This separate playing field acts as a means to tell Carnage’s origin story, and does so in a subtle way. Spelling out “Carnage” will cause the table to switch focus to an entirely different playing field in which you’ll have four tries to hit letter targets that spell out the words “Prison Break”. The ramps to the right of the table, which sport the railroad track theme curves around through a wire frame pinball tunnel that loops around to the left lower side of the table, and drops off to a ball capture that acts to spell out the word “Carnage”. At the bottom the main focus is on Carnage, and his 3D prison enclosure as well as the “Black Suit” spelling targets (Multi-ball) that separate the top playing field from the bottom. In fact the table is divided into an upper, and lower playing field. As with other Zen Pinball 2 tables this one does also features multiple playing areas. The table itself is a mixture of various city structures including a series of four side-by-side ramps (two on each side) with railroad tracks, and skateboard ramp themes. When it comes to the table design you’ll find that Spider-man himself takes front, and center as the featured art subject leaving the 3D models at the top, and bottom of the table to reflect the Venom, and Carnage inclusion. One could understand that though, because of the ridiculous amount of content that the table would have to include to be “All Inclusive”. While this latest table does touch base on a lot of the Venom tales, and tie-ins it still does not include it all. Of course later on, and through many comic book issues, and series the alien symbiote chose to take on different hosts with different physical results, and even spawned some offspring of it’s own at one point. Having had prior issues with Peter Parker (aka, Spider-man) Eddie Brock, and his now split symbiotic personality sought to destroy the web slinging superhero, and rid himself of the threat. For those of you who don’t know of Venom’s origin story it began with a man named Eddie Brock, and his chance encounter with an alien symbiote that had ultimately adhered to him in a parasitic fashion. Even Spider-man got his debut appearance on the table. Aside from my disappointment though I think Zen Studios did a stand up job in relaying the comic book stories associated with Venom, and all the other symbiotic spin-offs. I had honestly expected something more venom-like in it’s stead, perhaps with a black & white theme, but it just did not end up that way. Zen Studios could have gone so many different routes with the design of this table, but in the end they chose the table itself to feature locales from the venom symbiote lore as it’s core playing elements, and placed the main character role players in said settings.
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