Marvel's Spider-Man 2 draws parallels between skateboarding and web-slinging, highlighting the transformative power of both activities. Just as skateboarding allows players to see the world in a new way, Spider-Man's web-slinging turns the city into a playground. The addition of Web-Wings in the game mirrors the game-changing mechanic of the revert in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, enabling seamless transitions between vertical and horizontal movement.
Spider-Man games are skateboarding games, at least in spirit. As you make your way through the concrete jungle of New York, moving from mission to mission, you're forced to recontextualize the mundane. A flagpole becomes a shining launch point, a skyscraper flips onto its side to become a flat surface used to reach up higher and higher. In many ways, skateboarding also encourages this new way of seeing the world around you.
While in real life, the revert is a fairly inconsequential trick used to go from backward-facing movement to forward-facing, its introduction into Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 marked a huge leap forward in the ways in which players could traverse the game's many courses. For the first time, it was possible to link vertical tricks seamlessly into horizontal movement.
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 adds the Web-Wings to the ever-growing repertoires of Miles Morales and Peter Parker, and the change is similarly revolutionary. While the traversal shown off in the previous Insomniac Spider-Man games seemed perfect at the time , using the Web-Wings in the sequel instantly makes them both feel like a first draft.
If you've followed Insomniac as a studio for the last decade or so, you will know that there is a sort of midpoint that bridges Marvel's Spider-Man and the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. 2014's Sunset Overdrive was, in many ways, a testing ground for the traversal later developed for Spider-Man.
Sunset Overdrive might just be the missing link between Marvel's Spider-Man and classic skating games. |Whether Insomniac considers skating games to be a direct influence on the modern Marvel's Spider-Man series remains to be seen, but there's a clear throughline that runs from the humble marriage of sports and action that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater put forward, to the ways in which the Spider-Men move through the skies of New York in the latest game.
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