The other Streets of Rage 3
Okay-ish beat 'em up. It has a lot of problems, wish it was more polished.
This game is decent, and actually a bit fun. Nothing special (aside from that sexy red snes cart) but that alone makes it the best thing LJN has ever made.
I love this game and got many many hours out of my cartridge. It has nice visuals with actual comic book inserts for cutscenes from the actual comics. The graphics sell the atmosphere and look great. There are a ton of marvel cameos ripped right from the comics too. Both Spider Man and Venom play great and are good representations of them. As for a single player only beat um up goes it's really fun. Hitting enemies feels good, real good. There's enough moves and specials at your dispersal to dispatch the good amount of enemies the game has. It's probably my favorite beat um up on the system only behind the streets of rage games. The music rocks too. The shocking thing is this was made by LJN. Maybe their only good game they ever made.
Fun, but repetitive, and enemies become damage sponges in the end, especially ones that shouldn't be like the Carrion boss. Also, borderline unplayable without an infinite continues cheat.
Played on bsnes emulator.
Played on bsnes emulator.
Pretty fun, but too much really too much repetitive
A musica é boa mas a gameplay é uma merda
I watched a fair bit of Angry Video Game Nerd back in the day, so I know this as "the one good LJN game". And perhaps while this game doesn't plumb the same depths as the Terminator or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I believe the only reason it's "better" than other LJN games is because it's a beat-em-up: a formula that is difficult to completely screw up.
They tried, though.
On a purely surface level, the game suffers from many of the same amateurish design quirks that are a hallmark of LJN games: out-of-place enemies (umbrella-wielding dudes? Really?) with garishly-colored palette swaps, out-of-context cutscenes that don't flow, and an endgame credit crawl that doesn't actually end in a satisfying way, merely bumping you back to the title screen mid-track.
But it's in the gameplay where this game really shows its cracks. The lack of enemy variety and especially boss variety - you mainly fight the same five bosses over and over and over again - means the game starts to feel monotonous after a few minutes. And while the beat-em-up formula means that even a tedious game can make for a fun switch-off-your-brain experience, the controls have to feel good to qualify. The controls here feel stiff, and everything from the hitboxes to priority to the dearth of invincibility frames just feels awkward. Possibly the worst quirk of the controls is how long the game 'remembers' your directional inputs when it comes to dashing. This scenario played out way too many times as I played:
- I'm moving right when I see an enemy approaching and so I decide to dash
- I release the D-pad for about half a second - which in any other game would be long enough for the game to 'forget' the input
- I double-tap right, which should result in a dash. But because the game still hasn't cleared the previous input, my first tap triggers the dash and my second tap cancels it.
The timing was nearly impossible for me to get used to, and the above scenario actually happened much more often than me actually being able to do the dash. And in a game that punishes slow movement and suboptimal positioning as much as this one does, the dash controls ring the death knell for any possibility of fun.
It might seem like I'm being overly harsh on a serviceable licensed game, but I really find it quite hard to think of a context in which this would be considered a good game. As a beat-em-up? Not good. As a licensed Spider-Man game? Well, the wall-crawling is one of the stiffest parts of your moveset and generally seems like an afterthought, so it's not particularly effective in that regard. Was it good for its time? It came out in the same year as Streets of Rage 3, so no. I suppose, if I owned this back when I had seemingly unlimited free time and not enough money to buy many games, I would be able to carve some fun out of it. But for anyone playing this without nostalgia goggles I would recommend to give it a miss.
They tried, though.
On a purely surface level, the game suffers from many of the same amateurish design quirks that are a hallmark of LJN games: out-of-place enemies (umbrella-wielding dudes? Really?) with garishly-colored palette swaps, out-of-context cutscenes that don't flow, and an endgame credit crawl that doesn't actually end in a satisfying way, merely bumping you back to the title screen mid-track.
But it's in the gameplay where this game really shows its cracks. The lack of enemy variety and especially boss variety - you mainly fight the same five bosses over and over and over again - means the game starts to feel monotonous after a few minutes. And while the beat-em-up formula means that even a tedious game can make for a fun switch-off-your-brain experience, the controls have to feel good to qualify. The controls here feel stiff, and everything from the hitboxes to priority to the dearth of invincibility frames just feels awkward. Possibly the worst quirk of the controls is how long the game 'remembers' your directional inputs when it comes to dashing. This scenario played out way too many times as I played:
- I'm moving right when I see an enemy approaching and so I decide to dash
- I release the D-pad for about half a second - which in any other game would be long enough for the game to 'forget' the input
- I double-tap right, which should result in a dash. But because the game still hasn't cleared the previous input, my first tap triggers the dash and my second tap cancels it.
The timing was nearly impossible for me to get used to, and the above scenario actually happened much more often than me actually being able to do the dash. And in a game that punishes slow movement and suboptimal positioning as much as this one does, the dash controls ring the death knell for any possibility of fun.
It might seem like I'm being overly harsh on a serviceable licensed game, but I really find it quite hard to think of a context in which this would be considered a good game. As a beat-em-up? Not good. As a licensed Spider-Man game? Well, the wall-crawling is one of the stiffest parts of your moveset and generally seems like an afterthought, so it's not particularly effective in that regard. Was it good for its time? It came out in the same year as Streets of Rage 3, so no. I suppose, if I owned this back when I had seemingly unlimited free time and not enough money to buy many games, I would be able to carve some fun out of it. But for anyone playing this without nostalgia goggles I would recommend to give it a miss.
Look man there's a lot of issues with this game. Hardly any enemy variety, all the levels are basically generic city streets, and the difficulty is a bit absurd. But you gotta realize when I was five I got to be Venom.
I GOT TO BE VENOM
I
GOT
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VENOM
I GOT TO BE VENOM
I
GOT
TO
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VENOM
it doesn't even have tobey maguire
It cannot be stated enough how weirdly good-feeling the combat in this is while also have basically nothing else to support it.
Game #9
Not very good, honestly. The gameplay is very rote and boring. The enemies are all the same and have nothing to do with Spider-Man, except for the bosses, but even they are repeated. Level environments are super boring as well.
Not very good, honestly. The gameplay is very rote and boring. The enemies are all the same and have nothing to do with Spider-Man, except for the bosses, but even they are repeated. Level environments are super boring as well.
A game with good graphics and fun combat with the webs. The game suffers from lack of continues and lives which makes the frustration at an all time high. Game is not impossible by any means, but the lack of any form of options even on the title screen is shocking. This needed a little bit more time in development.
Has good graphics and a good track.
It starts off good, but a lack of extra lives and continues, combined with quite difficult boss battles diminished a lot of the enjoyment I had playing it.
The overall enemy variety is also rather shallow.
It starts off good, but a lack of extra lives and continues, combined with quite difficult boss battles diminished a lot of the enjoyment I had playing it.
The overall enemy variety is also rather shallow.
On the surface this game looks great. Nice graphics, great soundtrack and wall climbing/web slinging. Once you start playing it though you realise just how god awful this game is. The same boss fights are repeated half a dozen times. Everyone can chip away your health in seconds due to an almost complete lack of i frames. There’s so few enemy types that before long you’re fighting businessmen with umbrellas that LOVE to pick you off from a distance. Couple this with an incredibly sluggish control scheme and a grab attack that does nothing but put you in harms way every time and you’ve got one awful game. It’s your typical arcade port system as well so look forward to far fewer lives and continues than you’d need to beat even half the game.
Even if you’re curious, or like me you could never bear it as a kid and wanted to see the ending I can tell you now… it aint worth it.
Even if you’re curious, or like me you could never bear it as a kid and wanted to see the ending I can tell you now… it aint worth it.
Straight up from the 1993 comic, Spider-Man and Venom have to team up to defeat Carnage.
Both of these characters feel great to play and have various moves, Venom (who can be selected after stage 1) in particular has an overall hefty feeling to him as the ground shakes when he moves, he's stronger than Spider-Man though not by much.
The story is told with comic style cutscenes that do a good job filling you in.
The level design is not very good and there's not a lot of variation. The game suffers from repetitiveness, I fought the same bosses like 6+ times and they're not that exciting to fight. Some are just generic enemies which is just lame to do in a Spider-Man game.
Though it might look like it, this game does not feature co-op which is something that it could have benefited from, specially back in the day. However the sequel Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety does.
Both of these characters feel great to play and have various moves, Venom (who can be selected after stage 1) in particular has an overall hefty feeling to him as the ground shakes when he moves, he's stronger than Spider-Man though not by much.
The story is told with comic style cutscenes that do a good job filling you in.
The level design is not very good and there's not a lot of variation. The game suffers from repetitiveness, I fought the same bosses like 6+ times and they're not that exciting to fight. Some are just generic enemies which is just lame to do in a Spider-Man game.
Though it might look like it, this game does not feature co-op which is something that it could have benefited from, specially back in the day. However the sequel Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety does.
Alright adaptation, alright beat em up. Soundtrack is decent for the time and the cameos are nice, but the repetitiveness of the gameplay and bosses keep it from being great.
One of the best LJN games, but super difficult due to the low amount of continuous and life’s. Would be a lot higher if they weren’t so limited. I thought I beat the last carnage fight and had to give up when you had to fight him for the very last time due to him being so jenky and broken.
Spidey + Venom team up to take down Carnage and it's effin' cool as all hell
Spider-man vs the big red venom. Cool graphics and a killer soundtrack.
Nails the comic book aesthetic along with a great, pure 90's soundtrack, but becomes extremely repetitious rather quick. You'll fight every boss in the game at least three times; twice you fight the entire ensemble altogether.
The gameplay has some damning issues. Bosses can break out of hitstun seemingly randomly. You're never sure if you can connect a full combo, or if the boss will interrupt you mid-string. Before the halfway point you'll have fought every enemy in the game, and the game just repeats the same enemy layouts thenceforth. Sometimes the game moronically obscures the screen with foreground elements.
Maximum Carnage is not terrible. Spiderman/Venom have a sufficient moveset. The hitboxes on their jump moves could be better, and grab & throw animations having no sort of i-frames is awful, but their attack repertoire & mobility are quite fun to use. They have options to chase, bind, wall cling, various air options, and more. The only thing perhaps missing would be some z-axis evasive option like a quickstep or roll. The critical problem really just lies in how the game quickly falls apart 20-minutes in with its repeating structure. There is little motivation to continue playing when your reward for pressing forward is fighting a lacklustre boss from 10-minutes prior, yet again.
If you wish to play Maximum Carnage, play the SNES version as it contains the better music & SFX, but I'd forgo playing this one entirely.
The gameplay has some damning issues. Bosses can break out of hitstun seemingly randomly. You're never sure if you can connect a full combo, or if the boss will interrupt you mid-string. Before the halfway point you'll have fought every enemy in the game, and the game just repeats the same enemy layouts thenceforth. Sometimes the game moronically obscures the screen with foreground elements.
Maximum Carnage is not terrible. Spiderman/Venom have a sufficient moveset. The hitboxes on their jump moves could be better, and grab & throw animations having no sort of i-frames is awful, but their attack repertoire & mobility are quite fun to use. They have options to chase, bind, wall cling, various air options, and more. The only thing perhaps missing would be some z-axis evasive option like a quickstep or roll. The critical problem really just lies in how the game quickly falls apart 20-minutes in with its repeating structure. There is little motivation to continue playing when your reward for pressing forward is fighting a lacklustre boss from 10-minutes prior, yet again.
If you wish to play Maximum Carnage, play the SNES version as it contains the better music & SFX, but I'd forgo playing this one entirely.
Presumably known at the time for having a blood red cartridge that sticks out like a sore thumb, these days it's more known for being an actually competent game published under the LJN brand. Would you believe it's by the same developers as The Tick as well?
Well actually, it's just okay. It kicks ass at first, I do love the cutscenes especially and the music is cool too (although it's by Green Jellÿ, who otherwise do ""comedy rock""), but it doesn't have a lot of enemies and it gets pretty monotonous with time. You always fight the same few bosses as well, none of which are particularly fun and later on they kind of become damage sponges, although not near to the extent of Streets of Rage 3. Carnage in particular is just miserable to fight, especially at the very end.
Despite its flaws, though, it's probably the best Spider-Man game released up to that point, and as for Software Creations it's a big improvement over stuff like The Tick and Plok. In the grand scheme of things it's kind of just alright, but it stands out across superhero games as a whole at that time.
Also, Morbius is there according to the opening credits and he's a fucking laughingstock as of recent, so that was amusing to see, but I never actually saw him during the course of my playthrough. Oops.
Well actually, it's just okay. It kicks ass at first, I do love the cutscenes especially and the music is cool too (although it's by Green Jellÿ, who otherwise do ""comedy rock""), but it doesn't have a lot of enemies and it gets pretty monotonous with time. You always fight the same few bosses as well, none of which are particularly fun and later on they kind of become damage sponges, although not near to the extent of Streets of Rage 3. Carnage in particular is just miserable to fight, especially at the very end.
Despite its flaws, though, it's probably the best Spider-Man game released up to that point, and as for Software Creations it's a big improvement over stuff like The Tick and Plok. In the grand scheme of things it's kind of just alright, but it stands out across superhero games as a whole at that time.
Also, Morbius is there according to the opening credits and he's a fucking laughingstock as of recent, so that was amusing to see, but I never actually saw him during the course of my playthrough. Oops.
The fact that the Venom 2 trailer did NOT bother getting "Mob Rules" by Black Sabbath is a gigantic misstep in its marketing.
That's all I wanted to share. The beat-em-up mechanics within are solid enough, but the difficulty is horribly off-balance. Great soundtrack, though.
That's all I wanted to share. The beat-em-up mechanics within are solid enough, but the difficulty is horribly off-balance. Great soundtrack, though.
its a whatever game but an extra half star cause da cart is red
puedes pegarle a negros, gordos, mujeres, y lo mejor: sale Morbius
punching goons sounds like popping bubble wrap
Um dos piores jogos Beat 'em up que já joguei.
Tá aí um jogo que me iludiu totalmente. Os primeiros minutos de jogatina me fizeram pensar que o jogo era realmente bom, mas é aí que eu me enganei.
Tá pra existir algum Beat 'em up mais maçante e repetitivo do que esse. É muita FALTA de criatividade para criar chefes e inimigos. Os chefes se repetem em várias fases sempre ficando mais difícil do que na fase anterior (O mais bizarro é que você enfrenta todos os chefes TODAS AS FASES, é repetitivo num nível que cansa). Fora que da metade pro fim do jogo a IA fica bizarramente IMPOSSÍVEL.
Em contrapartida os gráficos do jogo que ajudam a contar a história (e até a própria história em si) são muito bons, porque além de uma história legal, os gráficos tem um traço de "histórias em quadrinhos", deixando o jogo com uma estética linda.
Definitivamente era um jogo com um enorme potencial mas que é CHATO por conter um level design deplorável de ruim.
Tá aí um jogo que me iludiu totalmente. Os primeiros minutos de jogatina me fizeram pensar que o jogo era realmente bom, mas é aí que eu me enganei.
Tá pra existir algum Beat 'em up mais maçante e repetitivo do que esse. É muita FALTA de criatividade para criar chefes e inimigos. Os chefes se repetem em várias fases sempre ficando mais difícil do que na fase anterior (O mais bizarro é que você enfrenta todos os chefes TODAS AS FASES, é repetitivo num nível que cansa). Fora que da metade pro fim do jogo a IA fica bizarramente IMPOSSÍVEL.
Em contrapartida os gráficos do jogo que ajudam a contar a história (e até a própria história em si) são muito bons, porque além de uma história legal, os gráficos tem um traço de "histórias em quadrinhos", deixando o jogo com uma estética linda.
Definitivamente era um jogo com um enorme potencial mas que é CHATO por conter um level design deplorável de ruim.
A história é muito foda se, mas é uma história, não zerei por preguiça.
This game has good graphics and a good way to present the story in a comic book fashion, but this is it. Gameplay is ok, but the game is very hard, very hard, even the possibility to play with Venom (spidey's villain) doesn't save this game.