Dear Insomniac, While I wasn’t there with you day one during the Disruptor and Spyro the Dragon days on the PSOne, I came to love your studio and games dearly in the PS2 era thanks to the fantastic Ratchet and Clank games. The first Ratchet game on the PS3, Future: Tools of Destruction as well as the launch title Resistance: Fall of Man were both system sellers…
Spider-Man was not a stranger to video games in the 90’s, having at least one video game on every console or handheld available at the time and even teaming up with another Marvel property, the X-Men. It wasn’t until 1994 with the release of Spider-Man/Venom: Maximum Carnage though that a game starring the character was truly great. Like the…
When it launched in the fall of 2000, Activision’s Spider-Man would eventually be playable on every platform on the market: PSOne, PS2 (via backwards compatability), N64, PC, DC and even the Game Boy Color. As the game goes, one of those games are not like the other, I’m of course referring to the Game Boy Color port…
Zen Studios has produced a plethora of pinball tables for their Zen Pinball platform using the Marvel license, with more recent entries including both the Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool, and now they’re turning their attention towards another Marvel character: The sometimes villain, sometimes anti-hero, Venom. Though the Venom character has evolved from his…
I was tagged in a Facebook post this morning and asked to list ten games as quickly as I can that stuck with me. Presently I’m not in a space in which to respond to that post, so instead I’m going to run with the idea and put my own special twist on it, so…
If you’ll recall from my review of this game on the SNES, I’m probably one of the few people in the world who took it easy on this game, despite knowing full well its myriad problems. Finishing this game, a feat I once thought impossible, is something that I will always look back fondly upon…
Carnage sucks. The end. No wait, come back, I’m not done, but at the same time I could probably sum up my opinion on the Spider-Man villain in those two short sentences. I don’t really get the excitement when it’s announced that an upcoming Venom movie from Sony may be titled Venom Carnage, what is…
In order to proper evaluate this game, I think it’s best to imagine yourself back in the early 90’s when this game came out: You’re an impressionable young kid who loves video games, comic books, cartoons, and you don’t have the luxury of the internet to provide you with up to date information on all…
Beat-em-ups as a genre are repetitive by nature: punch some guys, move right, punch some more guys, more than likely ride an elevator, fight a boss, rinse, repeat until games end. What helps alleviate some of the tedium is being able to bring along a friend for the ride. In the arcade, where the games…
Comic book video games come in a variety of categories: Some use the comic solely as their source material, even calling on comic writers for story input, (The “Arkham” series,) others take inspiration from animated series (Batman: Vengeance,) and then there’s those that exist in the world of a feature film (The Amazing Spider-Man 2.)…
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