Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 Revolves Around Kraven The Plot Device
Insomniac Games was on hand to talk about Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. Among other things, they talked about the big setting of the game, and why it really revolves around Kraven.
In Insomniac’s version of the Spider-Man universe, Kraven gets a grim real life update, as instead of a lone wolf survivalist type, this Kraven seems to be a millionaire high tech private army type. It isn’t hard to see Wagner Group or SilverCorp USA as potential inspiration for this version of Kraven, though we doubt Insomniac will ever admit that.
They describe Kraven as the ‘catalyst’ of the events of the game, which isn’t that far off from the last game, Spider-Man: Miles Morales.
Kraven has been going around the world looking for things to hunt during the events of the previous games, but he has been aware of all the action happening in New York this whole time.
By the time of the game, he decides he will finally be going to New York to check out the action there.
Insomniac doesn’t go into more detail here, but they then point out that Kraven’s presence also gets the other super-villains to surface, namely, Lizard and Venom.
This game’s version of Lizard doesn’t make his human alter ego, Curt Connors, a teacher of Peter Parker’s. Technically, he also appeared in the first Marvel’s Spider-Man, but only as a side note.
This Curt had been partially cured by Peter, as he didn’t want to turn into the Lizard. It’s possible that Kraven’s meddling in New York was intended to bring out the baddies that he could hunt, and that’s what he intended to do with Curt.
Venom isn’t Venom throughout the whole game game, as we know. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 will reexamine the Alien Costume Saga, one of those classic storylines that
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