Maximum Carnage had that one level where you had to climb up a wall so you could get to Shriek, dodging sonic blasts from above and leaping from building to building. But most beat-em-ups, most good beat-em-ups, usually have enough sense to keep things spicy.
Yes, that’s pretty much the essence of any beat-em-up’s gameplay. Fight the end boss and move on to the next level. Forget about the way things move slower than Maximum Carnage, forget that the enemies are repetitious even for a beat-em-up, forget that almost every screen in every level looks like the one that came before it hell, even forget that the Spider-Man and Venom and all the returning enemies actually look crappier and less detailed than they did in the predecessor. Chances are, you’re not going to recognize any of the D-grade villains they’ll be sending your way, and you’ll wind up referring to them with names like ‘that guy in a green suit that shoots lasers out of his chest’ and ‘that guy in a gray suit who flies around on pads’.īut let’s just forget about the cosmetics for a moment.
Chances are, you don’t know what the Life Foundation is. Maximum Carnage was full of throwaway villains like Shriek and Doppleganger, but at least they were quasi-interesting when they first appeared Separation Anxiety pits you against a bunch of ill-conceived symbiote clones and the people who created the ill-conceived symbiote clones, the oddly named Life Foundation. The storyline it came from was weak in the first place, and there’s no attempt to hide that here most of your time is going to be spent fighting color-swapped versions of the same enemy in exotic locales like the mall and the sewer for poorly explained reasons. It doesn’t progress the story with comic panels it gives you a wall of text before each mission and lets you go. Separation Anxiety, however, does not have that style. Like it or hate, it was there in full force. You had the moving comic book panels, the written sound effects with every punch, even the occasional sound bite of Carnage laughing his Joker-wannabe head off damned impressive for their time, still cool for ours, faithful to the subject material. Maximum Carnage had a definite and definitive comic book style to it. To fully appreciate how much Separation Anxiety sucks, you must fully appreciate how much Maximum Carnage rocks.
" Separation Anxiety, however, does not have that style. Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety (Genesis) review
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