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Claw is a 2Dside-scrollerplatform video game published by Monolith Productions in 1997 about an anthropomorphic pirate cat who sets on a quest to find an ancient amulet while fighting enemies and solving puzzles. It is Monolith's second release after Blood, which was released that same year in May.

Plot[edit]

As far as the gameplay is concerned, Captain Claw uses a basic 2D engine and a classic sidescrolling interface to render the captain's adventure, which means that the action's all about jumping over obstacles, defeating enemies and avoiding the numerous traps scattered around the levels. The full version of Claw, prepared specifically with Windows 7/8/10 in mind. Includes the CrazyHook update (brought to you by Zax37 and KubusPL) and dgVoodoo, which should fix framerate issues. Includes custom levels up to. Highly recommended: when in doubt, download this version.

A famous cat pirate, Captain Nathaniel Joseph Claw, is imprisoned by the Cocker-Spaniards (a dog species, a pun on Cocker Spaniel) after they attack and sink his ship. In the prison cell, waiting for his execution, he finds a note and a piece of a map hidden in the wall. The note tells of the Amulet of Nine Lives—a mystical artifact that grants its wearer near-immortality. Breaking out of his cell, Claw sets out to collect all 9 gems of the amulet and retrieve it for himself.

The game begins with Claw outside his cell. As he progresses through the prison, he eventually gets to the outer wall and escapes to the forest after defeating the warden, Le Rauxe. In the forest, he encounters a gang of thieves, headed by his former love interest, Katherine. He manages to defeat them and finds his way out of the forest, and into the nearby port town of El Puerto del Lobo, where he is hunted down by the magistrate, Wolvington, and the city guards. After running through the city, escaping the guards, and defeating Wolvington himself, the Captain stumbles into a bar and overhears a conversation between two of the crew of Captain Red Tail, a lion who is Claw's arch enemy. He learns that Red Tail is looking for the gems of the amulet as well, and that Red Tail's first mate, Gabriel, has one of them in his possession. He also hears that Red Tail might have more himself.

Claw quickly makes his way through the port and jumps on Red Tail's ship, where he defeats the seamen (Gabriel among them) and hides in the ship until it sets port near the Pirate's Cove. Claw goes through the rickety wooden structures of the pirate cove, defeating the pirates and their leader, Marrow, Claw's former friend. Claw descends into the caves, where he discovers his old crew, presumed dead after the attack on his ship. The crew informs Claw that they were given three gems by a merchant in the tavern, but were forced to give two of them to Red Tail; they managed to keep the third as Red Tail believed there were only two in their possession. The crew then reveals that Red Tail has set sail for Tiger Island, a legendary place most doubted even existed, including Claw. Claw takes the crew's gem as well as a piece of the map, which shows a path to Tiger Island through the labyrinth of underwater caverns. The crew offers to accompany him through the caves to Tiger Island, but Claw insists on going alone, telling his crew to acquire a ship and meet him there. The Captain takes the shortcut through the caverns, where he fights through a race of merpeople, who fight him in order to defend their king: a giant frog-like creature called Aquatis. Claw manages to defeat Aquatis with explosives.

Claw resurfaces to face Red Tail and his crew on Tiger Island. Claw manages to bring Red Tail down and acquire the final two gems, yet Red Tail escapes. Claw enters the Tiger Temple at the heart of the island to claim the amulet. There he fights the highly trained tiger guards, avoids the many death traps in the lava-filled temple, and defeats Omar, the captain of the tiger guard, who holds the final gem. Claw places the gems on a pedestal, causing the ghost of a princess to appear. She gives Claw the amulet, granting him 9 lives, after summarizing his adventure. Omar is sworn to defend to the holder of the Amulet, thus becoming Claw's bodyguard. The game end with Claw on his ship with the amulet, alongside his crew and Omar.

Gameplay[edit]

Captain Claw For Mac

Captain Claw is a 2-D sidescrolling platformer, with simple melee combat. The objective for Claw is to reach the end of each level, fighting through various enemies and obstacles along the way. Claw's main weapon is his sword, though he can also punch or kick when close enough to an enemy. Claw also has a pistol, dynamite and a spell called 'Magic Claw.' These items are limited-use, and the player can refill these by collecting spare bullets, dynamite sticks and magic in levels. Also scattered throughout levels are health items, power-ups, and treasure, the last of which awards points. Many hidden or more treacherous areas contain high-value loot, power-ups and bonus lives. Some of these areas are only accessible with a high jump from a power-up, while others are only accessible through portals. Bonus lives are also awarded for reaching certain milestones in total points. In single player, each level has two save points in addition to the game saving at each level's completion.

Captain Claw has three types of gameplay modes: single player, custom levels, and multiplayer. The single player mode contains the main storyline.

At the end of each level the player will either collect a piece of the map or defeat a boss to receive a gem from the Amulet; odd-numbered levels have map pieces, while even-numbered levels have boss fights and gems. The exception is level 13, which has a boss fight and rewards the player with two gems. Receiving gems also triggers a cutscene.

The custom level loader allows the player to run custom content made by the player or others, but does not provide a method for editing levels in-game. The multiplayer mode allows the player to connect to the Internet and play with up to 64 other people. In the multiplayer mode, the player has to kill as many enemies as possible and gain loot for points to rank up. It also allows for players to race each other to finish a level as quickly as possible.

Development[edit]

Monolith Productions CEO Jason Hall intended Claw to be an entertaining and family-friendly game, saying that non-violent games were rare to find in the contemporary gaming market.^[2]

Claw was one of the first games to utilize an online multiplayer gaming network jointly created by Microsoft and the National Amusement Network, Inc. (NANI) and, according to GamePro, was originally supposed to feature 16 levels and support 256 players through the NANI network.^[3]

A special DVD edition of the game was released. The release contained extra content, such as fully animated cutscenes, and more detailed graphics. It was also included in the Creative PC DVD Encore Dxr2 set.^[4][5]

Reception[edit]

Claw received mixed-to-positive reviews. Allgame gave Claw a highly positive review, comparing its enjoyment value to the Super Mario and Crash Bandicoot franchises.^[6]GameSpot gave Claw a score of 7.7, stating that it is 'easily the finest modern side scroller available for the PC'.^[7] Colin Williamson of PC Gamer praised the graphics and 64-player mode, but criticized the game for being too similar to other side-scrollers.^[8] Craig Majaski of WorldVillage praised the game and gave it a score of 4/5.^[9]Gamasutra's Daniel Bernstein cited the game's use of sound as an example of immersive environments in gaming.^[10]PC Powerplay gave the game a mixed score of 62%; reviewer David Wildgoose criticized Monolith's decision to release a 2D platformer in the late 1990s, mentioning the contemporary release of 3D games such as Super Mario 64 and Tomb Raider, and concluded that Claw 'might have been an excellent 3D platformer'.^[11] Despite its success, the game is known for its high difficulty. It is considered a cult classic for its unique style, sense of adventure and beautiful graphics.^[12]

In a retrospective positive review, Anthony Burch of Destructoid wrote that Claw is 'accessible' and 'fun', but cited the game's high difficulty.^[13]

Legacy[edit]

Around 1999, work on a sequel to Captain Claw called 'Captain Claw 2 in 3D' was in development by Monolith using the first incarnation of LithTech.^[14] However, due to copyright issues with the character Captain Claw, Monolith dropped the project, and passed all codes and assets of the unreleased sequel to a Polish game developer called Techland.Techland announced that a sequel to Captain Claw was going to be released in November 2007 under the name of Captain Claw 2.^[15] The release date was delayed to 2008, however the game was renamed to Jack, the Pirate Cat. The game was later renamed to Nikita: The Mystery of the Hidden Treasure and a trailer was released on YouTube. The game was released later that year and became a stand-alone game that had nothing to do with the original game.^[15]The engine for Claw, internally known as the Windows Animation Package 32 (after the original 16 bit Windows Animation Package first written by Brian Goble for his shareware game The Adventures of Microman), was also used by Monolith in Get Medieval and Gruntz.

References[edit]

1. ^Staff (September 5, 1997). 'News Briefs'. PC Gamer. Archived from the original on February 18, 1998. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
   '...Monolith's Claw is now shipping...'
2. ^Ocampo, Jason (1997). 'Claw seeks to deliver non-violent action'. Computer Games Magazine. Archived from the original on February 6, 2005. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
3. ^'The PC as Arcade Machine'. GamePro (100). January 1997. p. 68.
4. ^http://kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/community.html
5. ^'LGR - The 1997 DVD-ROM Upgrade Experience'. YouTube. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
6. ^L. House, Michael. 'Claw - Review'. Allgame. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
7. ^Claw at GameSpot
8. ^Williamson, Colin (December 1997). 'Claw'. PC Gamer. Archived from the original on December 5, 1999. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
9. ^Majaski, Craig (1997). 'Sink Your Claws Into This One: A Review of Claw'. WorldVillage. Archived from the original on February 2, 2002. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
10. ^Bernstein, Daniel (November 17, 1997). 'Creating an Interactive Audio Environment'. Gamasutra. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
11. ^Wildgoose, David (July 1998). 'Claw'. PC Powerplay (26). p. 98.
12. ^http://kapitanpazur.piasta.pl/en/index.html
13. ^Burch, Anthony (January 16, 2007). 'Games that time forgot: Claw'. Destructoid. Retrieved April 2, 2017.
14. ^LithTech 1.0 Promotional - Monolith Productions (1998)
15. ^ ^abhttp://thecaptainclawforum.forumotion.com/t15-captain-claw-2

External links[edit]

• Claw at MobyGames

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Downloads needed

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

Videos

(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.

Captain Claw Para Mac

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)

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.

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