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.