

2011 · WayForward Technologies · Light gun shooter · Platformer
Centipede Infestation
Nintendo exclusive
Centipede: Infestation is a video game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Atari, SA for the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo 3DS. It is a re-imagining of the Centipede video game franchise.
- Released
- 25 October 2011
- Platforms
- WiiNintendo 3DS
- Genres
- Light gun shooterPlatformerPost-apocalypticShooter
- Developers
- WayForward Technologies
- Publishers
- Atari SAAtari, Inc.
- Modes
- MultiplayerSingle-playerCo-op
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Country
- United States
- Age ratings
- ESRB E10+
- Languages
- English, French, Spanish
- Composers
- Jake Kaufman
About
Centipede: Infestation is a run and gun video game developed by WayForward Technologies and published by Atari, Inc. for the Wii and Nintendo 3DS. It is a re-imagining of the Centipede video game franchise. The game was also going to be released in Europe and was even rated by PEGI but it was canceled.
Keywords
- insects
- run and gun
- giant insects
- floating blocks
- spider
- centipede
- animal antagonist
- titular antagonist
- play coin support
- streetpass support
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Gameplay
Centipede: Infestation is set in a post-apocalyptic world, and is played from a top-down perspective. Gameplay is a mix between run-and-gun action and tower defense. The player's goal is to fight off giant bugs while seeking to use special seeds to bring plant life back to the world. Players control a character named Max as well as a secondary character named Maisy who possesses a collection of special needs.
She is often in need of rescue. The game has co-op gameplay and a wide variety of weapons and stages. The co-op part of the game features a selection of characters to choose from and it is much easier to get through the game with a friend.
Story
In a post-apocalyptic world where most of the Earth has been turned into desert wasteland inhabited by giant mutated bugs and humanity has been reduced to small cities and colonies due to the explosion of a bomb, a young man who calls himself Max the Bug Slayer wanders the wasteland constantly fighting and shooting the bugs for fun, until one day he stumbles across a garden being taken care by a young woman named Maisy Chambers. Max offers himself to follow and protect Maisy until they get to her home, and thus they start travelling together across a series of environments such as a desert, an abandoned city, a swamp and various caves, all taken over by giant bugs. Meanwhile, they start to reveal a bit of their past to each other: Max lived with his father and brother until the bomb dropped and both died, leaving him alone in the wasteland; Maisy and her mother had a gardening business together, until her mother disappeared while looking for soils in the wasteland, also leaving Maisy alone.
While in the caves, they find a locket that belonged to Maisy's mother, next to the lair of an Alpha Centipede, who Max calls Soot. Max explains he found Soot when it was small, and it was his best, and only, friend, until Soot grew larger and more aggressive, forcing Max to leave it behind in fear of getting himself hurt. Maisy says that the locket had a picture of herself in it but it has been taken out, so they go to Soot's cave in search of her mother and Max and Soot go into battle. Soot then tries to attack Maisy, and Max is sadly forced to shoot and kill it. Not having found her mother, Max and Maisy then embrace together as the soil grows grass and flowers from the nutrients in Soot's blood.
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update
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Collections4 collections
Platform libraries
- Wii gamesGames
Publishers
- Atari games (2001–present)2010s › 2011
- Nintendo 3DS games (0–M)Games
Genres
- Light-gun gamesNintendo › Wii
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