So Insomniac planted the seed at the end of the first game, with Harry Osborne covered in the Venom Symbiote. “I was surprised people didn’t get as mad as I thought they would, that it wasn’t in the first game,” Intihar laughs.
The team believed the Symbiote suit needed its own game and Insomniac made the conscious decision to not include the suit in the first Spider-Man at all, and instead hold onto the concept for the sequel where it could get the spotlight to itself. And of course, as you’d probably imagine, the black suit - the Symbiote suit - came up and we kind of decided, are we gonna just give it as a visual thing, or are we actually gonna go bigger with it?” “When we were deep in production of Spider-Man 1, we talked about what suits we were gonna feature. According to Intihar, at the time of Spider-Man 1 development, the team was debating whether to include the suit or not.
If you played Insomniac’s first Spider-Man game, you might have wondered why the Symbiote suit wasn’t one of the unlockable costumes in that game.
