morales are replaced with selectable alternate color palettes, Suit Style. As a result, almost every suits has unique features, depends on which suits Spider-Men wore since one of the two returning suits (namely Programmable Matter and Bodega Cat Suits) from Miles Morales.
For Peter Parker, after gaining the power of symbiotes, Symbiote Surge transformation ability will temporarily change his suit to a symbiote suit for a short period. While entering Symbiote Surge, Peter will start out wearing a a rage form of his Venom Symbiote Suit in the Act 2, before being replaced with wearing Anti-Venom Symbiote Suit as of Act 3. Nevertheless, both rage form of Venom and Anti-Venom Symbiote Suits can still be unlocked as selectable normal suits without needing to enter Symbiote Surge.
Plot[]
Peter Parker starts his first day as a teacher at Miles Morales' school, but they are interrupted by an attack by Flint Marko, requiring both of them to subdue him. Peter is fired for abandoning the class and returns to his Aunt May's home in Queens, which he has moved in following May's death. Both Peter and Mary Jane are surprised to see Harry Osborn, who has miraculously recovered from his terminal illness. Harry offers to hire Peter to work at his new startup, the Emily-May Foundation, so they can "heal the world." Meanwhile, Miles tries to write his college application essay and learns that his mother Rio has begun dating.
When Peter and Miles go to oversee a transfer of some of the Raft's inmates, they witness an attack by Kraven the Hunter and his forces, who capture the Scorpion and Martin Li. Investigating Kraven, Peter discovers that he is capturing super-powered individuals to hunt them for sport. Having already killed the Scorpion, Kraven attempts to capture Felicia Hardy next, but the Spider-Men protect and help her escape to Paris. While visiting Coney Island in an attempt to reconnect, Peter, Mary Jane and Harry witness Kraven's hunters attack the park to capture Tombstone. Harry assists Peter in rescuing civilians caught in the crossfire, and learns about his double life while also revealing that he was cured by a black organic symbiote that physically augments his body.
With his powers rapidly developing, Harry decides to help Peter rescue Tombstone while Mary Jane discovers that Curt Connors has been kidnapped by Kraven. Peter and Harry attempt to save Connors, but are too late to prevent Kraven from forcibly turning him back into his Lizard form. Connors escapes while Peter is mortally wounded by Kraven, though he is saved by Harry's symbiote, which transfers itself to his body. After Peter confronts Kraven in his new black suit, which augments his powers, the latter develops an interest in hunting him personally.
After Peter and Harry synthesize an antidote for Connors, the former tracks Connors down with Miles' help, and is eventually able to defeat and cure him. Upon seeing Peter wear the exosuit, Connors explains that it is in fact a sentient alien symbiote and warns him to destroy it, but Peter, under the symbiote's influence, refuses. Meanwhile, Miles is captured by Kraven and forced to fight Li to the death. Overcoming his anger towards Li for killing his father, Miles helps him escape and directs him to find Peter. Upon being informed of Miles' location by Li, Peter arrives to rescue him and nearly kills Kraven before Miles intervines, convincing Peter to remove the symbiote.
Peter takes the symbiote to Oscorp to destroy it, but a desperate Harry, whose illness has returned, intercepts him and takes back possession of the symbiote, which transforms him into Venom. Venom escapes and battles Kraven, whom he overpowers and kills. Under the symbiote's influence, Harry then decides to "heal the world" by infecting it with symbiotes, beginning with New York. As Peter and Miles attempt to stop the symbiote invasion, the former is infected by another symbiote, but is able to tame it with the help of Miles and Li. Meanwhile, Venom recovers the meteorite that originally brought the symbiote to Earth, which allows him to speed up his invasion. Peter and Miles distract Venom while Mary Jane steals the meteorite and destroys it with a particle accelerator, which also destroys all the symbiotes, including Venom.
In the aftermath, Harry is saved but rendered comatose, which prompts Norman Osborn to order that the "G-serum" be used on him. Mary Jane quits her job at the Daily Bugle to run her own podcast and moves in with Peter, who decides to take a break from being Spider-Man to focus on rebuilding the Emily-May Foundation, trusting Miles to protect the city as its sole Spider-Man. Osborn visits an imprisoned Otto Octavius at the Raft to demand the secret identity of the Spider-Men, whom he blames for Harry's condition; Octavius refuses to disclose it, taking glee in Osborn's suffering as he writes his "final chapter." Meanwhile, Miles meets Rio's new boyfriend, Albert Moon, who introduces them to his daughter Cindy.