Venom takes on Demogoblin, while Spider-Man fights his way through waves of gang members to reach Carnage's ad hoc headquarters - a nightclub called "The Deep". Knowing defeat, Venom escapes with his life and plants his broken body on the doorstep of Peter Parker.Ĭarnage allows Demogoblin to begin his assault on Manhattan, and Spider-Man, understanding the gravity of the situation, takes an oath to align himself with Venom in order to stop Kasady's madness. A brutal battle wages between the three warriors, and Venom's might is admirable, but the combined power of the "family" proves greater than the resolve of the elder symbiote. Venom arrives in New York to confront Carnage, who is both surprised and quite pleased his symbiotic counterpart has come to join the chaos, but Carnage commits both Shriek and Doppelganger to stop Venom. Venom devotes himself to reaching New York before Carnage destroys more lives. His anger wells, and Venom imposes itself quickly over Brock's will. Content with the chaos he's created, Carnage leaves the church with his compatriots.Įddie Brock, the man carrying the "Venom" symbiote, sees the reports of Carnage's rampage in the newspaper the following morning. Having followed Spider-Man to his temporary resting place, Shriek and Doppelganger attack the trio of heroes, and though they fight valiantly, Carnage announces his presence with authority by stabbing Dagger. Cloak and Dagger intervene before a vicious gang step in with the killing stroke, and Cloak teleports Spider-Man to a nearby church. Spider-Man, seeing the effect Carnage's crusade is having on the thug community of New York, tries to stop the riots in the streets with a hands-on approach that, after a confrontation with Shriek and Doppelganger, nearly kills him. With their group assembled, the "family" begins a killing spree in New York, the likes of which have never been seen. Carnage meets Shriek, a woman with the ability to manipulate sound into concussive blasts, and they gather a "family" of villains - including Doppelganger (a six-armed Spider-Man look-alike whose mask is adorned with gruesome teeth and whose web is made of barbed wire), Demogoblin (a demon that bears likeness to the Hobgoblin), and Carrion (a man infected with a virus that grants him the ability to turn organic matter into ash). The Carnage symbiote emerges during the escort, and, after gaining control of Kasady, kills all of the guards in the complex. The game opens in Ravencroft Asylum, where Cletus Kasady - a maniacal killer who carries "Carnage", a spawn of the Venom symbiote - is being escorted to a cell. The story is told mainly by comic book style cutscenes between stages, that brings to the player the original comic art with some minor animations. There's no character upgrades nor is there any level progression. The gameplay involves a lot of button mashing for getting combos and sending the enemies to the void. For the majority of them, the player can move the character on a Z-Axis, as seen with classic games like Golden Axe or Final Fight. The game structure is divided by stages and each stage may be side or top-down scroller. In this brawler the player controls Spider-Man or Venom as they join forces against the psychopathic Carnage. Spider-Man and Venom: Maximum Carnage is the video game adaptation of the comic book arc of the same name.