Highlights

  • Insomniac's canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game, "The Great Web," featured multiple Spider-heroes battling villains across the multiverse.
  • The leaked concept trailer shows off playable Spider-Gwen and Peter's black Symbiote costume, hinting at a deeper exploration of the Marvel universe.
  • Although the game was scrapped, hints of a possible online multiplayer mode for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 may revisit some ideas from The Great Web.

A concept trailer for Insomniac’s canceled Spider-Man multiplayer game has just leaked online, giving fans a glimpse into what the ambitious project could have been like. Insomniac’s series of open-world Spider-Man games have earned critical acclaim from fans of Marvel’s legendary web slinger, starting with the successful Marvel’s Spider-Man back in 2018. A spin-off was released in 2020 in Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which saw the titular teenage hero come into his own as a crime-fighter. Both he and Peter Parker returned as playable characters in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 last year, facing off against deadly villains like Venom and Kraven the Hunter while struggling with their own personal demons.

Not too long after the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Insomniac fell victim to a massive data breach that exposed some of the developer’s plans for its growing Marvel gaming universe. In addition to games featuring Venom, Wolverine, and the X-Men, this leak included a multiplayer Spider-Man game that was supposedly in the works at Insomniac over the past couple of years. Tentatively titled Spider-Man: The Great Web, this open-world title would feature multiple Spider-heroes from across the Marvel multiverse fighting crime and battling supervillains in New York City. Sadly, this game was reportedly canceled by Insomniac a long time before the leak brought it to light.

A brown-tinted screenshot of Peter Parker's Symbiote suit in Marvel's Spider-Man 2.
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Now fans can see for themselves what Spider-Man: The Great Web could have been like, as a concept trailer was recently leaked online and shared by people like Reddit user okangel12345 on r/insomniacleaks. Narrated by Peter Parker voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, this brief trailer for the canceled Spider-Man game shows various Spider-heroes emerging from portals and battling villains like Doc Ock and Venom across different sections of the multiverse. Most of the characters shown appear to be made with pre-existing assets from the previous Spider-Man games, save for a playable Spider-Gwen that seems to have been made from scratch.

Insomniac’s Canceled Spider-Man Game Would Have Explored The Multiverse

It still isn’t clear if Spider-Man: The Great Web was meant to be released before or after Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, though the presence of Venom and Peter’s black Symbiote costume seems to suggest the latter. The same Insomniac data breach that revealed The Great Web also mentioned a supposed online multiplayer mode for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 that could launch sometime this year, hinting that Insomniac might revisit some of the ideas shown in this recently leaked trailer even if The Great Web itself was scrapped.

All of the information included in December’s massive Insomniac data breach is subject to change and should be taken with a grain of salt, but this recently leaked concept trailer for Spider-Man: The Great Web seems to all but confirm that Insomniac was indeed working on the multiplayer superhero title before eventually canceling it. Judging from the trailer itself, Insomniac’s Spider-Man multiplayer game looked like an intriguing idea, but there’s no true way of knowing how it would have fared with players had it been released.