By Logan Mullarkey – Staff Reporter

“Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” was released on October 20 for the PlayStation 5, and broke records by selling 2.5 million copies in 24 hours, becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation game in history. It is currently the third best-selling game on the PlayStation 5.

“Marvel’s Spider-Man 2” takes place 10 months after the previous game, “Spider-Man: Miles Morales.” The game starts off with Peter Parker and introduces the basics of the game while fighting one of Spider-Man’s villains, Sandman. Throughout the story, there are a variety of characters that can be chosen such as Peter Parker, Miles Morales (Spider-Man), Mary Jane Watson, and even one of the main antagonists Venom. Within the story, there are other missions and side quests to stop crimes around New York. 

At the beginning of the story, Harry Osborn is introduced who is a returning friend who went away with an undiagnosed sickness to heal. He comes into the story as a surprise, showing up at Peter’s aunt’s house. Later in the story, it turns out that a symbiote (alien) named Venom was healing him while being attached to him. But while Venom was attached it was giving Harry inhuman strength and powers which he uses to help Peter fight crime shortly after. 

Around the middle of the story a main antagonist is introduced, Kraven The Hunter. Kraven’s goal is to find a worthy opponent to duel with to end his life, so he hunts all of Spider-Man’s villains for an opponent. While Spider-Man was dealing with Kraven, he ended up getting very badly damaged and could die if not healed. To save his life, Harry gives him the symbiote to heal him, which works. Now that Peter has the symbiote he feels stronger and better. But he doesn’t know that it is slowly corrupting him, turning him away from his friends, and even almost killing Miles. But Kraven finally finds his worthy opponent which is Harry when he has the symbiote. He gets Peter to rip it off, and it crawls right back into Harry, which Kraven wanted, and he ends up dying because of it.

There are many positives to “Marvel’s Spider-Man 2,” which is why it’s the fastest-selling game in Playstation history. It has a fantastic storyline and plot. Many fans love how it’s able to change the suits that Spider-Man wears within the game, both Peter and Miles. Fans also thought it was amazing how they switched between Peter and Miles for certain missions for both characters. There is also lots of character development noticed from both protagonists and sometimes antagonists as well. The game broke video game history and left fans very happy.

Although there are many great aspects of the game, there is one weak point that fans pointed out. Some fans were upset that they changed the antagonists a bit. It ended up working it out, but many fans agree that the original was better with a news reporter named Eddie Brock being Venom instead of Harry. Harry was supposed to be a Green Goblin who is one of Spider-Man’s main rivals. 

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars