The entirety of Marvel's Spider-Man is set in New York City's central borough, Manhattan. You won't be swinging across to Queens or even Liberty Island during your time in Insomniac's blockbuster adventure. This led some to believe that the game's DLC, The City that Never Sleeps, may venture further afield to let Spidey explore other areas of NYC. As it turns out, this isn't the case.
The developer confirmed as much to FANDOM when it sat down with community director James Stevenson. Here's what he had to say when asked if the web head might explore beyond Manhattan in the future:
"Those things you can see off the Manhattan Island – like the Statue of Liberty and the rafts moving about the harbour – are not fully built out. So they can’t be used in future DLC. They are there because it wouldn’t feel like New York without them. He can’t really get there anyway: there’s no buildings to attach your webs to [for swinging] and Spider-Man doesn’t like to swim very much.
“It was definitely something we thought about because we didn’t want a situation like Grand Theft Auto where it tells you the bridge is out as that is weird. It’s more that Spider-Man doesn’t want to ditch his responsibilities in Manhattan. So all the future content for the game, which has been announced, will be set within the Manhattan Island.”
So there we are: all the planned DLC for Marvel's Spider-Man is staying put. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as it seems like the island is pretty sizeable. What do you make of this news? Are you happy with this, or would you rather Spidey explored the wider New York City in his DLC adventures? Crawl down into the comments and let us know.
[source fandom.wikia.com]
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"He can’t really get there anyway: there’s no buildings to attach your webs to [for swinging] and Spider-Man doesn’t like to swim very much."
You what mate?!
Wait what? You can't go the Statue???? Literally unplayable, pre order cancelled.
Well yeah was to be expected, save the other boroughs for the sequel.
@RogerRoger this calls for one of your Spiderman themes surely?
Remember back on Spiderman 2?
The devs added a helicopter that flew to and from the statue so you could attach a web to it and hitch a ride.
Okay so there’s no skyscrapers in Queens but surely there is big enough buildings for him to attach his webs to? Some of us might of liked to explore that location. Spider-man is not known for swimming obviously but at least give us the choice to swim over to Liberty Island and climb the Statue.
So is the game going to be strictly limited to Manhattan even after every DLC has released?
@MaccaMUFC It's just Manhattan, yes.
@MaccaMUFC There not going to add a huge new area just for a handful of DLC missions, besides Insomniac quite rightly figured most people would just want to swing around Manhattan anyway.
@Gremio108 Only if you purchase the RogerRoger Goofball Sense of Humour Season Pass, which can be yours for a KFC three-piece variety meal or a good enough reason for why orange jam is called 'marmalade'.
@RogerRoger @LaNooch1978 I believe the word 'marmalade' was patented by Paddington Bear in 1983.
@LaNooch1978 @Gremio108 Um... I asked for a "good enough" reason, please.
Hang on, Spider-Man / Peter Parker lives in Queens, as we al know from the intro to Spider-Man where the caption says QUEENS (sic) as it zooms into a cluster of tenement blocks before switching to Peter waking down a corridor and later during the fight scene between Spider-Man and Captain America in Captain America: Civil War.
More precisely Forest Hills in Queens
Sad news. Cry me a puddle?
That was what I was expecting. As long as Manhattan is a good size with plenty to do and explore, I don't have any problems with this.
Personally I much prefer this, I'd rather have more to do in the existing areas rather than just making new area. The world looks easily big enough and things like this will make it feel more alive for longer, not to mention all the development time that can be saved and focused onto the important areas
@adf86 The Witcher 3 had a huge new area added with DLC for story and side quests. It’s irrelevant that it’s an RPG and that it has a fantasy setting, both are open world games.
@MaccaMUFC You did swing around with Geralt in the game did you. 😜
@Flaming_Kaiser Of course, you wouldn’t get very far in the game without swinging his swords every now and then 😜
Witcher 3 is a completely different genre, that's like comparing Bioshock to Call of Duty. Besides CDPR made the expansion in the knowledge that they won't be doing a new one in a long time. Whereas Insomniac are potentially one title into a new franchise so it would make no sense to waste ideas that will probably be better served for a sequel. They also have to serve a gameplay purpose too, there's no point in adding liberty island and Queens to the game if they just end up effecting the way the games plays and flows.
All resources went into showing puzzles in the original trailer. They didn’t have time to add the rest of the city.
Hmmmm. Worried that this isn’t very significant.
Wait and see with this
@Deadlyblack They'll probably include that feature in the second Spider-Man game.
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