This week’supcoming State of Playhas been universally met with one question: where’sSpider-Man 2? Guys, it’s February. Spidey isn’t due out until winter. Calm down, everything will be here on time. For all Sony’s biggest fans love to talk but the breadth of its catalogue, both this year and last have been an exercise in how many eggs you may fit into a single basket. There’s nothing to read into Spider-Man skipping this one, so we should all stop wondering about it.
This State of Play will be on Suicide Squad (out in summer),PS VR2(out today), and a range of third-party titles (likely out between today and summer). There will be plenty more showcases from Sony throughout the year, even if it is skippingE3. We’ve always known Spider-Man 2 was Sony’s big Christmas game, so there’s no point worrying that we haven’t seen any gameplay by February.
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Sure, it would have been nice to see it in action by now, given we’ve only seen narrative cinematics and don’t know how the gameplay relationship between Peter and Miles will work. Will they have set missions, and then between each mission, we can swing around New York as that character until the next mission, a laAssassin’s Creed: Syndicate? Will we be able to change on the fly much likeGTA 5? Will they have entirely separate campaigns, or even separate parts of the city, that we can flick between on command? I have a lot of questions, and that’s before we even get into combat, narrative, Venom, Kraven, and the rest of it. But I don’t expect my answers to arrive nine months ahead of launch.
Insomniac has put out a slew of great games in a relatively short amount of time, and there’s no reason to panic with Spider-Man 2. For example, that we still haven’t seenSkull & Bonesafter repeated delays is a worry. That Sony wants to launch some other games before showing us Spider-Man 2 is not.
This has long been Sony’s strategy. It knows it can instantly oversaturate with adverts in the run up to the game, and has the size and prestige to have everyone thinking about its games all the time anyway - hence why everyone is jumping up and down for Spider-Man. This State of Play will be for games launching sooner, for games that need it more, and in a few months Spidey will have a longer showcase all of its own.
Honestly though, the more you talk about Spider-Man, the more ignorant you sound. There are a plethora of exciting games of all shapes and sizes due for release this year, and to be demanding your Christmas blockbuster now means you’re going to miss them all. I know Sony leading with another big superhero adventure in Suicide Squad doesn’t aid my cause here, but I’m expecting the third party titles to be the likes of Storyteller, Goodbye Volcano High, Afterimage, Stray Blade, and Wo Long. You shouldn’t miss out on all of these just because you’ve heard of Spider-Man and are prepared to ignore everything new until you see minor tweaks to the webswinging.
I have full faith that Spider-Man 2 will arrive right on time, and after the spring and summer launches, we’ll probably end up sick of hearing about it. Until then, look forward to all the smaller games getting oxygen. We’ll see Spider-Man 2 soon.
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