Spider: The Video Game
In Spider: The Video Game you control a spider that has been implanted with a neural transmitter port, cybernetic legs, and weapon accessories. You begin at a sector map which functions as a blueprint of the…
Spider: The Video Game is a platform developed by Boss Game Studios, released 26 February 1997 on PlayStation.
What Spider: The Video Game is
Spider: The Video Game is a platform game developed by Boss Game Studios and released in 1997. It was published by BMG Interactive. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dr. Michael Kelly is inventing a device that can transfer minds into cybernetic insects. One night a nameless brain villain who is head of a company known as Micro Tech infiltrates his lab to steal the technology, During the invasion he gets shot and electrocuted and has his mind transferred inside the cybernetic spider also permanently attaching the head set device to his body. After getting unconscious the raiders take his body with them to detach the device by any means possible and you as the spider must journey through places such as Labs, Factories, The City, Museum, Sewer, to stop Micro Tech and get your body back.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Spider: The Video Game 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.
What it launched against
Spider: The Video Game launched on 26 February 1997, within three weeks of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, NBA ShootOut '97, Namco Museum Vol. 5 and Rally Cross. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, NBA ShootOut '97, Namco Museum Vol. 5, Rally Cross.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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