Customer Reviews

Maximum Carnage

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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.

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.

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.

When you look at the painstakingly long list of comic licensed games that were released for the 16-bit systems of years ago, most were basically just walk from left to right while beating up countless generic villians in a game which lacks any kind of spirit or feel of the comic it is based from and is pretty much Streets of Rage with a comic license attached to it (notably most of which were published by Acclaim or one of their other publishing divisions). Maximum Carnage is based on the mid-nineties massive event that took place in the Spider-Man comics in which Spidey had to team up with Venom to take on Carnage in a ravaged New York. In the game, you can play as Spidey or Venom, and you pretty much do all as I described above, and thats about it. Almost none of these games had any kind of save feature, and Maximum Carnage is one of these games, and it is a painstakingly long game to finish and does offer some high difficulty. Maximum Carnage's few saving graces are the game's music provided by Green Jelly (although it sounds a bit generic at times considering the Genesis didn't have the best soundchip imaginable) and the fluid and colorful graphics. There are a few guest appearances from other heroes (Firestar, Captain America) and you've got some tough villians in Carnage, Shreik, Doppleganger, and Demogoblin, but other than that Maximum Carnage is only a bit better than the heap of comic licensed 16-bit beat 'em ups.

When you look at the painstakingly long list of comic licensed games that were released for the 16-bit systems of years ago, most were basically just walk from left to right while beating up countless generic villians in a game which lacks any kind of spirit or feel of the comic it is based from and is pretty much Streets of Rage with a comic license attached to it (notably most of which were published by Acclaim or one of their other publishing divisions). Maximum Carnage is based on the mid-nineties massive event that took place in the Spider-Man comics in which Spidey had to team up with Venom to take on Carnage in a ravaged New York. In the game, you can play as Spidey or Venom, and you pretty much do all as I described above, and thats about it. Almost none of these games had any kind of save feature, and Maximum Carnage is one of these games, and it is a painstakingly long game to finish and does offer some high difficulty. Maximum Carnage's few saving graces are the game's music provided by Green Jelly (although it sounds a bit generic at times considering the Genesis didn't have the best soundchip imaginable) and the fluid and colorful graphics. There are a few guest appearances from other heroes (Firestar, Captain America) and you've got some tough villians in Carnage, Shreik, Doppleganger, and Demogoblin, but other than that Maximum Carnage is only a bit better than the heap of comic licensed 16-bit beat 'em ups.

I got this game at early Augest and all I can say is... SWEEEETTTTT!!!!
I don't care if the Super Nintendo version has better sound and graphes this game blows the Super Nintendo version out the water!! And when your done with this game play the sequel Separation Anxiety but thats a different story. Buy this game!!

This is a good game which I still find fun to play. The only problem with it is that too many of these "beat people up while you are walking down the street" games exist. I think this is one of the best games in it's class. It just came out so late that people had already played too many games like it already.

This is the best spider-man video game came across on sega genesis ever !
On some levels you get to play venom. The graphics are amazing in this 16 bit game.
Better yet the music of Green Jelly is in this game playing Carnage Rules.
If your into old school games get this one & fun to play.

amazing. theres all sorts of combo move. you can jump on walls, form a web shield, slam people into each other, do a spinning kick, etc., etc., etc.
the story line is cool and amazing. the gameplay is fun and addictive. and its super challenging. honestly, I dont like hard games, but I love this game. it had me smiling even as bosses beat me up

THIS SEGA GENESIS GAME REMINDS ME OF A VIDEOGAME I PLAYED MANY YEARS AGO ITS CALLED FINAL FIGHT WHICH IS LIKE A BEAT EM UP TYPE OF GAME I ENJOY IT ALOT IN SOME STAGES YOU CAN PLAY AS SPIDERMAN OR VENOM THE GRAPHICS ARE ALSO QUITE IMPRESSIVW ONE OTHER THING I MUST ADD THAT YOU CAN CALL ON OTHER SUPERHEROES BY COLLECTING A CERTAIN ICON IT CAN BE USED TO DEFEAT THE VILLIANS