Spider-Man 2 Game Director Talks About Creating “The Most Relatable Superheroes” In Latest Interview

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With Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 just a week away from launch, fans are naturally excited to see what’s in store for the sequel. In a recent interview with Marvel, Insomniac creative director and game director on Spider-Man 2 Bryan Intihar talked about the many challenges that the two Spideys will be facing in their personal lives.

Intihar talked at length about these challenges, which range from Miles struggling to write the perfect application for getting into college and Peter struggling with the death of Aunt May and trying to balance a teaching gig with his full-time superhero work. Intihar says that it is these problems that make Spider-Man one of the most relatable superheroes of all time, and that players will be able to see shades of themselves through the personal struggles of the two superheroes.

“We all talked about: why do we love Spider-Man? I think the thing that we said right from the bat was: he’s probably the most relatable Super Hero out there. He’s not a soldier, like Captain America. He isn’t a god, like Thor. He isn’t a billionaire, like Tony Stark. He’s a kid from Queens and Miles is a kid from Brooklyn. They have good days and bad days and strengths and weaknesses and real problems that we can all identify with and have struggles that we’ve all had in our lives.”

“I think that we try to inject that into every story that we do. So, for example, probably most people in their lives can identify with when I have to apply for college. That’s what Miles is going [through], like, ‘Okay, I’ve got to write this essay, this college essay,’ and he’s struggling with it. Peter, he’s trying to figure out, ‘Okay, I’m going to start this new teaching gig, and I’m trying to figure out living out and I’m taking over Aunt