| Spider:The Video Game | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Boss Game Studios |
| Publisher(s) | BMG Interactive |
| Year released | 1997 |
| System(s) | Playstation |
| Genre(s) | Platform |
|---|---|
| Modes | Single player |
Spider: The Video Game is a platform video game developed by Boss Game Studios and published by BMG Interactive for Playstation. It was relased in North America in February 1997 and in Europe in April of the same year. The player takes the role of a cybernetic spider that has been implanted with the mind of the scientist who created it.
Spider: The Video Game is a standard 2.5D platformer, with three-dimensional backgrounds, but 2D gameplay. The area of gameplay is in fact as a two-dimensional surface twisting and bending in a three-dimensional world, with occasional forks where you can choose your route, along the lines of Pandemonium! and other platform games of this time.
The game is divided into different levels to be played in succession. The player must travel to the end of each level using the typical mechanics of platform games but also the natural abilities of a spider, such as climbing walls and ceilings and using silk to duck, in order to overcome certain obstacles. Obstacles include laboratory sinks, acid, test tubes and most importantly other cybernetic creatures as enemies. It is also possible to find and equip some weapons to proceed more easily.
Plot[edit]
Year 2018. Dr. Michael Kelly, nanotechnology's most brilliant and innovative research scientist is developing a cybernetic spider, equipped with artificial intelligence and micro weapons implanted in its legs. After some failed experiments, to transfer data into the arachnoid's body and make it autonomous, the scientist successfully uses a neural transmitter, connected to his own brain. Just as he is finishing the experiment, however, some MicroTech intruders break into his laboratory and shoot him, destroying the laboratory and taking away his dying body. However, the neural transmitter is still attached to Michael Kelly's head, and he is thus able to control the spider with his brain. The scientist, in his spider form, is determined to chase the attackers and try to save himself. During the attack on the laboratory, however, a case full of cybernetic insects was destroyed, releasing several other insects into the environment that will make his mission even more difficult.