Key Highlights:
- New Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 footage shows Kraven confronting Peter Parker while he is wearing the symbiote suit.
- Kraven rings a large church bell, immediately causing Peter and the symbiote considerable pain.
- Insomniac has confirmed that its version of the symbiote retains the familiar weakness to certain sounds.
A new clip from Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 shows Kraven the Hunter discovering how vulnerable Peter Parker’s symbiote suit is to sound during a tense confrontation inside a church.
The scene opens with Peter already bonded to the Black Suit and confronting Kraven at close range. Rather than immediately attacking Spider-Man, Kraven studies his opponent before striking a large church bell beside them.
The effect is immediate.
Peter collapses in pain as the symbiote reacts violently to the sound, establishing that Insomniac is retaining one of the organism’s best-known vulnerabilities within its own Spider-Man universe.
PlayStation’s hands-on report confirms that the Black Suit is hypersensitive to sound and describes the church sequence as the moment the weakness is demonstrated.
The confrontation also provides another look at the version of Kraven Insomniac has been building ahead of release. Kraven’s arrival in New York and his search for an equal had already established the Great Hunt, but this clip shows how quickly he studies a dangerous opponent and turns a vulnerability against them.
Peter behaves differently as well.
Insomniac has already shown that the symbiote makes his fighting style more aggressive, with tendrils, heavier attacks and greater physical force. The church sequence pushes that change beyond combat mechanics by showing Peter struggling to control himself while confronting Kraven.
What catches my attention most is Kraven’s reaction. He does not simply survive an encounter with symbiote-powered Peter; he immediately identifies something capable of hurting him and uses it without hesitation.
The sound weakness also links Insomniac’s version of the symbiote back to one of its most established characteristics across Spider-Man comics and adaptations without revealing exactly how Peter will eventually deal with it.
For now, the footage confirms that sound can disrupt the symbiote while Peter is bonded to it, giving Kraven a potentially important advantage during their confrontation.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 launches for PlayStation 5 on October 20, 2023.
Later update: The released game confirms that the symbiote remains vulnerable to high-frequency sound throughout the story, with sonic attacks becoming an important way of weakening symbiote enemies. GLN’s breakdown of the symbiote’s weaknesses covers how those vulnerabilities ultimately work in the finished game.
