Last night at the E3 gaming exposition , Sony and Insomniac Games pass on usanother astonishing look atthe PS4 Spider - Man game dropping this September , introducing us to a few of Peter Parker ’s worst enemies … six of them , in fact . In the comics , six is a rather ill-omened routine for Spidey , because it ’s the size of one of his most infamous villain team , the aptly cite Sinister Six .
The latest demonstration for Spider - Man saw the webslinger and his cop pal Yuri Watanabe deal with a prisonbreak on the Raft , the Prime Minister swim prison for superintendent - con in the Marvel Comics universe .
As Spidey swings and punches his means through the breakout , one by one he meet some of his most notorious foes who ’ve escaped in the chaos — Electro , Rhino , Scorpion , and the predator — only to get word that they ( alongside thepreviously break Martin Li , a.k.a . Mister Negative ) are working for a sixth mysterious benefactor . The demonstration never actually says the name , but it ’s unclouded : The scoundrel of the game are going to be none other than the infamous Sinister Six .
Although in the comics Mister Negative has never been a fellow member of the team , the balance of the villains we saw in the demo all have story with the Sinister Six — in fact , Electro and Vulture were founding members of the group when it was first organize in the pages of 1964 ’s The Amazing Spider - Man Annual # 1 .
The original six — Kraven the Hunter , Sandman , Vulture , Electro , Mysterio , and engineer Doc Ock — didn’t really form for any particular intellect . They mainly just figured that individually they were n’t capable of take down Spider - Man , so why not lay aside their remainder in an endeavor to get retaliation together ? However , this determination go to them taking part in what might be Doc Ock ’s worst - ever programme : choosing an order in which to fight Spider - Man in , and then doing so one by one in dissimilar location while Octavius kidnaps Aunt May and Betty Brandt .
It did n’t go well . But that ’s not bar unlike interpretation of the Sinister Six uniting over the decades since their first failed team - up . Pretty muchmost of Spider - Man ’s biggest foeshave been associated with the Six at some point over the year , and the squad has even blow up beyond a six - baddie frame-up at times . There was a Sinister Seven during the infamous Clone Saga that lead to Spidey teaming up with Kaine ( the edgelord antihero / notorious clone of Peter Parker ) to take them down , and the Marvel Knights Spider - Man series in the mid-2000s picture Norman Osborn recruit a Sinister Twelve . But what ’s never switch is their chief impetus for merge : They ’ve all get a grudge with Spider - Man and want to take him down , once and for all .
That still seems to be the type in Spider - Man , which features a more experient version of Peter Parker who ’s been operating as a champion foreight years before the events of the game . The new demonstration sequence let us cognise that he ’s personally put each of these villain ( save for Mister Negative , at least yet ) behind bars during that time . But what we do n’t sleep together is just who brought them together while they were imprisoned , the real mastermind behind the Sinister Six .
We do get some hints though . We have sex that whoever take form this fresh Sinister Six also provided each member with new tech - enhanced supersuits to magnify their ability , for appetizer . And at the very end of the demonstration , the orphic member usher up to heckle a defeated Spider - Man , but they ’re unseen to the audience . Peter , however , recognizes them with a shock — so it ’s likely either someone he knows or another intimate villain to him .
Given Doctor Octopus ’ farseeing history with the Six , as well as the new suits hinting at a tech - savvy villain , he seems like the most obvious selection . But what would be his connection to Peter that makes Spider - Man so surprised to see him ? Plus , we have yet to hear if Octavius is in the biz , but another potential prospect is : Norman Osborn . But all that ’s been say of him is that he ’s presently execute a political crusade to be the next New York Mayor , so whether he ’s also secretly run as the Green Goblin remains to be seen .
It wo n’t be long before we get to discover for ourselves — Spider - Man swing onto the PS4 September 7 .
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