Destructoid - Hunted: The Demon's Forge Review

Destructoid - The last time inXile graced the world with a console roleplaying was with The Bard's Tale back in 2004. Since then, the studio has been quietly working away on a number of mobile games, so it's certainly interesting to see the company return to full-scale RPGs after making games like Super Stacker, Super Stacker 2 and Super Stacker Party.

[antauwnehart]

lmfao! fail! hahahahahah!

[VictoriousB13]

Cue Jim Sterling is a troll comments.

[Tony P]

For what?

Reviewers don't generate controversy by giving a game that's getting 5-7 average in other reviews a 6.5.

Edit: That reply button surely didn't work.

[VictoriousB13]

See the comments below you? Yup those are "Jim Sterling is a troll" comments.

[F4sterTh4nFTL]

What a fucking asshole loser troll Jim Sterling is, He gave a once in a lifetime masterpiece The Witcher 2 a 6/10 and Hunted: The Demon's Forge which is just another generic RPG with half naked chicks a 6.5/10 to mock the furious The Witcher 2 fans. Just shows how serious he is about reviewing games and how fucking morons are Metacritic and Gamerankings to consider his reviews legit. Everything is fucked up only Player response matters in the end.

[Son_Lee]

I remember he gave Alpha Protocol something like a 2 or a 3. That game was easily an 8 or a 9 in my book. He's probably the worst reviewer out there today. Makes me wonder how I'm not in the business yet with the constant crap these people are churning out.

[kancerkid]

He is not the only person who gave Alpha Protocol a 2 or 3.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

So he has to conform to what you think of the game and everyone should think its awesome just because you do?

Theres something called opinion and everybody has one, get used to it.

And a reviewer is nothing but a paid opinion and if you take their recommendation to buy a game or to not buy a game your a fool anyway.

[Grimhammer00]

I'm 1hr away from finish a single plyr hunted.
It's no 6.5 in my book. More like 8/10.

It's fun, has a style to it...lent from Lotr but still nice. Graphics are great...but aftr you hit ch3 it's much better. And coop works well. Crucible allows for more play...but I never get why you'd want to. I play RPGs for the story...even average stories like hunted. Why play just to play? The mechanics aren't that good that you'd want to play over and over. Their decent enough though.

Slightly better than average game with coop. ....so maybe 7/10 lol

[Miths]

I was hesitant to buy this game after first a distinct lack of reviews, and then rather mediocre scores (although most of those 7ish reviews did seem to like at least certain aspects of the game).

I'm four hours into the PC version now (somewhere in chapter 2) - playing solo - and I'm very glad I decided to take my chance with this game. So far it's been one hell of an entertaining dungeon crawl (with some stints under open sky) playing as E'lara. I can't recall ever having this much fun with bow and arrows in any action game or RPG before - and making it what may be the first case of (voluntary) cover based archery was a great decision.

The game also looks pretty great. Or let me clarify that by saying I was initially sorely underwhelmed, as the outdoors area in daylight during the prologue make the graphics look very dated, but once it's night time or in dungeons, it impresses a lot more. It also runs at a rock solid 60 fps at 1920x1200 on my aging Geforce GTX 260, which is a nice change of pace from a certain other fantasy game I'm playing at the moment (it involves a W and a 2 in the title :)).

Voice acting is also solid, I particularly like the frequent banter between E'lara and Caddock (although I have noticed a few repeated lines so far, hopefully there will be enough variety throughout the game so the dialogue doesn't become tiresome).

If I had to give it a score at this point - and assuming it keeps up the same quality - it would probably be an 8/10.