There are some exceptions like the forest level, where everything is an obnoxious, unnaturally bright green and brown, but again the level of detail is still lacking and the palette is an eyesore.Īnother massive, and logically perplexing downgrade is the presentation of character sprites. In fact the entire game palette is very dull, with Spider-Man’s high contrast costume seeming very out of place anywhere you go. While the streets of New York looked gritty and distressed in Maximum Carnage, they look sterile and boring in Separation Anxiety. It came out in 1995, and if anything it is visually comparable to Game Gear titles released that year… The levels are plain with very little detail. Graphically it would be below standard if it was released in 1991.

There is no nice way to put it, no positive light in which to view it visually the game looks like crap. The graphics are not good, plain and simple.

This includes graphics, sprites, animations, cut scenes, music, in-game detail, level design, and gameplay. In fact, it almost feels like the creators made a checklist of all the things that Maximum Carnage did well and made a conscious effort to carefully downgrade each point. Separation Anxiety looks embarrassingly bad when compared to the previous Spider-Man and Venom release: Maximum Carnage.

Sadly, this was not the case with Separation Anxiety, which took the fast track to failure. Usually though they at least have the decency to wait until the fourth installment before becoming unbearable, giving the audience a wide range of increasingly bad titles to become desensitized to until the impending downfall of the franchise. Genre: Beat-‘Em-Up Developer: Software Creations Publisher: Acclaim Players: 1-2 Released: 1995Īt some point in life everyone has experienced the unfortunate phenomenon of sequels turning out worse than the original, often to the point of being not just bad, but downright insulting to the beloved predecessor.

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