Dreamcast

Spawn: In the Demon's Hand

With a whopping 36 characters, most of which are hidden, Spawn gives plenty of reason why you should play it extensively. Yet when the game drives you nuts to begin with, I wouldn’t recommend extended play as the best course of action. If you want a game that you can play for 15 minutes and put down feeling satisfied, then this dark-sider may hold some interest for you. I for one will keep my feet out of hell until the day I die.

The mass mayhem and multitude of characters in Spawn may have made it an attractive quarter muncher in the arcades, but I personally couldn’t care less for this absurd game. The camera is so out of control that you can’t even see your enemies half the time whether you know they are there or not. Furthermore, if you don’t kill with one rapid bout of attacks, your enemy will fall down and then become temporarily invincible for enough time to do you in for a free kill. This forces you to frequently punch and then run for your life from an opponent that you just wiped out. The level of chaos and instantaneous death is fairly entertaining for a little while, but getting nailed by opponents you couldn’t see or target because the camera was weaving like a drunken sailor becomes exponentially more irritating as the game progresses. Spawn’s rightful place is with his master.

But even with a rather impressive line up of characters, Spawn fails to impress on a game play level. The game is far too repetitive, hard to play, and too dull to even express in words. It's not the worst fighter on the market, but if it comes up between this and Power Stone 2 ... I think you're choice is clear!

Les autres modes de jeu ne suffisent pas non plus à rehausser la durée de vie et l'intérêt global du jeu. La Bataille Royale propose un combat à quatre dans une arène, mais l'écran est malheureusement splitté en quatre à moins de jouer seul contre le CPU, contrairement à la version japonaise qui disposait d'un mode de jeu online. Les fans de Spawn qui se jetteront sur ce titre pour son rendu graphique risquent donc d'être terriblement déçus par son intérêt limité et sa courte durée de vie.

Een erg middelmatige game waar alleen de grootste Spawn fans wat euro' s voor over hebben.