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16-10-2004, 01:13 AM
I've been playing through this one for a little while. Haven't finished it yet. Not a real bad game, could have been done a little better though.

Plot Summary. You and your wife die in a car crash, your wife ends up in the afterlife, but you are stuck between heaven and hell. To get yourself into the afterlife, and back by your wife's side, you have to defeat the armies of hell.

Pros:
Undead!!! Undead everywhere. Kill them, kill them all. You've got everything from zombies, to skeletons and just about anything else you can think of. Clawcity might like the game due to this.

Weapons are not too bad. Every one of your weapons has a secondary fire. The rocket launcher, for example has a chain gun as the secondary fire. You've got 5 weapons, each with their own secondary weapon, so u basically have 10 weapons.

Every enemy you kill, they leave a soul behind for you to collect. This restores 1 unit of your health. Also could be considered a con, because it can make the game a little bit too easy. Although apparently on the hardest setting (Trauma. But you have to finish the game on Nightmare before you can play the game in Trauma mode) there are no souls to collect.

There is a mode in the game called Demon Morph, where if you collect about 65 souls, you temporarily morph into a demon. While in this mode, nothing can hurt you, and you get to go on a little murderous rampage, where you just rip your enemies apart.

Cons:
AI can be pretty bloody stupid. I mean really, they are meant to be hell's friggin armies, but they have no tactical skills at all. They all come running at you, some of the time in single file, and you can easily mow them down without them even touching you. Zombies are hiding on the ceiling, which is cool enough. But instead of dropping down behind you, and scaring the crap outta you, they just wait there, until you look up, and then blow the crap outta them.

Lighting could have been done much better. They could have made it a lot more darker in places, have enemies jump out at you.

Ummm, sound I didn't really take much notice of. Could actually be a con, now that I think about it. Sound and music wasn't really scary, didn't have much in the way of scary music, or scary sounds to make the player want to turn around quickly, just to see if there's a nasty little bugger sneaking up on them.



All in all, it wasn't great, but it wasn't all bad. I had a bit of fun playing it, and will play it through to the end. I give it 6/10

Multiplayer mode, it has got, but I will give a report on it, as soon as I try it out in multiplayer. I got another PC that I could run it on.

Lengthy post. Sorry. My bad.

16-10-2004, 02:19 AM
old skool post.sorry Your bad

16-10-2004, 02:30 AM
nothing wrong with reviewing somefin "old" if it aint been covered here it cant hurt to put something down.. nice coverage punda!

17-10-2004, 01:02 AM
Thanks sks.

Also, how old is old?? I wouldn't have thought 2004 to be too old.

At least, it said 2004 on the box. (I think)

17-10-2004, 11:27 AM
hmm
im up to a boss.. hes realy hard to kill.. i think hes immortal...
theres a firey pit behind him.. but i see no way of gettin him in..
Any help?

17-10-2004, 12:44 PM
OK. I just gotta remember back to this level. At times, I have a shocking memory.

Anyhow, if you look up above the fiery pit, you should see a square wooden thing in the ceiling, if you blast that with the secondary fire on your pain killer weapon, then it should fall in. You'll see a beam of light or something, where that wooden thing used to be in the ceiling.

Now, there's a kind of a little path that goes a small way into the fiery pit, and there should be some wooden planks at the very end.

Try standing on these planks, and wait for that thing to come after you. When he gets himself onto the planks as well, dodge around him, and go back up that path, and he should fall in. Anyhow, that's how it happened for me.

Hope this helps apple!

17-10-2004, 12:48 PM
/me wanders off to try...

20-10-2004, 08:05 PM
ggggggggggggeeeeeeeeeeeeeee punda u have a memory lol are u sure lmfao !!!!!

20-10-2004, 08:35 PM
heh.. funnily enough it was EXACTLY as he said :-\

22-10-2004, 08:18 AM
this game was ok till i realised how repetative it is :S

22-10-2004, 09:01 AM
this game was ok till i realised how repetative it is :S
Reminds me of Doom 3...

Painkiller was Serious Sam with a undead theme. I liked it, for what it was worth ;)

23-10-2004, 12:28 AM
Its fun as!! lots of zombies to frag.. not theme.. just lots and lots and lots of zombies.. its awesome!!

23-10-2004, 10:28 PM
yeah i agree about d3 beefy

24-10-2004, 08:30 PM
hmmmmmmmmmmmm might havta track dis down interested in ne thing to do with zombies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!