There’s a lot to be said of shorter games that respect your time, and Insomniac’s Spider-Man series has been a shining …
The two Marvel’s Spider-Man games that have been released to date (2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and 2020’s Miles Morales) have been great examples of what you can do with a shorter open world game. The more focused scope of the games results in Insomniac being able to pump more love into the setpieces that did make the cut. It means that a pacier, more engaging storyline can take center-stage. It means that there’s not a surplus of open world bloat dragging the whole experience down.
Insomniac has apparently kept that philosophy in mind as it’s been building the second numbered game in the series. “Spider-Man 2 is in the same ball-park as the first game in terms of overall play time,” explains Ryan Smith, senior game director at Insomniac Games, in a full interview with VG247. “And we really thought about how to make each of the moments a little more epic, or a little deeper, or a little more story-integrated.
