A trailer from the canceled multiplayer Spider-Man project has leaked online following December’s cyber attack that rocked Insomniac Games, with new info continuing to trickle out to this day. We now know this canned project would see players able to team up to duke it out with gang members terrorizing the Big Apple and face off against iconic foes, with Venom a focal point it seems.
If this trailer, which is making rounds on places like Streamable, are anything to go off of, it looks like players could also fight mainstay villains controlled by another player. While the game — dubbed Spider-Man: The Great Web — has since been canceled, it was described as “Spider-Man meets GTA Online.” It would come bundled in with a Battle Pass system and was poised to release in 2026.
Of course, this is just one of the few canned projects from Sony that were focused on multiplayer, with the most notorious being that of The Last of Us Online, which was coined as the studio’s “most ambitious” game of its history. There was also the recent layoffs that rocked the PlayStation ecosystem that led to London Studio, which before its closure was working on a PS5 exclusive multiplayer game set in a fantasy version of London. Oh and let’s not forget the closure of Deviation Games, spearheaded by ex-Call of Duty staff, it was working on a multiplayer game for the current-gen PlayStation.
This cancelation no doubt hurts the most if you’re a Webhead since fans have been calling on Insomniac to make a multiplayer Spider-Man for some time, with a lot of rumblings here and there. What’s more, this game actually looks rather engaging and could’ve been pretty good based on the gameplay, but it seems despite PlayStation’s goal of entering and staying in the multiplayer market, it simply refuses to release a multiplayer game that can stay online if it even makes it out the door before getting scraped.
Now, it’s worth pointing out this game would’ve no doubt ended up with servers only managed by the studio meaning one day it would be lost to time, but it would’ve been nice to at least see the game come to fruition before that day.
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