Claw
Join forces with Captain Claw, the greatest cat pirate ever to challenge the Cocker Spaniard Armada! Embark on an epic quest to recover the lost gems of the Amulet of Nine Lives. Uncover hidden treasure…
Claw is a platform developed by Monolith Productions, released 5 September 1997 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Claw is
Claw is a platform game developed by Monolith Productions and released in 1997. It was published by Egmont Polska. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Windows Animation Package.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story is similar to many pirate films, games and other sources: a famous cat pirate, Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw, is imprisoned by the Cocker-Spaniards (a dog species, a pun on Cocker Spaniel) after they attack and sink his ship. In the prison cell, waiting for his execution, he finds a note and a map hidden in the wall, signed as Edward Tobin, in which he learns about the Amulet of Nine Lives—a mystical artifact that grants its wearer near-immortality. Breaking out of his cell, Claw sets out to collect all 9 gems of the amulet and retrieve it for himself. The game begins with Claw outside his cell. As he progresses through the prison, he eventually gets to the outer wall and escapes…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Claw holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 2,372 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Players rate it 68, 8 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Claw launched on 5 September 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007 and Resident Evil: Director's Cut. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007, Resident Evil: Director's Cut.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Claw yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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