With the PS5 reveal event rumored to be taking place in February, rumors about PlayStation's future are everywhere. Sometimes these rumors focus on specific games, like one rumor that's been making the rounds online about Spider-Man 2, which is presumably in development at Insomniac Games.
The rumor originates from a Reddit post by user v17447377. They don't provide any evidence to back up their claims about the supposed Spider-Man 2, but cite a source at Insomniac Games. Needless to say, fans should take the information with a massive grain of salt. However, there have been enough legitimate leaks from forums like Reddit and 4chan that there's always a chance something like this could be true.
The leak claims that Spider-Man 2 will launch in the holiday 2021 season, but will be revealed at some point this year. The game will once again feature an open world Manhattan, but will also include Queens and Brooklyn. As far as story details, Spider-Man 2 will apparently feature Peter Parker training Miles Morales, supporting cast members like Flash Thompson and Harry Osborn, an OsCorp "cloning" story, and of course, plenty of villains.
According to the post, the new villains in Spider-Man 2 include Cardiac, Carnage, Green Goblin, the Lizard, Mysterio, and Venom. How exactly these villains will all play into the story remains to be seen, but considering how well the 2018 Spider-Man PS4 game balanced its large rogues gallery, we have to imagine that the developers at Insomniac will pull it off again in the rumored Spider-Man 2.
As far as new gameplay mechanics go, the post claims that there will be Diablo-style mechanics in the form of randomized crimes and encounters. Different aspects of these crimes will also be randomized, such as enemy placement, the type of encounter, etc.
Before fans buy into this supposed Spider-Man 2 leak too much, though, they should keep their expectations in check. Rumors about the PS5 and potential PS5 games like Spider-Man 2 have been all over the Internet lately, especially as evidence mounts that Sony is planning a PS5 reveal event in February. Maybe the Spider-Man 2 reveal will happen at that event, but whatever the case may be, fans shouldn't trust any information on the PS5 or Spider-Man 2 unless it comes from Sony itself.
Spider-Man 2 is rumored to be in development for PS5.