This game could be a good way to spend some time between issues.Comicbook_burnout Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Comicverse), Spider-Man (Ultimateverse), Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi), The Spectacular Spider-Man (Cartoon), Spider-Man the Animated Series (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Avengers (Comics), X-Men (Comicverse), Fantastic Four (Comicverse) In this game, Spider-Man certainly does whatever a spider can, but the comic's still the grand showcase for his talents. The funky new Spider-Man theme's hip, bit the effects are blah. The sparse sounds, on the other hand, are pretty much there to fill air space. Comic-book fans will also dig the nicely detailed pix of the Spider foes. The deep repertoire of Spider moves contribute to the strong graphics.
Moreover, the Fantastic Four merely appear with power-ups. As a short-range weapon, even the famous Web-shooter's a little weak.
The controls have it easy with the Webbed One's ho-hum fighting skills: a basic punch, slow one-two combination, regular kick, and jump kick. Put in reasonable thumb time, and you'll climb walls, swing through the air, and sneak across ceilings like an ace Webhead. Caught in the WebĪlthough Spidey's controls lack fighting pizzazz, they really make the Spider powers shine. The real challenge is in trying to maneuver through the levels, where you'll burn some brain time trying to make fantastic jumps and web-sling to the exits. And, though Doc Ock's challenging boss attack starts things off with flair, the rest of the cruel crew attack in limited, predictable patterns. Such standard bad guys as robots, thugs, and armored assassins are unimaginative, weak, and few and far between. Overall, however, the fighting action will disappoint Spider-Man veterans. The side-view fist-fighting and wall-crawling arachnid antics are great for kids and as intermediate Spider friends. That's too bad, since Doctor Octopus, Rhino, Lizard, and more of Spidey's greatest adversaries are ready to rumble. Spider-Man fares better, however, a thinking game than an action caper. Spider-Man's on the hunt to snare a gang of supervillains with cameo help from the fabulous Fantastic Four. Although the two 16- bit games are virtually identical, this SNES version makes Spider sense for all but hardcore action nuts. Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man's web-slinging his way onto the SNES and the Genesis. This looks like the Spider-Man game that fans have been waiting for. To top things off, Separation Anxiety has a catchy soundtrack. The graphics are a lot cleaner than before, making for a vast improvement over Maximum Carnage, which disappointed a few fans. You can grab enemies or climb up building to obtain hidden power-ups.
You have a variety of punches and kicks, but the main emphasis is using your web (or with Venom, his pseudopods). You'll need all the help you can get, because you are instantly swarmed by thugs as soon as the game begins. Play as either Spider-Man or Venom, and it is possible to have a two-player simultaneous game using both. The control has been tweaked over the older engine and the animation seems a lot smoother. Separation Anxiety is more or less a sequel to Maximum Carnage (another action game that came out last year). For the first time ever, Spider-Man and Venom must work together in a slugfest that will rock both your Super NES and Genesis.