Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game for the Super NES and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, developed by Software Creations and published by Acclaim Entertainment and it's…
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a fighting developed by Acclaim Black Team, released 16 September 1994 on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a fighting game developed by Acclaim Black Team and released in 1994. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is a side-scrolling beat 'em up game for the Super NES and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, developed by Software Creations and published by Acclaim Entertainment and it's subsidiary LJN in 1994. The game, based on a sprawling comic book story arc of the same name, features numerous heroes, including Spider-Man, Venom, and their allies from the Marvel Comics fictional universe like Captain America, Black Cat, Iron Fist, Cloak and Dagger, Deathlok, Morbius and Firestar, all teaming up to battle an onslaught of villains led by Carnage, including Shriek, Doppelganger, Demogoblin and Carrion. Both the Genesis/Mega Drive and Super NES versions come in a red…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Marvel series
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is the 32nd of 404 entries we hold in the Marvel series. It arrived 9 months after Captain America and the Avengers. The next entry was X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse in 1994.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 4 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage launched on 16 September 1994, within three weeks of EarthBound, DOOM II, Doom II: Hell on Earth and System Shock (1994).
Released around the same time: EarthBound, DOOM II, Doom II: Hell on Earth, System Shock (1994).
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