Ben Rowland writes: British developer Climax Studios has an eclectic roster of games under their belt, with the underrated Silent Hill: Shattered Memories sitting alongside titles like EyePet & Friends and Rocket Knight. In Bloodforge, published by Microsoft Studios and released on the Xbox Live Arcade, they take a stab (literally) at the hack n’ slash genre with Bloodforge, an action-adventure game that provides compelling and enjoyable melee-based combat with copious amounts of bloodshed.
The results bear more than a passing resemblance to the famed God of War franchise in both style and scope. Does this game have what it takes to stand alongside the likes of Kratos, or should Climax Studios have forged a different path altogether?
It seems strange today that fifteen years ago a game could sell purely because it was gory. Games like Manhunt received free advertising because of their gore that only helped their sales but nowadays games are supposed to have more depth and complexity than simply covering the foreground with red all the time. As you might guess from the name, Bloodforge attempts to be unique by doing something hundreds of games have already done making every single enemy in the game explode in a bloody mess whenever they’re killed.
Wasnt that War Z game out in 2012? I would say that it had to make the list of worst games..
Definitely Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is the worst game of 2012. It got a 38 on metacritic and sold only a measly 60k copies. It doesn't get any worse than that.
Yeah, for me and the dozen other dudes who figured out how to play it, it was one of 2012's gems.
from the beach.
I agree its definitely an interesting game and this shows how gamers are unwilling to adjust to new ways of playing, Challenges for the new generation is not something they are willing to face.
This is Lair all over again, No one was willing to learn the control and flagged it as broken but yet i finished it in one sitting learning the control and had a blast.
Having played the game, I can safely say that it had nothing to do with people not being able to "learn" the controls. The problem was that the controls don't work. They make it look so effortless in the bullshit trailers, but in the actual game nothing ever works right. So the two of you can consider yourselves VERY lucky.
Now when it comes to Lair, I will agree. The controls in Lair actually did work, you just had to get used to it. But Steel Battalion isn't like that, the game is just fucking broken.
When your consumer spends more time fighting with the controls, rather than playing the game itself, that's just bad design. It has nothing to do with learning anything.
Yeah, well having beaten the game I can safely say the controls did work, but it takes patience to learn and composure and skill to pull off.
I think assuming it is "effortless" was your mistake, you need to take a bit of time with the set up and make your movements deliberate and consistent or Kinect doesn't know what you're doing.
Remember that this was a completely unprecedented control system - you can't expect to go straight in and kick ass, you have to feel your way in. The actual game was tough as balls too so I've no doubt that's part of why people gave up.
I didn't play Lair so I can't comment, but I can imagine it being the same sort of thing.
Also, I have to pull you up on "very lucky" - obviously there's no such thing when it comes to a game, it either WORKS or DOES NOT WORK. The fact is that I could play it.
gamrReview: "A week or so ago we presented our picks for the best games of the year so far (click here if you missed it). Now it's time to name and shame the worst games of the year so far. In what is very much a case of the triumph of hope over experience, we have our fingers crossed that the list remains relatively unchanged come the end of the year."
I have a signed ridge racer poster, that's about the highlight of the game for me.
what happened to resident evil operation racoon city why didnt it get metioned on there as well
Revelations 2012 isn't on this list... It's byfar the WORST game of the year, maybe even in the history of gaming by some points of view.
I really like the Frank Miller art style. Disappointed to hear that the game is another "Angry Man Adventures" though.
Angry Man Adventures FTW!
Not reviewing well, this game is.
Dont believe all the bad reviews!ESpecially coming from certain reviewrs that are able to review 4 to 5 games a week!Yes Jim im talking to you and others that do the same!nOT to mention one that was having a bad time because of the dificulty of the game and start blaming the camara!Theres an evade executable in the game!