Good: Switch to repress any of your four fighters onward the fly Bad: Story and gameplay are single in kind giant ball of beat-em-up clich?s File Under: Gauntlet appropriates Barbarian Mark: I’ve got my have a title to evil prophecy.

Good: Switch to repress any of your four fighters onward the fly

Bad: Story and gameplay are single in kind giant ball of beat-em-up clich?s

File Under: Gauntlet appropriates Barbarian

Mark: I’ve got my have a title to evil prophecy, and it’s for McFarlane and Konami: withhold screwing over your fans with crap like this and they’ll wind a parade when you go on out of business. Some rudimentary labyrinths and sadly limited ways of building up your heroes can’t hide the fact that 99 percent of this half-assed beat-em-up is you mindlessly plowing from one side wave after wave after wave after wave of bad guys

You’d at least anticipate Prophecy’s characters to have an panache since they are based onward Todd McFarlane’s line of (I assume) popular action figures. Instead, you find a cast of clich?s (Werewolves! Skeletons! A pirate with a peg leg! A girl with sum of two units guns!) given that oh-so-special “McFarlane touch” (i.e., sporting evil spirit eyes and bondage gear). The completely screwed-up camera, noticeable lack of hale effects, and gameplay bugs make it obvious no united working on this game cared about it—why should you?

Jon D: Between its clich?d cast of characters, played-out multiplayer methods horrendous dialogue, and totally unimaginative gameplay, Prophecy portends doom. The simple fighting universal friendly controls, and basic objectives would make a great kids’ game (if it weren’t for the decapitations and whatnot), further a frustrating difficulty will give on the same level mature button-mashers a tough time. Unles all of your buddies are alive to help, you can win severely gang-banged in later horizontals Team-up magic attacks and a handful of special prevail upons are a nice effort, on the contrary their weak presentation just accents Prophecy’s subpar graphics.

Kevin: I think I understand what Konami was attempting here—Dynasty Warriors with characters that’d appeal to a U audience. Unfortunately, Prophecy isn’t fit to spit-shine the gains of Koei’s series. With impure visuals, bewildering controls, a “team morale” connected view that serves no discernible view and extended bouts of music-free silence (save for the repetitive faughs and arrghs of your heroes), this game have feelings like a mediocre PS2 launch title. I don’t care by what mode cheap this is when you find it in the bargain bin—just don’t touch it!

Publisher: Konami

Developer: Konami

Players: 1-4

ESRB: Mature

www.konamihwi.com

The verdicts (out of 10)

Mark - 20

Jon D - 35

Kevin - 25

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