Legendary

Well I am suprised. The vast majority of reviews and critiques on Legendary have been less than complementary, with a lot of mud slinging going on. And agreed, here and there are instances where it feels technically slack, or stupidly out of date - but generally, taken as a whole this is a wonderful game, with some hugely atmospheric moments, and some real highlights if you take the time to play through.

Bad and good things then: Linear as hell, you're channelled along one path with no deviation in any way. Often the barriers in your way are approximately ankle high, but for some reason Deckard can't jump more than about 6 inches off the deck and thus has to detour around small walls, kerbs, tiny piles of masonry etc. Its ridiculous dated stuff, but not a game breaking thing.

The AI is thick. Certainly enemies run around taking cover, but they'll happily take cover then leave their heads poking out taking pot shots at you (and mostly missing) allowing you to take you time lining up your shot and popping them in the noggin. Emergent AI this is not - again it feels fairly dated, but its still entertaining stuff.

Graphically, well it ranges from gorgeous (honestly! it really does) to the chronic, but overall theres a level of shine and polish thats pleasing on the eye. You'll spend a fair bit of time roaming dingy sewers and ruined buildings, which are all nicely done, hugely atmospheric with decent water and lighting effects, nice texturing and good smoke etc. Occasionally you'll hit the odd bland area, but mostly the graphics are impressive.

The monsters, well, again they're a mixed bag, and often its the implementation and design that frustrates more than the beasties themselves. One of two werewolves are a little creepy, a little exciting. 30 werewolves all spamming the screen at once becomes irritating, same with the ephemeral flying children things. They do gradually become annoying when attacking in numbers.

Technically we're a little out of date too, with some mad clipping errors, limbs through walls etc, curious physics here and there. Messy and slightly amateurish, but only really a problem if a werewolve dies with his head stuck in a wall, meaning you can't chop it off, meaning it regenerates and needs killing again.

Read as a checklist of features, I have to say Legendary sounds awful - but its really not, the whole thing gels very well and becomes a cohesive and excitingly atmospheric trek through the ruins of the world with some big exciting stuff going on - you're taken from the shattering destruction of New York and London, with explosions and screaming and Griffins everywhere, to the dark quiet journeys through the sewers, populated by the bodies of those who tried to hide and the odd werewolf here and there.

Give it a go. For a tenner its hard not to recommend, and like me you might be hugely and pleasantly suprised.

In legendary you play as charles deckard a man whos been tricked into opening pandoras box. The storys nicely told but let down by rubbish voice acting and a unsatisfiying ending. The gameplay is the good part: First of all, every mythical creature and more that you can think of is in this game , from werewolfes to griffons this game has everything. The graphics of the game are nice and enimies are quite smart for a game, also alot of enviroment are fully destructible and its amazing to see a griifon tearing an entire building apart. The gameplay is very fast paced and has alot of original ideas , these range from huge battles were different mythical creatures, evil soldiers and your own men will all be in one huge battle. Theres also the animus, this is a strange power attached to your arm and brings lots of strategy to the game because every time you kill an enimy you get animus power and you can either use it as a weapon or use it to heal yourself. The game does have problems though , mostly the difficulty because the game usually just chucks loads of hard enimies at you and because of an annoying check point system you usually have to play a section of the game over and over again . Another dissapointment is the multiplayer: it can only be played with xbox live and is quit dissapouinting but does have some good ideas like having in game enimies come and attack the players while in multiplayer match . So overall this does have flaws but is heavily enjoyable well worth a try .

Price at time of writing is £19.99 and I would advise no one to pay more.

A stocking filler me thinks. Uses Unreal engine poorly. Most of the monsters are quite basic, they look quite like they would on the old xbox or PS2. The Griffins aren't too bad and quite nicely animated. But the rest are average.

The control isn't that good. you get hung up very easily and I found it quite dodgy when aiming. The guns seem under powered, especially in multliplayer.

I think the kids will like it, but it certainly has a limited life span. It does have some very, very quick achievements if thats your thing.

Multiplayer is ok, but it does have an interesting game mode that I haven't seen before which does have some appeal. However I can only play for short periods as the control and under powered weapons start to grate after a while.

I paid 19.99 for mine else where. Now I know what the game is like I would wait a couple of months, it will drop in price fast I reckon.

Legendary is a very generic FPS with good ideas. Story is good as is the gameplay. Graphics are average. As I said before it is generic but I did enjoy playing it. Some of the boss fights are cool too like The Kraken and The Double Minotaur fight. There is also a very cool soundtrack for Legendary as well. The achievements are very easy with some comical ones too and long multiplayer grind achievements. Overall a very generic FPS but an enjoyable one at that.

I got this game today and have to say its good i like the way its not the same story as alot of game out there it plays well and looks good if you have some spare cash then go on give this game ago.