Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is about to glide into our lives tomorrow, 20th October 2023. While it does have the odd bug or two (meaning technical issues, not the protagonists), a day one patch should tidy things up — but it's largely a very complete and polished game out of the box. Insomniac Games isn't finished with the sequel just yet, however, as it plans to follow up the launch with some nice post-launch updates.
Responding to a fan on X, community and marketing director James Stevenson said Insomniac is currently "working on an update" to bring New Game+ mode and a mission replay feature to the game. Another user asked roughly when this might arrive, and Stevenson replied it should be "before end of year".
New Game+ is a mode that unlocks after completing the main story, and lets you begin again while carrying over some of your progress. In Spider-Man's case, we imagine your overall level and any gadgets, skills, and abilities you've unlocked/upgraded will move to a New Game+. The mode typically also increases the level of challenge, with stronger enemies or sometimes even different combat encounters.
Mission replay is fairly self-explanatory — it'll give you the option to play previously completed missions again, if you want. If there's a boss fight you really like or want to refresh yourself on a particular chapter, you'll be able to do that once it's added.
Both of these will be welcome additions, and it sounds like they're not too far off if they're coming before the end of 2023. Would you like to see New Game+ and mission replay in Marvel's Spider-Man 2? Swing by the comments section below.
[source x.com, via videogameschronicle.com]
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Sony sure loves adding their NG+ modes to their games after launch. Curious if that's by design. Always adds a couple more trophies (for beating on NG+ and probably for beating on the hardest diff). Probably adds a little more tail to a single player game than if was just there at launch.
@Jayslow I imagine part of the reason it's added later is for player engagement. Sony's probably got data that shows a worthwhile number of players returning to games like God of War and Ghost of Tsushima for updates like New Game+. Positive metrics like that likely influence the decision, something to write about in reports!
sorry but i feel stuff like this should be in the game day 1
@Jayslow It bugs me quite a bit honestly because the game doesn't feel as complete as it otherwise would. However, the reality is we're moving towards a heavily if not all digital future so it's largely redundant. The only thing holding back all digital being more readily embraced is generational storefronts. If that gets addressed, as Nintendo is rumoured to be doing, I'd have less reservations.
@ShogunRok that's the corporate buzzword I was trying to think of! But I just left it as tail. But exactly what I was thinking. Keeps the game in the zeitgeist for a little longer. More articles written about it post launch etc.
@Jayslow Yeah, that's exactly it. Companies like Sony pour god-knows how much money into researching stuff like 'player engagement' — this kind of thing definitely doesn't happen by accident.
Typically new game+ adds 2 or 3 more trophies on PS 1st party games. Would be better if they could add 5 or 6 more trophies unique to new game+ instead of 2
@Beerheadgamer82 I can imagine at least 4 NG+-related trophies could get added later: finish the game in NG+, finish the game in NG+ on the hardest difficulty are the two safe ones to guess.
Spider-Man Remastered on PS5 added the Remastered Trophies DLC list which Insomniac can get inspired by: Achieve the highest rating in a challenge (I assume Spider-Man 2 will have open-world challenges again) and maybe achieve of certain combo multiplier?
All speculation on my part, obviously, but I wouldn't be surprised if we got more than the obligatory 2 NG+ trophies this time.
@trev666 Me too, and this is a reason I wait a few months. Look at Horizon, adding patches modes, it just doesn't pay to play day 1 anymore.
People really here saying they want NG+ day one. U can just replay the campaign day one lmao.
@CrackmanNL exactly, it makes zero sense to add NG+ on day one.
@ShogunRok Most annoying ***** ever but it makes sense for them to do that because how are devs like Fromsoft and Capcom able to always release a game with NG+ but a big game company like Insomniac can't?
If only it wasn't £70. I don't think it's worth it. 57 for baldurs gate 3 was worth it. But 70 for ratchets and clank which was over in a lord of the rings movie .. wasn't.
And this is supposedly shorter than the previous spiderman... nahhh ... feels like overhyped money grubbing
@trev666 Yeah because you're sure to make use of NG+ on Day 1 🙄
@propinquity R&C was not a 3-4 game and SM2 takes around 30 hours to Platinum.
@trev666 if it's there day one then sadly it would be a requirement for the platinum and Sony has been making it easier for all people with any skill level to achieve it.
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