Creature Shock
The earth is overpopulated and mankind must find a second home. The spaceship Amazon is sent to investigate Saturn and Jupiter for possible colonization. Near the end of its mission, all contact is lost with…
Creature Shock is an arcade developed by Argonaut Games, released 1 December 1994 on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and DOS.
What Creature Shock is
Creature Shock is an arcade game developed by Argonaut Games and released in 1994. It was published by Data East. It is available on 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS and Philips CD-i.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In 2123, the UNS Amazon is sent as part of an exploration fleet to various planets to determine new viable locations for settlement as the Earth is destroyed by human activity. En route to Saturn, the Amazon is ensnared by a massive alien being resembling a large asteroid. The protagonist, Commander Jason Barr, is sent to investigate the incident.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Creature Shock holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1994 averaged 72, so it scored 52 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Creature Shock launched on 1 December 1994, within three weeks of Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Breath of Fire II and King's Field. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Donkey Kong Country, Tekken, Breath of Fire II, King's Field.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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