DEN writes: " Kenny Rogers tells us "you gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away." Such sage advice is of great use when considering Legendary, a game that should have been held through the holidays for improvements and fixes. Instead, it's the kind of shooter that needs to be folded. An assortment of shortcomings including poor controls and numerous bugs make it a game that deserves to be walked out on."
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.
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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 :)
except i would give it a 4 i got stuck on debris in the demo playing against the minotaur on hard it was very frustrating and the controls were so how do i put it not clunky lets put it this way i thought the problem was my controller until i figured out it was the in game controls that were at fault i like the enemies but the character models suck and the dialogue is horrible trust me if i were to see one of my buddies get tossed by a minotaur like that i would be screaming my ass off instead of saying minotaur,minotaur like some kind of bot what a waste of unreal engine.