Where are the Avengers in Spider-Man on PS4?

By Joshua Yehl

Update: Thanks to the Marvel Avengers revelation at the 2019 E3 Square-Enix press conference, we now know where the Avengers are … in a way. Although Marvel's Spider-Man (Insomniac Games) was created by a studio different from that of Marvel's Avengers (Crystal Dynamics), and they are both published by different companies and are not necessarily located within the same universe, we hope that the reference below links the two games. together, even informally. Check out the trailer below:

In the Marvel Avengers trailer of the E3 2019 over the Avengers appear in San Francisco for the opening of the West Coast Avengers. In Spider-Man PS4, when you take a photo of the Avengers Tower for the first time as part of your parallel quest to photograph different monuments, you are invited to a brief but important dialogue by Spider-Man: "The Avengers Tower , very cool! Too bad they're never here to use it. They are on the west coast or something like that. Probably surfing. "Although we have no official confirmation that these two games share the same world, it's a pretty open connection. Spider-Man told us where the Avengers were in last year's edition, and now this Avengers game resumes with the team at this exact location. Hard to think that it's purely a coincidence!

Long-time Marvel fans will recognize Spidey's line as a mere reference to a comic strip team called The West Coast Avengers.

The West Coast Avengers gathered for the first time in secret wars where the omnipotent manipulator, known as Beyonder, kidnapped Marvel's most powerful heroes and villains, took them to a place called Battleworld and made them fight to know who was better. During their absence, Vision became president of the Avengers. Upon their return, Vision wanted a greater presence of the Avengers and entrusted to the West Coast Avengers a new Avengers Compound under the sun of Los Angeles, California. The original team was led by Hawkeye and included Wonder Man, Mockingbird, Tigra and James Rhodes in Iron Man armor.

We think the main reason why Spider-Man had to say that the Avengers were elsewhere is because we play Spider Man and it would not be very entertaining if someone like Thor was flying to New York while shouting all the thugs before your Spidey sense disappeared. If the game were to include Avengers Tower, then the people at Insomniac Games had to find a way to address them, and this vague explanation is: juuust enough to give us a general idea of ​​why the Avengers are not here: they are avenging! And now, Crystal Dynamics may have told us what the Avengers are doing.

Be sure to check out our interview with lead creative designer Bryan Initihar about how the game reinvents the Spider-Man mythology:

Joshua is editor at IGN Comics. If Pokemon, Green Lantern or Game of Thrones are frequently used words in your vocabulary, you will want to follow it Twitter @JoshuaYehl and IGN.