Maximum Carnage

by Sega

Product Details

• ASIN: B00002ST7H
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,279 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Manufacturer Description

Only one maniacal madman can force Spider-Man to unite with his sinister arch nemesis Venom: CARNAGE! His deadly rampage is tearing New York City apart! Only wild web-slinging maneuvers, crushing combat moves, and superhero allies can save the city from total obliteration. It's maximum mayhem! It's Maximum Carnage! Paint the town red!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maximum Carnage, June 8, 2002

By 

Jerry Rice (Winnipeg MB) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maximum Carnage (Video Game)

BAsically this game is just a sidescroller. But it's the best damn sidescroller you're gonna play. Starring Spider-Man, and allowing you to be Venom, you can absolutely destroy all opposition and swing from webs. (Tres Cool) The only downside is it's a looong game and without a save feature or passwords you have to sit down in one marathon session to ever beat the game. Very rewarding though. I gotta say this is my favourite game of all time.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Maximum fun!, August 8, 2003

By 

Eugene W. Kelly, Jr. (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Maximum Carnage (Video Game)

In this game, you must play as Spider-man and/or Venom and defeat the psychotic Carnage and his band of super villains. Along the way, you get help from characters such as Captain America and Firestar. The graphics are great and the moving comic strips pull the story along in a flowing manner. A must have for any Spider-man or Marvel fan.

13 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars One of the later entries into the Genesis foray-not the best, January 22, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Maximum Carnage (Video Game)

Maximum Carnage (released in late 1994) is a shallow kicky-punchy game akin to Streets of Rage, but much more dismal. As you might have expected, it features Spider Man in a variety of situations battling Carnage (the evil half-human half-alien symbiont). Spiderman is assisted by his arch-nemesis Venom and an array of Marvel Superheroes who make cameo appearances as one-time use special items ( for example, when you activate a Firestar item, she descends from the top of the screen and fires at the enemies during her flyby). Although the game's characters have a limited series of moves, they all look too laughable to be described as "useful". Likewise, the only items available are health, lives, and continues. If worked properly, this can lead to a hard, but enjoyable game (X-Men, on Genesis), but in this case EVERYTHING IS SIMILARLY GENERIC! You battle 8 varieties of enemies in innumerable but unfailingly similar stages, frequently dying due to the unbalanced gameplay and horrid controls. Each time you face the bosses, you face the exactly same villains (Shriek, Carnage, Doppleganger and Hobgoblin, to be specific - all of them at once). Unless all you can enjoy is mindless games like this, avoid Maximum Carnage at all costs.