Sony, after all, published the Marvel’s Spider-Man games, which are also exclusive to PlayStation consoles.īut don’t expect Square Enix’s Spidey to have many similarities with PlayStation and Insomniac’s version of the character. “Because of the relationship Sony and PlayStation have with Marvel, there was a unique opportunity for PlayStation fans to be able to have that hero brought to them,” Crystal Dynamics head Scot Amos told us of the decision to make Spidey exclusive to Sony’s consoles. If you have the game on any other platform but want to play as the web-slinger, you’re simply out of luck.
As revealed ahead of the game’s release last year, Spider-Man will only be playable on the PS4 and PS5 versions of Marvel’s Avengers as part of an exclusivity deal between Square Enix and Sony. Does that sound exciting? Well it should…if you have a PlayStation copy of the game. Yes, it does sound like Marvel’s Avengers is telling its own version of Spidey’s first adventure with the Avengers. Will he join up full-time with the Avengers, or stay independent in his fight against AIM?”
As a Hero accustomed to working solo, he struggles with the new dynamics of working with a team. Marvel and Black Widow while keeping his identity hidden. “He must partner with the Avengers to stop this looming threat, and forms a tentative friendship with Ms. “Peter Parker uncovers AIM’s new plan to acquire technology that could make their Synthoid army unstoppable and total domination inevitable,” reads of a synopsis of the game’s Spidey DLC. The game’s “With Great Power” hero event will see the wallcrawler join the rest of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes in the fight against evil criminal organization AIM and their army of robots and mechs. Over a year after Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics first announced that Spider-Man would release as a DLC character for Marvel’s Avengers, it’s finally happening in November.