The game plays much like mythical Half-life; with Gryphons and Werewolves invading Earth instead of Headcrabs and Vortigaunts. And there is often a lot of chaos going on around you, but the player is strangely divorced from it. Part of it is the controls, part of it is that the scripting is too obvious. There are parts where you can be standing next to a gryphon while it does its scripted thing, totally ignoring you showering it with bullets. A few cool looking monsters and some nifty battles come too little, too late. This concept is a winner, but if there's a sequel, it's going to need some more time in the oven.
Pros
• A few cool battles
• Certainly is a lot of chaos going on around you
• Great look creatures
• Interesting multiplayer modes
Cons
• Weird collision issues
• Floaty controls
• Game often feels like its on rails
• Annoying jumping sequences
• Disjointed story
In this special 'Sadistic Santa' edition of the Black Panel Podcast, the team discusses the horrid presents they have received for Xmas, including Farming Simulator, Duke Nukem Forever and Legendary.
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In honor of Thanksgiving and real turkeys everywhere that have laid down their lives in the service of your belly, here is a small collection of PC gaming 'turkeys' we've reviewed over the last year to avoid this holiday season.
Blair Herter announces the winner of G-Phoria '09 Game Most Deserving of a Uwe Boll Movie. Nominees include 'Golden Axe: Beast Rider', 'Castlevania Judgment', 'Legendary', 'Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayer' and 'X-Blades'.
NOTHING deserves a Uwe Boll movie. That guy is simply atrocious at everything he does. I can't believe how he can make a move so stupid, I'm not kidding I got sick after watching House of the Dead. It's like he actually wants to fail. A monkey with a camera and 10 bucks can make a better movie than this guy.
"Until the law was changed in 2005, Boll was able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor got a tax writeoff."
And in his own words, "Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."
He basically makes money even if its crap, which all of them have been.
I've already seen an Onechanbara movie. Made in Japan and campy as hell but I enjoyed it thou :)
