One of the most famous features of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is fast travel, and it comes with a revolutionary movement compared to other games due to the unprecedented speeds, as it only takes a second and a little more to move from one place to another at any point on the map, but the feature was... At risk of not being implemented in the full version.

During GDC 2024 (as spotted by IGN), the design director said: “Joshua Benavidez“A behind-the-scenes story about the development of fast travel and the difficulties Insomniac Games initially faced when introducing it into Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and despite the fact that the feature was something new and impressive for developers at the time, but at the same time the studio saw that the feature would completely destroy the game because… It didn't go as requested.

Fast travel proved to be so bad that the developer considered canceling or postponing it, but it was a flaw in the game's structure itself, so the map was redesigned and reworked to encourage players to explore every corner of New York, and it was implemented. The feature will eventually be released in the final version of the game.

These interesting stories confirm the constant perseverance of developers in making their games the best they can be, especially when we talk about a studio as concerned with the quality of its games as Insomniac.

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