Few couples of more charismatic characters have left us Rockstar Games like the one made up by the Bellic cousins in GTA IV. Niko and Roman were close to each other during their Liberty City Adventures, always treading the mud of illegality and at the same time trying to achieve the American dream. However, it seems that idea disappeared in Marvel's Spider-Man.
During the 2018 Insomniac Games installment, there is a side mission in which Peter Parker must investigate the affairs of a gang of robbers in a safe house. To do this, it is necessary to climb the façade of a building and tune your ears well to find out about his plans, at the same time that the wall-crawler takes all kinds of photographs of the plans that detail his future plans. Here you can see the sequence.
What is most striking about the whole conversation is that there is a certain Niko who refers to Roman, his nephew, who will be in charge of driving the vehicles with which they will escape. The idea is rob an Atlantic City casino and later it will be time to stop them while they flee in the cars. Obviously, this is a direct wink from the Sony developer towards the protagonists of the fourth installment of GTA.
Otherwise, there are no major similarities between both universes, beyond the fact that the city is set in real New York. Besides, Roman would never get into such trouble that they force him to shoot and get his hands dirty. He's more used to screwing up on his own and having Niko save his ass.
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