Leaked trailers for Spider-Man: The Great Web surface
Over the past 48 hours, more information, including two trailers, has surfaced regarding Insomniac’s canceled title, Spider-Man: The Great Web. The trailers and information are the result of a hack by ransomware group, Rhysida, perpetrated in December 2023.
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Rhysida gave Insomniac Games seven days before they would make the data public while also posting an auction with a starting bid of 50 bitcoin ($3.6M). The hack contained not only information regarding Spider-Man: The Great Web and the upcoming Wolverine game, but a litany of employee information, up to 1.6TB in total.
Ultimately, Rhysida released the information. Now, the Internet is poring over the data and has uncovered the following two trailers for Spider-Man: The Great Web.
The Cinematic Trailer
The Gameplay Trailer
The premise for the multiplayer title is that the Scarlet Witch mucked about with the multiverse, which had some serious repercussions with the Great Web. This was hinted at during Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 if players collected all of the spider-bots.
If Yuri Lowenthal’s narration is to be believed, various realities and Spider-folk across dimensions are falling. With an unusually organized Sinister Six going on the offensive, it falls to the remaining Spider-folk to mount a resistance and restore balance.
The trailer shows off Miles Morales, Miguel O’Hara, Ben Reilly, Peter Parker, and Gwen Stacy working together to take down various baddies. The second trailer also shows off an illustrated Cindy Moon, so the teaser at the end of Spider-Man 2 is also coming back into play.
The concept is great and makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, live-service superhero games haven’t exactly been well-received in the past. Marvel’s Avengers, Gotham Knights, and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League have all been flops.
With so many publishers pushing for live-service games and players being torn between the lot of them, I believe the market is starting to feel the strain. This may have been why Spider-Man: The Great Web was ultimately canceled, but without confirmation from Insomniac Games, we might never know for certain.
