Centipede
Enter the world of the Wee People and do your best to save them from the QueenPede, who will stop at nothing to destroy this peaceful race of humanoids. In this remake of the classic Atari game, players take…
Centipede is an adventure developed by Leaping Lizard, released 23 October 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Dreamcast and PlayStation.
What Centipede is
Centipede is an adventure game developed by Leaping Lizard and released in 1998. It was published by Atari Europe. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story tells of a group of villages, Weedom, all living in harmony with one another and nature. However, according to the legend, every hundred years a group of "armored beasts" emerge from "the dark core of the earth" to serve their master, the Queen Pede, and aid her in the destruction of the Wee people. Every time this happens a magic stick is employed to find a hero to defend them. Every time the insects are defeated, the villagers believe that the threat has permanently ended; but they always return, as the legend indicates. The player plays as Wally, the chosen hero to fight the insects that century, who is to take control of the shooter, a vehicle made for, as its name indicates…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Centipede series
Centipede is the 23rd of 36 entries we hold in the Centipede series. It arrived 9 months after Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 2. The next entry was Centipede in 1998. Its critic score of 80 is 12 points above the series average of 68. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Centipede holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Centipede launched on 23 October 1998, within three weeks of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and The House of the Dead 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 3.
Released around the same time: Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, The House of the Dead 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Centipede yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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