Marvel's Avengers Dev on Spider-Man: He's Like a Cherry on Top with His Own Self-Contained Story Arc

The news that Spider-Man would be added to Marvel's Avengers roster of playable heroes simply on PlayStation platforms fabricated quite the splash last week, even leading us to record a podcast episode near entirely dedicated to the topic.

When we got the take chances to interview Creative Director Shaun Escayg and Combat Director Vince Napoli, we couldn't avoid posing some questions to the developers. Immediately, they made it clear that the rules of the human relationship between Marvel and Sony meant the Spider-Man exclusivity was completely out of the hands of Crystal Dynamics (and probably Square Enix as well, for that matter).

Eventually, the developers added that we should think of Spider-Man every bit a sort of 'cherry on top' who'll have his own cocky-contained story arc in the overall narrative.

Wccftech: Many of those angry fans accept as well pointed out that you won't be able to meaningfully include Spider-Homo in the ongoing story since he cannot appear at all on PC, Xbox, or Stadia. Can y'all annotate on that?

Shaun Escayg:Without obviously giving any spoilers, the window where you will run across our version of Spider-Man will fit into our story. Once more, I have to obviously trip the light fantastic around information technology because I can't speak to it. But just know that this is our Spider-Man, he will be in our story and will fit in that globe, sort of in that gap what happened A-Day and between then and now, even the villains that support that volition kind of speak to how he belongs in this earth and how long he lives in this world.

Vince Napoli:Spider-Man is in addition to the arc and progression of the primary story every bit well. There was no swapping or anything else in that line. We've got our plan, nosotros've got our heroes that are coming out and the stories and the challenges and the gameplay escalation that we've planned out. That'due south all continuing as planned. Then just on tiptop of all that stuff, nosotros've also got Spider-Man now and yous know, he'south weaving into that, that is the central. There is no swapping or irresolute anything to kind of accommodate that. He's got to fit within the massive plan and all of that stuff we've already got. It'south similar, Sony went 'Hey, can you add together this on top of it, equally a sort of a cherry on meridian of that?' But he doesn't touch on or alter that in whatsoever fashion. That plan is still moving forwards as originally planned and conceived with all the original expansion stuff in listen.

Wccftech: Is information technology fair to say that it will be kind of a self-contained story arc for him in Marvel'southward Avengers?

Shaun Escayg:Absolutely, yeah.

This makes sense, as the friendly neighborhood 'Cherry Spider' was never quite a key member of the Avengers even in the comics as well as the hugely pop Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Spider-Man is expected to launch early next year as a gratuitous DLC in Marvel's Avengers on both PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. Of course, in that location's also the new standalone game Spider-Homo: Miles Morales, due on the PlayStation 5 as a launch title.