Insomniac Almost Gave 'Spider-Man 2' Fans A Venomized Version Of Sandman
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If you don't already own a Playstation 5, the new Spider-Man 2 video game, released on October 20, would be a very good "excuse" to get one. The game got nearly unanimous praise both from critics and gamers as well. The game has Peter Parker team up with Miles Morales to fight against Kraven the Hunter and the extraterrestrial symbiont Venom.
But at the start of the game, the two Spidermen have to fight Flint Marko aka Sandman, across New York City, and Bryan Intihar, senior creative director of Insomniac, now revealed that the development studio had at some time tossed around the idea for a venomized Sandman.
"There was a discussion to a point where it's a concept image of Venomized Sandman. Super cool idea.”
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Sadly, this idea never became part of the finished game. And this is not for Marvel flexing their muscles and putting a stop to the idea, no the reason is much more profane:
"I think it comes down to more of like, can we do it with the time we have and at the quality we want to hit?," Intihar continues while immediately answering this question: "We were never going to get it done at the quality we wanted to, and it was going to be… it was enough of a challenge to make regular Sandman cool. “And I'm like, ‘okay, now we're going to do it as a Venomized version?’ This team went above and beyond anything I could have ever expected when we first started this. So I was like, ‘we're not going to do it.’ So it's more about that.”
While time and budget didn't allow Insomniac to create a Sandman-Venom hybrid for Spider-Man 2, Intihar also doesn't smash the door on this subject for a Spider-Man 3 (which is all but a sure thing to come out in a few years):
"Maybe one day… I'm probably getting in trouble for saying it, but whatever. It's a really cool image. It's really cool.”
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Source: IGN
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