Claw is a fun but little-known side-scrolling 2D platformer game from Monolith. The Adrenaline Vault's detailed review explains why action fans should take a look:
4.64 / 5 - 164 votes
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'Based roughly during the 15th century, Claw takes us to an almost parallel earth where the known world is ruled by the Cocker Spaniard Kingdom. However, instead of playing a human, cyborg, or mushroom like in other popular side-scrolling adventures, you get to play a part in one of the classic rivalries -- cats against dogs!
Oct 16, 2016 File description: Claw, also known as Captain Claw, is a cartoon-style 2D side-scrolling platformer created by Monolith Productions and released in 1997. Demos, MMO Clients and Full Games Download for PC and Mac.
Your role in this monumental adventure is that of Captain Nathaniel J. Claw, a feline pirate of the seven seas, infamous to all. The King, tired of your exploits, has put a rich bounty on your head of one million gold pieces, dead or alive. The game begins as you attempt escape from your Spanish prison and your search for the gems that power the Nine Lives Amulet, which is reputed to grant immortality to the owner.
Claw is filled with 14 huge levels to play through, with each level progressing you further towards escape and the Nine Lives Amulet. So how big is huge? Well, the first three levels will probably take you twenty minutes each, but once you hit level four, The Dark Woods, expect to spend at least an hour or more. Each level is unique and draws you far deeper into the story than you would ever expect a side-scroller to accomplish, but Claw does so easily. As an example, once you escape from La Roca prison, you fight your way through the Battlements to a showdown with your captor. Once slaying him, which is no easy feat, you escape to the Footpath and then The Dark Woods. As you reach certain points in the game, you'll see animated cutscenes which relate more of the storyline to you. These cutscenes are professionally animated movies when it comes right down to it and their depth rivals some Disney movies I've seen.
One thing I really noticed about Claw was how fluid the animation is throughout the game. Each character and background looks as though it was 'painted' onto the screen. Imagine playing a cool 3D cartoon and you've come fairly close to what Claw is like. The maps contain that cartoon depth, with some of the background extending forward to conceal areas of the map. Plus, each character is drawn with such detail that you could just watch them for a couple of minutes and be entertained by it.
Of course, true to side-scroller style, there are objects to be picked up throughout the game, plus warps to secret levels. The main item you'll pick up, either floating in mid-air or dropped when you slay some enemy is gold. Gold, as you might expect, adds to your point total during the game and how much your score goes up depends on the type of treasure you receive. The most common item is the gold coin, followed by items such as scepters, amulets, and even crowns. There are also special weapons you can pick up like the fire sword, which sends a burst of flaming death across the screen torching all the creatures in its path and special items like invisibility and invulnerability.
Whereas with most games you can only play with eight other people, Claw supports 64 players at the same time when on a LAN or online network! The network play has several cool features as well which include: level racing -- for the best time or score across a level, marathon level racing -- which is similar to level racing but the race can span multiple levels, the ability to use custom maps, and the ability to upload your high score to the Claw website for instant ranking with other players.
Perhaps the only downside to Claw's multiplayer support is that the game was designed to be used exclusively with Engage, which on first glance might make you think this excludes most of the people out there. However, since the game also supports LAN (IPX) games, you will probably be able to play on any online service that supports the IPX protocol for games.
Claw gets a 5 star rating and with good reason, this game is intense and more fun to play than most of the games that have come across my desk in quite some time. Monolith doesn't fail to impress with Claw and are certainly becoming more impressive as a whole than many companies are already. Kudos also have to go out to Takrajimasha, Inc. who helped in Claw's creation by helping to produce such a top-notch game.
All this praise isn't to say Claw is perfect, the game has some annoying 'flaws.' For instance, I felt the game had too few save game locations in it. Claw, like most side-scrollers, will let you continue from locations when you pass a flag on the way should you die and have another life. However, Claw only contains two actual save game locations in each level, so if you die completely, you usually end up having to fight through a hideous amount of territory to get back to where you were before.
In addition, the game doesn't offer up as many extra lives as most games do, and finding extra magic ammo is rare. These few 'flaws' in Claw are enough to make the game incredibly difficult but overall, still addictingly fun to play.'
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Largest fansite: The Claw Rescue, don't miss the downloads section.
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Comments and reviews
glen2020-06-082 points
why does the game play slow?
Akshay Kalson2020-05-310 point
your website is soo neat . Beautiful work , and great collection . thanks a lot
nostalgia man2020-05-26-1 point
ahhhhhh the good old memories claawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww works out of the box thanks mate
zora2020-04-210 point
you guys doing great
anantha2020-02-181 point
I got only stage in game
insert nickname here2020-01-290 point
i love the game. it was my childhood game but i cant run it
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Henry Pellinger2020-01-201 point
Man, I remember always going to my local Library and playing this game. I loved it so much but I could never beat it. Too bad some kid stole the game :( Glad I found it here though, I just typed in the search bar,'Side scrolling game where you play as a cat in a pirate outfit,' Lo and behold here it is. Thank you!!!
@Young Chris2019-08-300 point
I have followed this game since I was a kid and I love it.
Hoping to get the other version
sawzi2019-08-18-1 point
captain claw runs very slow can't play the game
This is the full version with movies?
habeeb2019-07-071 point
this game is the best and the game played in my family was from 1899
Alcatraz2019-04-050 point
Amazing game
erikperin2019-02-020 point
I played this game a lot.
Z@n32018-12-190 point
Mac os x installer download. Holy scrap this was my childhood game!!!!
mercules2018-11-18-7 points
i miss this sm.i am a gamer
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Djwacko2018-08-221 point
It's NO ISO!! it's a Nero image .mdf and .mds files
Shehab2018-08-121 point
Good job
Chotu2018-08-050 point
It is nice game
hazardinho2018-07-09-1 point
thank u very much
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Daniel2018-05-082 points
I had difficulty mounting the ISO, I found that the disk it was copied from had a sector size of 2352 bytes, rather than the standard 2048 bytes.
I'm not sure whether this approach I'm about to explain loses data, but I found that by copying the 2048 bytes that follow after 24 bytes from each sector, produces a file that can be mounted. Here is the (crude) program I wrote in C, in order to accomplish this: http://codepad.org/7lBixSQl Hope this is helpful to someone, took me a while to figure it out!
ChubbPanda2017-07-22-3 points
Anyone have a problem with the game freezing after 4-5 minutes?
Runs smoothly with 'legacy mode' and the. rollback to windows 95 function. But after 4-5 minutes the game just freezes, sound keeps rolling, sounds like the entire game is rolling, enemies walking and discovering you etc. but picture stuck?
HERCULEANTHOR2017-06-12-1 point
As one of the few who could ever beat 'SPACE ACE' the spin-off from 'DRAGON'S LAIR', you can bet I spent many a tween year in the old-school arcade locations. Many of those stand-up console machines were side-scrollers including little known gems like 'MOON PATROL', 'RASTAN' or 'GOLD MINE'. 'CLAW' leaves all those behind and hits it so out of the park as to SHOOT THE MOON.
Phillipo242017-06-031 point
For anyone looking for additional information or help with this game, head to http://kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/
bella2017-04-201 point
which one should i download to play the full game? ISO,RIP or patch1.3?
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Wineskin Winery- http://wineskin.urgesoftware.com/tiki-index.php?page=Downloads
Unarchiver (mac unzipper This is a mac version of winrar,7zip)- go on mac app store for the unarchiver its free download it this is the thing u will be using to extract files at some point. claw cd rip - http://www.kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/downloads.html
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(Note this video uses a out dated version of Wineskin so follow the 2nd video if it helps also this video may have taken different steps so it will help you understand if you main language is Portuguese but if not then just follow the 2nd one. Also all credit for discovering this goes to REBORN1000X for finding this out originally all I just did was make a more updated version with little changes that did take a bit to figure out)
Main video ▼
Written steps
After getting the downloads Part 1: Getting the game to launch - Open Wineskin Winery install the latest updates and hit the update button Click 'Create New Black Wrapper' - In the wrapper name field type 'incertnamehere' (without commas), This should make a Wineskin app with the name u put for the game. - After making the game app go into launch pad and open the app u just named from there. -Click “Install Software” then Click “Chose Setup Executable” - Find the “Setup.exe” - Install the game - Click on 'OK' There going to be a few things popping up asking to install an install them both they are just thing need to be install by the setup to run the game.
Part 2: Before hitting install steps
-Hit no on desktop shortcut that pops up. The reason is this shortcut the installer for claw give as an option is a windows version of the desktop shortcut for the claw.exe so that version will never launch right if you try to launch it only the wineskin claw app you made is where you can launch it from. If you would like to copy the claw app just copy it over from the “Finder” to the desktop. Also if you were gonna make a copy of the claw app just do it at the very end.
-2 boxes to be checked first one asking to get a read me version of the game second one asking to launch right away. Leave them both uncheck
- Now before u click open when game installed leave that part unchecked because theres one more step
-This PART IS THE MOST IMPORTANT because if you select the wrong thing the game will not end up even launch right. This the part where after you hit install an 'choose executable' should pop up where its says 'Please select which executable file is normally used in windows to start this program' I recommend you go to the video i linked second an got to the time stamp at 7:36 and watch to understand what to do better and not get confused. - At this point there should be 3 options but only one is right or your game will not launch if you select the wrong one to install. I am not sure if they could be in different order for you but if it is then follow the video to get a better understanding Do not select the 1 that say /installshield installation information (There should be a bunch of codes ) - The one that has claw.exc at the end of its name is the right now should work once you select it (If your game didn't launch at this part that means you select the wrong one and you need to go back and start over at the part where you 'Create New Blank Wrapper') -After that close Wineskin an go to launchpad where you should see the claw game on a Wineskin logo an launch the game
Part 3: After installing
-(grey screen part) This is where it gets hard I had a grey screen pop up that could happen to you to or not but click on bottom right of that grey screen. -Other than that grey screen once you hit the bottom right it which you can see but it would be there if it was not glitch it should take you to the next page where its fine asking for the claw registration key which is in the CLAW CD RIP folder (it becomes a folder once you unzip it or which you do by opening). If you are having trouble unzipping it heres is the code [ 839E794F-6A30-4056-92C0-42B5240C252B ] - Once you put the code in and gotten past other pages asking to accept shit you should end up at the last page -You're Done now
Made a list of problems with solutions steps that may occurred. Note that more maybe added to the list over time.
Im just gonna number down the problems that may have problems occurred to you with the solutions. If you still having trouble after trying all these’s steps could u screenshot the error/problem that comes up upload it to imgur.com[Imgur is an online image sharing site] an reply back with an image link of you problem so I can have a better understanding of whats wrong.
I think you may have messed up at 7:36 so go back
and watch to understand what to do better and this is normal mess up it even happen to me when I was trying to make this video. - At this point there should be 3 options but only one is right or your game will not launch if you select the wrong one to install. I am not sure if they could be in different order for you but if it is then follow the video to get a better understanding Do not select the 1 that say /installshield installation information (There should be a bunch of codes ) - The one that has claw.exc at the end of its name is the right now should work once you select it (If your game didn't launch at this part that means you select the wrong one and you need to go back and start over at the part where you 'Create New Blank Wrapper’) -To delete the broken version of the Claw app u made just go in “Finder” search it an brag it over to trash and delete.
2. If you are getting [The Application 'Claw' Can't Be Opened] at 4:14 this is normal thing that happens just try to open the program again it will open then.
3. You game is not opening the game with the desktop shortcut at 5:58. The reason is this shortcut the installer for claw give as an option is a windows version of the desktop shortcut for the claw.exe so that version will never launch right if you try to launch it only the wineskin claw app you made is where you can launch it from. If you would like to copy the claw app just copy it over from the “Finder” to the desktop. Also if you were gonna make a copy of the claw app just do it at the very end.
4.If you typed the registration code wrong at 8:26 the game will not launch right or may even launch the demo version of the game. You would know it the demo because the game last only 60mins and it run at different speed then the version I played in the video.
5. If the demo version of claw is started and Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw is running an jumping faster than normal watch this video on the fix. Not sure how this happen or if its a glitch but I've made a short video on it and how to fix it.
Original raw video of Failed tutorial because game glitched gave demo version of claw : Zoomed in image that the code was typed right: http://imgur.com/a/YGyVK this game is and old game and could have this problem so just follow the same steps over to reinstall and this problem should be fixed just fine.(FYI you can't copy and paste it in the code it doesn't let u)
Virtual dj version iso download. 6.If none of these’s help at all to getting your game to launch as a last resort then you may have to use that different download of claw that I talk about in the start at 0:47 of the video. The download is the first one “Claw v1.4.3 ‘CrazyHook’ on http://www.kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/downloads.html follow the same steps that I took in the video with the Claw CD RIP with this download and everything should work fine.
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7.For the ones who get a error code here's another download u could try to get the game running that seem to be a fix if nothing else helps http://www.mediafire.com/file/mt8l1zdu793o8lu/Capitan+Claw%E2%84%A22+-++Its+about+time+v1.40.99.9.rar
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