Sewer Shark was a first person shooter developed by Digital Pictures and published by Sony Imagesoft. Sewer Shark is a full-motion video game (fmv), Sega CD had a lot of fmv games and Sewer Shark is probably the best of the fmv on the system. This is probably the most common and easy to find game on the Sega CD and was bundled with the later CD units. When this game was first released it saw great reviews and was on Associated Presses top ten list, but after the excitement of a home console playing full-montion video wore off the popularity of this game went down hill.

   Sewer Shark like other fmv games on the system have grainy video quality with the picture not stretched out enough to fill up the screen. The sound is pretty good but sometimes hard to hear what the actor's are saying. As fmv games go Sewer Shark is probably one of the best on the Sega CD and is a must play for a Sega nut. When flying through the sewers the main enemies you will encounter are giant rats and bats. The game feels realistic if you can get over the slightly grainy quality. The cut scenes are funny when trying to be serious and cheesy when trying to be funny.

   Sewer Shark takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where environmental destruction has forced most of humanity to live underground. You are a Sewer jockey trying to clean out the pipes of all the vermin, to help you through the sewer you are given a small robot named Catfish that scouts ahead and gives you directions. You better listen to Catfishes directions carefully because if you make a wrong turn you will most likely die. What makes this game hard is you have a limited amount of energy, when you run out you crash.

   This game is not as bad as most people will tell you. I personally love it and pop it in the ol Sega CD from time to time. So if you are looking for something different or just plan cheesy this is the game for you.