While many parts of it are dated now, it still stands as a benchmark for the industry and the game that would define the character going forward. No more levels, just one big New York City to swing around as you stop petty crimes and the familiar faces of Spidey’s rogue’s gallery. However, just four years later, that game became an outdated relic of the past with the release of Spider-Man 2.īased on the best of the Tobey Maguire-era films, Spider-Man 2 was the first game to take Peter Parker and put him in an open world. Its first outing with the webhead, 2000’s Spider-Man for the PlayStation, was arguably the best Spider-Man game made to that point. Before it devoted itself entirely to Call of Duty, Activision could be depended on for some fun Spider-Man games at the turn of the millennium. The best thing to happen to Spider-Man in the ’90s was Activision taking the license from Acclaim and LJN. The best thing to happen to Spider-Man in the 2010s was Activision losing the license. Initially dismissed as yet “another” Spider-Man beat ’em up, time has been kind to Maximum Carnage and it’s now considered one of the better Spider-Man games of the era, along with the arcade-exclusive Spider-Man: The Video Game. Maximum Carnage featured cutscenes pulled straight from the pages of the comic and a solid red cartridge if you were lucky enough to get a first-run print. As an adaptation of the wildly successful “Maximum Carnage” comic book storyline, the game gave players the ability to choose between playing as Spider-Man or Venom as they attempted to stop Carnage and his minions. Maximum Carnage might be the lone exception. Both companies were pretty notorious for their terrible games, but shockingly, a decent game managed to find its way to store shelves in the form of Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage.īeat’em ups were a dime a dozen in the ’90s and Spider-Man starred in his fair share of stinkers on the SNES and Genesis. Marvel didn’t always care about putting out quality products with its top comic stars and there is no better proof than the fact two of the first licensors of the character were LJN and Acclaim. So here’s the thing with a lot of Spider-Man games: plenty of them are mediocre. Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage (1994)
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