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Ryan Lennox is a fallen angel who has been recruited by hell
to fight 'Etherlight', heaven's own secret agency. Etherlight
has eliminated most of hell's earthly agents and is planning
its final blow against its arch rival. Lennox, hunted by his
opponents, is left to take them on single-handed, armed with
a vast arsenal of weapons and supernatural powers. The captivating
plot sends him from ancient monastery catacombs and secret
mountain hideouts to sprawling harbour docks and oil refineries,
before finally facing the ultimate showdown...
Infernal
is
a third person shooter that tries a little too hard to carve
a niche for itself in a marketplace overcrowded with numerous
clones. You play a fallen angel (what another one? I thought
Lucifer was the last word in fallen angels) who is recruited
by hell to fight against heaven. That said I was expecting
some mean ass baddie who would kill with just a look. Sadly
your demonic powers seem a little lacking when it comes to
some things that even I can do in reality.
One
thing that has frustrated me with games like this for years
is the fact that despite your character being bigger and badder
than any normal human the developers will insist on blocking
your exit from rooms with barrels and locked wooden doors.
Come on. Are we really expected to believe that Lennox wouldn't
simply smash through these without a second thought? Yet that
is exactly what we are expected to swallow while we spend
hours skulking around rooms looking for hidden levers, keycards
or other means in order to progress onto further levels. There's
also the fact that this fallen angel obviously didn't fall
that far - as the game illustrates. Drop more than a few feet
and you die. Oops! Bang goes the fallen angel plot then.
Ignore
these little hiccups in the narrative and this is not half
bad as third person shooters go. There is slightly more to
it than simply running around similar looking corridors past
countless locked doors (although this, sadly does feature
quite prominently). The bosses are a little more fleshed out
than most brainless games in a similar league. But I just
couldn't help feeling that this could have been so much better.
Sadly
though it's very unlikely, unless you've been living in a
cave for the past 10 years, that you'll find anything truly
original here. It's all been done before - and much better.
However, this will help you pass a wet weekend, if you fancy
a bit of mindless play.
Pete
Boomer
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