The game seems to have been balanced for two players, featuring more aggressive opponents that are constantly maneuvering to get behind you and giving you only three lives and no credits to start with. It might all be too much if it weren’t for the password system allowing you to tackle it in two or three sessions. The pacing is a lot worse as levels are generally longer and you face wave after wave of the same few enemy types. As you progress through the levels, you begin to encounter a few new enemy types and leave the city for a jungle, an underground city and some futuristic base sections. The title screen theme is about the only piece that stands out thanks to its vocal samples and sense of urgency, particularly on the SNES. The rock soundtrack has been replaced with generic electronic music once again, it sounds pretty different depending on the version, with the Genesis spoiling its tighter arrangements with the occasional ear-piercing sounds. The sprites are oddly drawn and the goofy animations reminiscent of their earlier beat’-em-up The Tick. In an effort to differentiate the game from its prequel, Software Creations went for a different look, and the results are dubious at best. This all explained in text-only cutscenes – no panels from the comics this time.īecause in other ways, Separation Anxiety is two steps backward. They will also face constant attacks from The Jury, a private militia set up by a wealthy man with a grudge against Venom. After managing to escape, Venom turns to Spider-Man for help, knowing he’ll need his support in order to take on the Life Foundation and destroy the five Symbiotes born from the experiments. They have built an underground city for their super-rich customers in the event of nuclear warfare and mean to reproduce Venom’s Symbiote in order to form a force to protect it. Sometime after Maximum Carnage, Venom gets kidnapped by a secret organization known as the Life Foundation. The storyline, however, is not an adaptation of the mini-series but rather a mishmash of elements from various story arcs. While he started as a villain, Venom’s popularity lead to his transformation into an anti-hero with multiple mini-series to his name, including the titular Separation Anxiety, which explains why he gets first billing this time around.

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