Highlights

  • Concept art for canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game leaked online, revealing character creation and an exciting multi-universe premise.
  • Spider-Man: The Great Web would have allowed players to create custom spider-themed heroes and fight alongside legendary crime fighters.
  • Leaked concept art shows custom Spider-heroes in action, battling Symbiote-infected Sandman and other enemies in open-world New York City.

Concept art for Insomniac’s canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game has just been leaked online, including a possible look at the title’s character creation screen. Insomniac infamously fell victim to a massive ransomware attack just a few months after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swung onto the PlayStation 5, exposing much of the developer’s plans for future Marvel video games. Among already confirmed titles like Marvel’s Wolverine and long-suspected projects centered around Venom and the X-Men was a game that Insomniac had reportedly already canceled long before the data breach: an online multiplayer title called Spider-Man: The Great Web.

Spider-Man: The Great Web would have featured a premise similar to the recent Spider-Man animated films, with Spider-heroes from all across the multiverse coming together to battle the Sinister Six in the open world of New York City. Earlier this month, a concept trailer for Spider-Man: The Great Web was leaked online, giving curious players a better look at what the game could have been like had it not been shelved. In addition to the expected Peter Parker and Miles Morales, The Great Web would have included the Scarlet Witch in a major role, alongside already popular Spider-heroes that aren’t yet playable in an Insomniac game like Silk and Spider-Gwen.

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Players would have been able to create their own spider-themed hero and join forces with these legendary crime fighters in Spider-Man: The Great Web, as revealed by a collection of leaked concept art shared by Reddit user danoka29 on r/insomniacleaks. One of these images features what looks like a character customization screen that lets players alter the face, hair, body type, Spider-emblem, and voice of their avatar before selecting a moveset inspired by existing Spider-Man characters like Peter, Miles, or Gwen.

Other images in the leaked collection of Spider-Man: The Great Web concept art depict some of these custom Spider-heroes in action, complete with different spider-themed costumes inspired by classic looks from the comics and games. Prototype versions of Miles and Gwen can also be seen, and some of the artwork shows an alternate Miles with a backstory more in line with Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Armies of Spider-heroes can also be seen battling a Symbiote-infected Sandman and other enemies from the previous Spider-Man titles, and there is even a glimpse of what appears to be Madame Web at the core of the multiverse.

The recent leaks have drummed up interest in Spider-Man: The Great Web, with fans even starting petitions to convince Insomniac to resume work on the ambitious project. These might not lead to anything, but The Great Web seems to have had some intriguing ideas if these newly-revealed concept images are to go by. One of these was having players craft their web-slinging superhero and fight crime in the same open-world sandbox from Insomniac's past Spider-Man games, and this could have been a dream come true for fans had The Great Web been completed.