This is the 6th Spider-Man game I've played in chronological order as part of a challenge I'm doing. Let me quickly recap: I've played 80 games between 1990 and 1992 before playing this game. 5 of those 80 were Spider-Man games. Three of those Spider-Man games make for the Top 3 Worst Games I've played as part of this challenge. None of the 5 games I'd consider giving anything above 1.5 stars.
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge, developed by Software Creations and published by 'I'll get the Spider-Man license just to absolutely shit on it' Acclaim Entertainment, released in November 1992 and calls itself an Action-Platformer. While doing so, it's playing fast and loose with the term 'Action', as from the get-go, you realize two things.
First, as per usual, the controls are horrible. That said, the game has the best controls out of all 6 Spider-Man games I've played in this time period, which says more about the state of Spider-Man games than it does about this game. Using the web is possible here, but most of the time you'll have a lower body part touch a platform and fall to your death, as while airborne, you can't activate the web. It's the same handicap that Spider-Man has, as everyone knows.
Second, after a little while, you realize what the actual goal of the first level. Collect some collectable items in some random order that your "Spider senses" direct you towards. This means you just end up awkwardly climbing up and down walls waiting for the Spider sense to trigger once you're close enough, then you run up to the collectable, collect it and go to the next one until the exit opens. Wow.
Perhaps this helps to distract you from the graphics, which, for an SNES (!) game, look horrendous, though again, probably make it the 2nd best looking Spider-Man just behind Spider-Man vs the Kingpin on the Genesis.
The awful controls will dawn on you once you get to the second stage. As per usual, I'm saddened by the state of the license, as continuously releasing god-awful games sounds harder than Acclaim Entertainment and their development studios make it look.
Luckily, there is another Spider-Man game releasing pretty soon in 1993.
(This is the 81st game in my challenge to go through many known games in chronological order starting in 1990. The spreadsheet is in my bio.)
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge, developed by Software Creations and published by 'I'll get the Spider-Man license just to absolutely shit on it' Acclaim Entertainment, released in November 1992 and calls itself an Action-Platformer. While doing so, it's playing fast and loose with the term 'Action', as from the get-go, you realize two things.
First, as per usual, the controls are horrible. That said, the game has the best controls out of all 6 Spider-Man games I've played in this time period, which says more about the state of Spider-Man games than it does about this game. Using the web is possible here, but most of the time you'll have a lower body part touch a platform and fall to your death, as while airborne, you can't activate the web. It's the same handicap that Spider-Man has, as everyone knows.
Second, after a little while, you realize what the actual goal of the first level. Collect some collectable items in some random order that your "Spider senses" direct you towards. This means you just end up awkwardly climbing up and down walls waiting for the Spider sense to trigger once you're close enough, then you run up to the collectable, collect it and go to the next one until the exit opens. Wow.
Perhaps this helps to distract you from the graphics, which, for an SNES (!) game, look horrendous, though again, probably make it the 2nd best looking Spider-Man just behind Spider-Man vs the Kingpin on the Genesis.
The awful controls will dawn on you once you get to the second stage. As per usual, I'm saddened by the state of the license, as continuously releasing god-awful games sounds harder than Acclaim Entertainment and their development studios make it look.
Luckily, there is another Spider-Man game releasing pretty soon in 1993.
(This is the 81st game in my challenge to go through many known games in chronological order starting in 1990. The spreadsheet is in my bio.)