Spiderman Series

Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage

Excerpt from Genesis Game Guide by The Scribe

NAME:             Spiderman series (5 titles)
AUTHOR/VENDOR:    various
RELEASED:         various
TYPE:             Action
LANGUAGE:         English

PREMISE:          A series of games based on the wall-crawling superhero
                  personally created by Stan Marvel for Marvel Comics.

IMPRESSIONS:      You would think that with all these different programming
                  houses involved, at least one would do justice to the
                  franchise.  They don't.  The best of the series is only
                  mediocre, and some are downright obnoxious.  Spiderman
                  fans will probably have a field day, but the rest of us
                  will get bored fast.

VARIATIONS:       Spiderman vs. the Kingpin (1991 by Sega, Spiderman
                    squares off against a mob boss bent on taking over the
                    city - not bad for an early effort, and certainly not
                    as obnoxious or pretensious as some of the latter
                    entries in the series)
                  Spiderman - The Animated Series (1993 by Western
                    Technologies and marketed by Acclaim, ol' Spidey has
                    to deal with three of his more formidable foes after
                    they stage a daring jailbreak and begin to raise all
                    sorts of hell - average graphics and gameplay, and has
                    the worst sound mix of the lot)
                  Spiderman and the X-Men - Arcade's Revenge (1993 by
                    Software Creations, marketed by Acclaim under their
                    Flying Edge product line, Spidey gets the unenviable
                    task of saving his fellow superheroes the X-Men from
                    an unknown enemy - the silliest story of the lot, and
                    kinda frustrating in places)
                  Spiderman and Venom - Maximum Carnage (1994 by Software
                    creations and released by LJN, Spidey teams up with
                    his alterego Venom to fight his second alterego
                    Carnage - confusing plot unless you're familiar with
                    the comic books, but at least the graphics are decent
                    and the gameplay is bearable)
                  Spiderman and Venom - Separation Anxiety (1995 by
                    Software Creations and released by Acclaim, Spidey and
                    team up once again to help Venom fight off his own
                    clones and the people responsible for them - very much
                    like its predecessor, where you beat people up for
                    twenty or so levels - this is one of the hardest Spidey
                    games to track down because it was the last one
                    released for the platform)

Page Viewed 39917 Times