Fans of the Spider-Man video video games from Insomniac already have a little bit of a historical past of being bizarre about unimportant, minute particulars within the video games. This tendancy virtually reared its ugly head once more this week after a brand new Spider-Man 2 trailer debuted at Comic-Con, as followers have been satisfied that Insomniac had accomplished one thing drastic to vary Mary Jane’s face from the unique recreation.
No, they did not. It’s the identical face, identical mannequin, identical actress. Everyone relax!
The challenge was addressed on Twitter as we speak by Insomniac director, group and advertising, James Stevenson, who confirmed to a number of folks that MJ stays unchanged. Her haircut is totally different within the sequel, and it is fully doable that improved face scanning tech has made her mannequin extra correct, nevertheless it’s the identical face.
The excellent news is, everybody appears to be taking the correction in stride. A thread on the SpidermanPS4 subreddit has group members largely responding positively to the information, with one particularly energetic reply thread jovially mocking the group by suggesting “People do not realize they might completely fall for Clark Kent’s ‘disguse.'” They’re not fallacious!
Whatever you consider everybody’s faces, the brand new Spider-Man 2 trailer that appeared at Comic-Con yesterday was fairly darn cool. We obtained a nearer have a look at Venom, in all probability know who his host is that this time, noticed a really area of interest villain reference, discovered what J. Jonah Jameson is as much as, and obtained a primary have a look at this beautiful new Spider-Man 2-themed PS5 and DualSense controller.
For extra from Comic-Con, Spider-Man and never Spider-Man, take a look at our roundup of all the pieces introduced up to now.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. You can discover her on Twitter @duckvalentine.
