PS4 Vs PS5: Peter Parker In Marvel’s Spider-Man Has Been Whitewashed

Has Spider-man’s remastered face redesign really been ruined?

Winifred J. Akpobi
3 min readOct 3, 2020
Original Peter Parker and remastered Peter Parker from right to left. Photo from CBR

Insomniac Games announced the remastering of Peter Parker in Marvel’s Spider-Man a while ago and after being shortly anticipated, the image above is what we got — a complete opposite of what we expected.

It was replaced; the face model John Bubniak with Ben Jordan, to match the facial capture performance from Yuri Lowenthal.

This moved the creative director of Insomniac Games, Bryan Intihar to make a public announcement on Twitter to serve as sympathy for fans.

It even took me a while to get used to Peter’s new look.

He admitted it to be necessary as a result of the PS5 movement. In his words:

Screenshot by author

A 60 fps video (gameplay footage) was released to show the remastered piece of Peter Parker’s character on September 30th.

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