(This is the 115th game in my challenge to go through many known games in chronological order starting in 1990. The spreadsheet/blog is in my bio.)
Just when you praise a Spider-Man game for not being complete garbage like the previous seven (!) video game entries for the franchise, and just when you say that Acclaim Entertainment actually published a game that doesn't suck complete butt, you get Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety. Now the 9th out of 9 Spider-Man games I played that hasn't even hit 50/100 in my review system, Separation Anxiety (1995) is an uninspired and clearly unbudgeted sequel to 1994's Maximum Carnage.
Basically, Software Creations made an OK Spider-Man beat 'em up game. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that sold at least OK. So whatever budget Acclaim Entertainment gave Software Creations, which based on the quality of their games probably wasn't a lot, they saw how well the devs did despite the odds and said "Hey, if you can make a game that is actually half-OK with a budget of $10, then make a sequel with a budget of $1." And that's what this game is.
It features the same gameplay pretty much exactly, with only two differences. 1) Some of the basic, repetitive enemy types are replaced with equally basic, repetitive enemy types. 2) They removed the comic book storytelling and replaced it with simple text.... Yep. A sequel offering less than the original is not the ideal way to do things, is it?
Similarly to the original, gameplay is really bad and involves mashing one button for most of the time and watching as you can pretty much not avoid getting hit constantly. How people beat these games without emulators and rewinds is beyond me. I tried without that feature for the first 45 minutes, couldn't even get past the first level, tried for 15 minutes with rewinding, beat the first level and gave up shortly after because this game does not deserve to be played, let alone beaten.
The game is riddled with everything that makes Spider-Man video games just the saddest thing I've discovered about the 90s as part of this challenge. Low budget, bad gameplay, bland and repetitive visuals, boring and basic soundtrack, and just a very unfun time overall. Avoid.
Just when you praise a Spider-Man game for not being complete garbage like the previous seven (!) video game entries for the franchise, and just when you say that Acclaim Entertainment actually published a game that doesn't suck complete butt, you get Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety. Now the 9th out of 9 Spider-Man games I played that hasn't even hit 50/100 in my review system, Separation Anxiety (1995) is an uninspired and clearly unbudgeted sequel to 1994's Maximum Carnage.
Basically, Software Creations made an OK Spider-Man beat 'em up game. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that sold at least OK. So whatever budget Acclaim Entertainment gave Software Creations, which based on the quality of their games probably wasn't a lot, they saw how well the devs did despite the odds and said "Hey, if you can make a game that is actually half-OK with a budget of $10, then make a sequel with a budget of $1." And that's what this game is.
It features the same gameplay pretty much exactly, with only two differences. 1) Some of the basic, repetitive enemy types are replaced with equally basic, repetitive enemy types. 2) They removed the comic book storytelling and replaced it with simple text.... Yep. A sequel offering less than the original is not the ideal way to do things, is it?
Similarly to the original, gameplay is really bad and involves mashing one button for most of the time and watching as you can pretty much not avoid getting hit constantly. How people beat these games without emulators and rewinds is beyond me. I tried without that feature for the first 45 minutes, couldn't even get past the first level, tried for 15 minutes with rewinding, beat the first level and gave up shortly after because this game does not deserve to be played, let alone beaten.
The game is riddled with everything that makes Spider-Man video games just the saddest thing I've discovered about the 90s as part of this challenge. Low budget, bad gameplay, bland and repetitive visuals, boring and basic soundtrack, and just a very unfun time overall. Avoid.