Summary
Fans are rallying to save Insomniac’s canceledSpider-Manmultiplayer game with a petition that is rapidly gaining signatures. Just a few months afterMarvel’s Spider-Man 2launched to much critical and commercial success, Insomniac fell victim to a massive data breach that exposed the studio’s ideas for future Marvel video games. Included in this wasSpider-Man: The Great Web, an online multiplayer title that would allow players to roam an open-world sandbox version of New York City and battle supervillains together.
More details aboutSpider-Man: The Great Webwere recently leaked, including a concept trailer that highlighted what the title’s gameplay would have looked like had it not been canceled by Insomniac before the now-infamous ransomware attack. Like the recent animatedSpider-Manmovies,Spider-Man:The Great Webwould have utilized Marvel’s multiverseto explain why there are multiple Spider-heroes swinging around New York. The Scarlet Witch would have played a major role in the game’s story, using her powers to open portals to different realities and unleashing various threats for the players to combat.
Ever since theSpider-Man: The Great Webtrailer was unearthed earlier this week, fans have started to lament how the game never materialized and ask for Insomniac to release the game after all. Asspotted by TheGamer, this has led to an online petition onChange.org, organized by Henry Hughes with the goal of gathering enough signatures to convince Sony and Insomniac to bring back theircanceledSpider-Manmultiplayer title. Over 1,500 signatures have been collected over the past 24 hours, a day after the petition first went live.
Fans Are Rallying To Save Spider-Man: The Great Web
WhileSpider-Man: The Great Webwas reportedly scrapped a long time before the Insomniac data breach revealed its existence, related leaks suggest that the developer could be looking to revisit the idea of an online multiplayerSpider-Manexperience byadding a new mode inMarvel’s Spider-Man 2. Additionally, the multiverse was teased at the end of one ofSpider-Man 2’s side quests, and this may or may not have been meant to set upSpider-Man: The Great Web’s dimension-hopping storyline.
There are plenty of people who want to playSpider-Man: The Great Webnow that they’ve gotten a better idea of what it would have been like, as evidenced by the massive amount of signatures Henry Hughes’s petition to bring the game back from the void of cancelation has already gathered. This might not necessarily lead toInsomniac restarting its workon its formerly plannedSpider-Manmultiplayer game, but it does make a strong case that fans like the idea of an online sandbox centered around Marvel’s most iconic superhero.
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