We're just two days away from the PlayStation Showcase and one of the titles widely expected to receive a release date is Spider-Man 2. We know that both Peter Parker and Miles Morales from the most recent Spider-Man titles will be playable, but now we're finding out they might be playable at the same time by two different people.
Speaking at SacAnime last summer (and spotted on Reddit), Miles voice actor Nadji Jeter answered a fan who asked if Spider-Man 2 was co-op. "I don't know if it's been announced or not," he said, "but I think so."
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So far, Insomniac has said that Spider-Man 2 will be single-player only, but there's been leaked code that suggests it could be co-op or even have a multiplayer game mode. References to "co-op" were leaked alongside markers for "Player 1," "Player 2," "Red Team," "Blue Team," "Character 1," and "Character 2," suggesting some sort of team-based competition.
It's possible that this was all leftover code from an earlier iteration of Spider-Man 2 and won't be found in the final product. It's also possible that this is what Jeter was thinking of when he said that co-op had already been revealed for Spider-Man 2. Neither Sony nor Insomniac has acknowledged the leak or mentioned anything about co-op.
Elsewhere in the Q&A session, a fan asked if Miles will wear the Venom symbol at any point in Spider-Man 2, suggesting that he might merge with the alien symbiote. Jeter replied, "They're everywhere. They gonna be everywhere."
This had one Redditor suggesting that Spider-Man 2 might harken back to a plot point in 2008's Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, which "did 'symbiotes everywhere' very well and it would
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