Spider-Man was recently added to the roster of characters you can play as on PlayStation platforms. Considering how popular of a character Spider-Man is, you can imagine how excited people were to learn this. Especially considering that this comes from a collaboration between Marvel Studios and Sony.
Which developers, Creative Director Shaun Escayg and Combat Director Vince Napoli touched upon in a recent interview. Wccftech interviewed Escayg and Napoli, who said that Spider-Man will have his own story arc in the game. Here’s that interview:
Interview With Shaun Escayg and Vince Napoli
Wccftech: Many of those angry fans have also pointed out that you won’t be able to meaningfully include Spider-Man in the ongoing story since he cannot appear at all on PC, Xbox, or Stadia. Can you comment on that?
Shaun Escayg: Without obviously giving any spoilers, the window where you will see our version of Spider-Man will fit into our story. Again, I have to obviously dance around it because I can’t speak to it. But just know that this is our Spider-Man, he will be in our story and will fit in that world, sort of in that gap what happened A-Day and between then and now, even the villains that support that will kind of speak to how he belongs in this world and how long he lives in this world.
Vince Napoli: Spider-Man is in addition to the arc and progression of the main story as well. There was no swapping or anything else in that line. We’ve got our plan, we’ve got our heroes that are coming out and the stories and the challenges and the gameplay escalation that we’ve planned out. That’s all continuing as planned. And then just on top of all that stuff, we’ve also got Spider-Man now and you know, he’s weaving into that, that is the key. There is no swapping or changing anything to kind of accommodate that. He’s got to fit within the massive plan and all of that stuff we’ve already got. It’s like, Sony went ‘Hey, can you add this on top of it, as a sort of a cherry on top of that?’ But he doesn’t affect or change that in any way. That plan is still moving forward as originally planned and conceived with all the original expansion stuff in mind.
Wccftech: Is it fair to say that it will be kind of a self-contained story arc for him in Marvel’s Avengers?
Shaun Escayg: Absolutely, yeah.
Spider-Man will be launched early next year as a free DLC addition to Marvel’s Avengers. This will be available on both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Are you excited?
Source: Wccftech
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