THE BACKGROUND
Considering it had focussed on original games for over two decades, Spider-Man must have felt like a huge departure for Insomniac Games. Famed for titles like Disruptor, Spyro The Dragon and the wildly popular Ratchet & Clank series, Insomniac was finishing up on its Xbox One exclusive Sunset Overdrive when work on Spider-Man began in earnest.
Spawned from the same engine that had given birth to both on PS4 and , the Xbox One exclusive could almost be seen as a dry run for Insomniac’s later game, with effortlessly improving
