Spider-Man and Venom: Separation Anxiety

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Venom Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety
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Developer(s) Software Creations
Publisher(s) Acclaim Entertainment
Platform(s) SNES, Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis, PC
Release date 1995
Genre(s) Beat 'em up
Mode(s) Single player, Cooperative

Venom Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety was a standard side-scrolling beat 'em up video game and sequel to Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage, released for Sega Mega Drive and Super NES and then ported to PC, in which one or two players could team up as Spider-Man and Venom to defeat the evil symbiote Carnage. The game boasts a large number of thugs that the player has to defeat: heavily armed Jury and Venom's symbiote children; bosses Scream, Phage, Riot, Lasher, Agony, and finally Carnage, who is the final boss of the game.

There is also cameo assistance from Captain America, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye, and Daredevil.

The game was met with less critical response by the gaming community, especially when compared to its predecessor.[citation needed]

Of particular note is that the title is misleading--the plot of the comic book series Venom: Separation Anxiety involves Venom's five symbiote spawn attempting to force Eddie (without his symbiote) to help them communicate with their own symbiotes. The events of the game more closely follow the events of Venom's first limited series, Venom: Lethal Protector.

  • Tagline: "Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow..."

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[edit] Characters

  • Venom-- The main protaganist of this adventure. As a symbiote, Venom is a combination of both human and alien organism. He has all of Spider-Man's generic abilities (web-swinging and wall-crawling), but unlike Spider-Man, his combat moves are primarily based on raw power. He also takes less damage per hit than Spider-Man.
  • Spider-Man-- The titular hero of the series, Spider-Man is weaker and faster than his teammate, Venom. As in the comic, he is able to punch, kick, swing from webs and cling to walls. In combat, his special moves are oriented toward agility and finesse rather than brute strength.
  • The Jury-- Unlike the Symbiotes, these level bosses are not superhuman; instead, they are extremely well-armed and well-equipped mercenaries. They appear singly and in pairs at the end of selected levels, and again together at the end of the game.
  • Symbiotes-- Like the Jury, these hybrid alien/human level bosses possess varied combat skills and attack either alone or in pairs until the end of the game.
  • Carnage-- Appears as the final boss.

[edit] Plot

The game's plot loosely follows Lethal Protector in the following ways:

  • Appearance of Spider-Man (in LP#1.)
  • Confronting the digger in San Francisco (as seen in LP#1.)
  • Discovering the underground city (as seen in LP#1.)
  • Appearance of The Jury (as seen in LP#2.)
  • Removal of five symbiote seeds to create five new symbiotes (as seen in LP#4.)
  • Spider-Man and Venom's escape from the Life Foundation (as seen in LP#4.)
  • Confronting the five symbiotes at the Life Foundation Headquarters (as seen in LP#5.)

[edit] Trivia

This title is commonly referred to on the internet as "Spider-Man & Venom: Separation Anxiety".

This has most likely become the accepted title on the internet due to such things as Cowering's ROM renaming GoodTools which wrongly mislabelled the title years ago, and thus spawned the present misinformation. Other potential causes would be due to other popular videogame sites, such as the popular GameFAQs, which also uses the same wrong name for the title.

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