Peter Parker looks like a store-brand Tom Holland in Spider-Man Remastered

Sony has revealed that Spider-Man Remastered can have one main change from the unique: the character mannequin for Peter Parker seems to be fully completely different. He now carefully resembles Tom Holland, who at the moment portrays film Spider-Man.

Insomniac Video games says that the change is as a result of the brand new face mannequin, Ben Jordan, is a “higher match” for Peter Parker/Spider-Man voice actor Yuri Lowenthal’s facial seize. However given the large reputation of Holland’s portrayal of the spidey superhero, the change positive does look like a suspicious coincidence.

I’d additionally identical to to state for no explicit motive that Sony, which owns Insomniac Video games, additionally owns the movie rights to Spider-Man.

In case your reminiscence of the PS4 model of the sport is a bit fuzzy, this tweet reveals simply how drastically the character fashions in every sport differ:

And if you happen to aren’t aware of Tom Holland, right here’s what he seems to be like:

Photograph by Jeff Spicer/Getty Pictures

That’s fairly the resemblance! And only for comparability, right here an image of Yuri Lowenthal — I’ll allow you to resolve which in-game Spidey seems to be extra like him.

Photograph: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA2.0)

Lowenthal himself has weighed in on why there’s a change, if you happen to had been curious:

And Wednesday afternoon, Bryan Intihar, Artistic Director at Insomniac, shared a little more in regards to the choice to vary Peter Parker’s look:

Sony’s weblog submit additionally revealed that Spider-Man Remastered can have a “efficiency mode” that may allow you to play the sport in 60fps. You possibly can see it in motion on this trailer, and I believe it seems to be fairly spectacular:

The weblog additionally says the sport can have “near-instant loading” (although you’ll be capable of activate the charming fast-travel animations of Spider-Man taking the subway if you wish to), 3D audio on sure headphones, and help for the DualSense’s haptic suggestions and adaptive triggers, although Insomniac didn’t say precisely how.

Spider-Man Remastered is included with the $69.99 Spider-Man: Miles Morales Final Version, and can launch on November twelfth alongside the PS5. Spider-Man Remastered will solely be accessible on PS5, although, and solely as a part of the Final Version bundle — you possibly can’t purchase it standalone. And if you happen to’ve already performed by way of Spider-Man on PS4, your saves received’t switch to the remastered model.

Replace September thirtieth, 3:29PM ET: Added tweet from Bryan Intihar.