Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Announcement (PS5)

Spider-Man: Miles Morales

 

    Sony last week confirmed that  Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales a standalone game, following confusion among fans after the title was announced last week at the company's PS 5 games event. Developer Insomniac on Thursday gave us a sense of its length.

"You'll experience a full story arc with Miles, one that's more akin to a game like Uncharted: The Lost Legacy in terms of overall scope," Brian Horton, the game's creative director, wrote in a blog post. The Uncharted spin off's story took about seven to 10 hours to beat, while the 2018 Spider-Man took about 20 hours

On the technical side, Horton confirmed that it'll include the new console's near-instant loading, ray-tracing, 3D audio, as well as making use of its DualSense controller. 

    

         

They also noted that Peter Parker's story isn't done, so we can expect to see him return to a starring role in a  future game.

It's set about a year after the first game, in the midst of the holiday season, and Miles is living in Harlem. That suggests the game's map will only include Manhattan (like the original), but Horton suggested that it'll be spruced up for the new console.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 While Sony’s announcement didn’t show off too much of the gameplay for Spider-Man: Miles Morales, the teaser trailer does show off new abilities, like Miles’ electric venom blasts and stealth camouflaging, along with new features, like changing weather and daylight cycles, that didn’t appear in the original game.

The original Spider-Man on PS4 has been used by Sony in repeated demos to showcase the improvements in load times and level design that are possible with the new, faster SSD on the PlayStation 5. So it’ll be extremely interesting to see what’s possible with a game that was designed from the ground up with those sorts of speeds in mind.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales will launch on the PlayStation 5 holiday 2020