“Spider-Man: Miles Morales” Boasts A ‘Full Arc’

By
Garth Franklin
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The most anticipated early title of PlayStation 5 is “Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales,” a short spin-off game that serves as follow-up of sorts to Insomniac Games’ celebrated 2018 title “Marvel’s Spider-Man” for PS4.

Bryan Intihar, creative director at Insomniac Games, has offered some further details about the title including an explanation about the most debated aspects of the game – namely its length and classification, as in is it a full game, DLC or something more.

Speaking with EW, Intihar confirms the title is very much its own game, but a smaller spin-off like “Uncharted: Lost Legacy” and “Wolfenstein: The Old Blood”. Even with the smaller story, he says the game very much offers a full arc for Miles Morales:

“We really are completing this hero’s coming of age in our game. It is a complete story. When we started crafting it we realized that, with a little bit more of a compact storytelling style, we could tell a very emotionally impactful story that would fit really well as an experience that would take Spider-Man 1 and [Miles Morales] and do justice to this character.”

Intihar also says that every facet of the game is specifically character-driven toward Miles Morales and adding that his arc, in comparison to Peter Parker’s, is “more so born out of family. What I think is really compelling about Miles as a character is he has friends that he could actually let into his world – his human world and his Spider world. He’s a little different in the way he approaches it.”

The character was briefly playable in the 2018 game for some scenes, but he wasn’t bitten by a radioactive spider until the game’s end. The new game takes place one year later as Miles must deal with the warring factions between a crime syndicate using advanced technology and a major energy corporation.

“Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales” will hit shelves sometime in Holiday 2020.