GameSpy writes: "We recently had the opportunity to play through the first few levels of Legendary and although the character design certainly explores new FPS territory, the game design seems archaically linear. To be sure, the wealth of mystical creatures found in Legendary are both gruesome and well-rendered, but these are countered by fairly generic-looking soldiers fighting on two sides of a three-sided conflict. As Will Tuttle mentioned in an earlier hands-on, the story is about the conflict between two occult secret societies over whether chaos or order is the best path for society, and the result of this disagreement spills over into the real world when you "accidentally" open Pandora's Box and make this metaphysical dilemma decidedly more physical.
Coloring Inside the Lines
Although developer Spark Unlimited seems to have locked the frame-rate down at a fairly regular 30 frames per second, it's the old-school linearity that could ultimately be a bit perplexing. Legendary looks great graphically, but the level design doesn't give you much freedom to explore in its current state of development. Still, it appears that Legendary's narrow focus could be mediated with just a few slight tweaks, because there are some pretty cool things that come from that linearity."
Spiffy:
-Fantastic character models for monsters
-Nicely scripted set pieces
Iffy:
-Restrictively linear
-Friendly and hostile soldiers look pretty generic
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.
Looking for great games for the holidays?
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 :)
