Creating a new, iconic suit design is for Spider-Man is a difficult task, but Insomniac not only stepped up to the challenge in Marvel's Spider-Man, but it also delivered one of the greatest redesigns in Spider-Man's history with the Advanced Suit. While the popularity of the Sony Spider-Man films and the MCU films might prompt many players to want to play through the game in their favorite film suit, such as the No Way Home suits in Marvel's Spider-Man, arguably the game's best suit is actually its default: the Advanced Suit. The Advanced Suit is created early in Marvel's Spider-Man after his original suit is damaged during a fight with Kingpin. After Peter is discovered repairing the suit by his employer, Dr. Otto Octavius, Octavius helps Peter upgrade the suit, giving players the Advanced Suit, an original design by Insomniac.
The challenge of creating a new suit for Spider-Man is a tough balancing act. On the one hand, it has to be unique and stand out among the many Spider-Man suit designs that have been created throughout the years. On the other hand, it needs to pay homage to Spider-Man's roots and evoke the look and feel of Spider-Man as a character. The Advanced Suit's impressive design, paired with Marvel's Spider-Man's lifelike graphics, helps the Advanced suit to achieve that balancing act perfectly, making a uniquely designed suit that also feels like a very natural evolution of Spider-Man's classic, iconic designs. While the red and blue colors help maintain Spider-Man's iconic color scheme, the large white emblem, white bracers, and newly-designed feet guards help to show the suit's technological evolution.
While there are many reasons why Marvel's Spider-Man's version of the character remains a fan-favorite, with Marvel's Spider-Man's Peter Parker beating Tom Holland's in a poll, the successful and now iconic design of the Advanced Suit is certainly one of them. The Advanced Suit has already inspired many collectible figures, including multiple Marvel's Legends figure releases and a $250 USD Sideshow Collectible 1/6 scale figure. It has also become a popular choice of suit for Spider-Man cosplayers.
What Makes Marvel's Spider-Man's Advanced Suit Such A Great Design
Throughout the years, there have been many redesigns of Spider-Man's suit, some better than others. Many fans have been comparing Marvel's Spider-Man's suits to Marvel's Avengers', a game that recently added Spider-Man as a playable character. While Marvel's Avengers' original Spidey design, the Iconic Suit, is fitting the game's overall design, the dull colors are drab and the thin, black emblem gets lost in the mix. Marvel's Spider-Man's Advanced Suit stands in stark contrast to this, with bold colors that evoke the hero's comic book origins, and a large, white emblem that really stands out. The emblem itself, with its long, sharp limb designs, bear similarities to Mark Bagely's iconic Ben Reilly/Scarlet Spider emblem design, and it looks fantastic on the Advanced Suit.
While only time will tell for sure, the popularity of the Advanced Suit and its unique and iconic designs will likely keep a fan-favorite long after Marvel Spider-Man's player base begins to dwindle. With rumors indicating that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 may feature symbiote variants of every suit, the Advanced Suit's design would translate well into a symbiote variant, with the white emblem design contrasting starkly to the black symbiote colors. Marvel's Spider-Man features a number of impressive visual design choices, but the Advanced Suit still remains one of its most impressive, and really stands its own against many of Spider-Man's most popular designs.