Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Shortchanged Hailey Cooper - Here's How to Fix It

Reviewers can ramble about what’s been great about the game, but sometimes even great games come with problems. One such problem is popping up online from players complaining about a side mission with Hailey Cooper in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2.

[VersusDMC]

They recommend Hailey Cooper DLC?! Any dlc that doesn't include a playable spider man is getting flamed to infinity.

And i would 100% prefer Mary Jane or Rio if they wanted to make DLC like that.

[TricksterArrow]

Yep. She is a’ight… as a secondary and minor character. No need to be pushing her into the spotlight. MJ is already pushing it, but I love stealthing and I actually like MJ as a character throughout the years, so I can live with that.

Would be more interesting having Black Cat doing the stealth missions to be completely honest, make her more involved in the story. Maybe even Silver Sable herself.

[-Foxtrot]

Why are people obsessing over this character, she was bland as hell and the only reason people give a shit is because she’s deaf. I’m sorry but she had no chemistry with Miles and the text to voice AI thing she had for phone conversations was grating to listen to with how computerised it was.

We could have had Gwen Stacey, Kate Bishop, Cassie Lang or Kamala Khan with each of them having some kind of romantic interest in other media. At least all of these could have helped you out on missions and if you played as them you’d probably get a better mission.

[Inverno]

I don't think anyone is actually obsessing over her. People are just pointing out how the one mission with her is boring, much like how people pointed out how bland the non spiderman missions were in the last 2 games. Sites grab that, change the meaning around so that people come off as racist or hateful towards deaf people and use that as an excuse to bring her up.

[Rocketisleague]

I don't get the need to shoehorn pure shit into games these days. Maybe marvel had a say in the game that's why it's putting this nonsense it. Don't follow the MCU insomniac. Please

[-Foxtrot]

My issue is they had so many love interests for Miles in the comics yet didn't do them, each of them a superhero character who could have had some great missions if they were involved with Miles instead of this new character.

Kate Bishop - You could have helped pick targets off a rooftop for Miles using stun arrows

Cassie Lang - Go small and infiltrate a building to help Miles who is in trouble

Kamala Khan - After the Avengers game, we know what she can do power wise.

Gwen Stacey - Harder to pull off as they'd have to double down on the Spiderverse stuff but even Gwen as herself would have been better and she's a Spiderman based character.

[H9]

The author talks about switching to MJ like it's a great thing that they should copy for this character, it's the one thing people hated in both games

[SyntheticForm]

If this game did anything, it made me entirely disinterested in buying future Spider-Man games.

[SyntheticForm]

@redlight

I'm generally a pretty big fan of PlayStation first-party fare, and my criticisms of Spider-Man 2 have absolutely nothing to with console warring. However, your criticism of my comments has everything to do with console warring - it's what drove your unhinged response and prompted you to go comment rummaging.

Yes, sometimes I criticize PlayStation games. That's not "propaganda" - it's merely criticism and opinion that doesn't align with your own. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the term "propaganda" so that you avoid misapplying it in the future.

[Profchaos]

I still loved the game but it makes me want insomniac to move onto something else since 2018 this is 5he third game we got excluding a remake of sm1.

Sure they did rift apart but they do world building so well I just want something new from them that isn't superhero based I know wolverine is next it's just the superhero fad is Start to feel a little done at this point

[SyntheticForm]

@Prof

The combat and traversal are enjoyable, but the writing and side missions are absolutely not, nor is playing as "Hailey" who I couldn't give a fraction of a damn about. There are just too many non-Spider-Man elements to this Spider-Man product.

Writers are using the inherently morally upright worlds of superheroes as their new dumping grounds to push woke agendas, and they've packed Spider-Man 2 with 'feel-good' woke stories of 'acceptance' and 'tolerance.' I'm sorry, I don't play these games to endure woke lessons - I play them for entertainment purposes and to escape - often to escape the very same shit Insomniac are pushing here. Why double down on the loathed MJ missions? Why is she equal to or as important as Spider-Man? She isn't, nor is Hailey. They should be kept confined to cutscenes as absolutely nobody desires playable sections as them.

I don't care any about this, or a gay couple. I just want to play a Spider-Man game.

[Profchaos]

I'll give them some credit it was a little better being MJ in sm2 but still overly long and tedious you just get a teaser now and move at much more like say the stealth section of tlou2 so a little faster.

I think they did need something to break up the constant spidy swing here fight him but they could of done something else especially since they were told flat out this is what we hated in sm1 universally

[CrimsonWing69]

I hope to god Miles falls for someone else in the next game.

[-Foxtrot]

At least we won’t have to listen to awful text to voice computerised voice phone calls

Nails on a chalk board

[CrimsonWing69]

I’m with you on that, lol.

[rippermcrip]

This has got to be the weirdest article.

They start off focusing on how people hate the mission.

Then the next section comes to the conclusion that she just needs a DLC expansion. Somehow puts this new minor side character on the level of MJ and seems surprised why they aren't given equal time.

[Profchaos]

Sounds like a diversity for clicks thing

[Profchaos]

Shortchanged she wasn't interesting in the least so why give her screen time yeah she's deaf and it's cool to be inclusive or at least companies think that but I brought a Spider-Man game but a dating Sim and on that note they interacted via text and there was no emotion there in the slightest things like sorry didn't make it to your exhibit were met with a simple ok so watching these two together was so forced.

On that note so was Pete and MJ until a certain scene

[goldwyncq]

Imagine if we're forced to play as Aunt May or J Jonah Jameson in some missions.

A Spider-Man game should be a Spider-Man game only.

[babadivad]

The game is called Spider-Man not Hailey Cooper. Any time we're playing anyone BUT Spider-Man is "short changing" they paying customers.

[LucidIllusion]

Please no just no. Quit adding non factor/boring characters to missions and stories in general. MJ missions are barely tolerable as is.