Deadly Creatures is an adventure developed by Rainbow Studios, released 9 February 2009 on Wii.
What Deadly Creatures is
Deadly Creatures is an adventure game developed by Rainbow Studios and released in 2009. It was published by THQ. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Deadly Creatures allows players to play as a young male desert hairy scorpion and an adult female tarantula and engage in brutal combat against other arachnids, insects, rats, and reptiles. The two creatures have different playing styles, with the scorpion's levels featuring more action-oriented gameplay, while the tarantula is more stealth oriented, with less linear levels. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk are used for both movement and attacks, with motion controls incorporated for special attacks and finishing moves, while the tarantula also utilizes the pointer function to shoot webs. New abilities are also gained as the player progresses through the game. Along with dispatching common…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, stealth and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Deadly Creatures holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Deadly Creatures launched on 9 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Official trailer
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