If you haven’t heard, one of the biggest hits of the year released recently in Spider-Man for PS4. The game got not only glowing reviews, but also, had monster sales in its first three days. Toppling 3.3 units sold in that time period, and no doubt has sold much more since then. One of the things that helped make the game so special was the fact that it did a great job using the source material to make a compelling main story. From the villains, to Peter’s allies, to Peter’s personal life, and so on.
For the team at Insomniac, they had no problem finding good reference material via the decades of comic from Marvel featuring the web-head. So in a video, they sat down with Marvel to talk about the books they were inspired by the most.
For creative director Bryan Intihar, he was in awe of the character since the first story he was in:
“He’s a rare character that’s been popular since his first short story in Amazing Fantasy #15, and he soon became Marvel’s most popular character — and he’s held that position for decades,”
Bill Roseman of Marvel Games noted the popularity of the character with the people:
“Spider-Man is a special character. People usually discover Spider-Man when they’re very young — and they grew up with Spider-Man.”
Intihar admitted that Insomniac dove into the history of the character long before they officially started work on the title:
“Inspiration-wise, before we started working on the game, we read everything we could,”
More than just tying into the legacy though, the teams as Marvel Games and Insomniac wanted to create their own legacy:
“We have to be the ones that, years from now, ‘Did you play Marvel’s Spider-Man? Oh, my God. That was the greatest Spider-Man game ever!’” said Rosemann. “That’s our goal. That’s what we have to swing for.”
The game is out now for PS4.
