Insomniac Games showed off Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales‘ new suit based on Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. As you’d expect, it comes with its own animation style, as well as comic book sound-effect bubbles.
A new 11-minute video shows the suit in action, and it looks like it’s plucked directly from the film. While wearing the suit, Miles’ movements mirror those seen in the film. The animation is executed at a lower frame rate than the game to simulate the animated film’s style.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse production designer Justin K. Thompson explains that the suit mimics the film’s method of “animating on twos.” That’s a technique where every frame of an animation is actually used twice, cutting down on the number of drawings needed per second. For instance, if it’s running at 24 frames per second animation, only 12 unique drawings are used.
The suit also adds comic book style pop-ups when the player hits an enemy. The video shows Miles punching a group of enemies as sound-effect words like pow and thwack appear on-screen in word bubbles.
The suit is available as a bonus for anyone who pre-orders the game on PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 5. Insomniac says that the suit will eventually be available to everyone at a later date. Players who pre-order will also receive the T.R.A.C.K. suit, created by Marvel artist Javier Garrón.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales will give fans plenty of choices when it comes to Spidey suits. Insomniac recently showed off a new costume that gives players an adorable bodega cat, which can also attack enemies, as a companion. The game launches alongside the PlayStation 5 on November 12.
