Phone Detective

Xbox 360/PS3, ? 39.99, cert 18 +, Grasshopper Manufacture / EA

For a game of two Japanese development 's greatest stars created - Shinji Mikami of Resident Evil fame and Suda51, the Killer 7 and No More Heroes created - Shadows of the Damned seems limped into the shops with a surprising lack of fanfare have. This is even more remarkable when you consider that it 's their first collaboration, and the first game either has to be published by Electronic Arts. Perhaps the forces, who feared that due to its makers 'track records, it would be too weird to handle the general public. And indeed, Shadows of the Damned as funny as hell, and just like the average horror movie fan twisted desires.

They play Garcia Hotspur, a demon-hunter, his girlfriend Paula, has been kidnapped and dragged into the underworld of Fleming, a leather-coated demon king with several sets of red eyes. Their mission is simple: to kill your way through the underworld of the work, all demons can occur before Fleming 's Castle, took up his ass and get back to Paula. A Simple Plan proposes exactly that Hotspur isn 't exactly the finer points of existentialism affected and the like.

In fact proves his lack of political correctness in order on a similar level as Duke Nukem, and he has a more-than-willing accomplice in the form of Johnson, an English accent ex-demon \ as a torch works Hotspur 's right hand and turns into a weapon, if you will Hotspur. Johnson is the key to the game: He has three forms, in their base countries as Boner, and the teether Monocussioner known. These are a semi-automatic pistol, a machine gun and a shotgun that shoots explosive skulls, respectively.

Gameplay-wise, Mikami has clearly taken the lead, like Shadows of the Damned feels a lot like Resident Evil, although in this case, you can still move, if you aim it 're - the ability to roll out of the way of incoming attacks is a key mechanic. One of the game 's fun aspects is trying to figure out which elements were developed by Mikami and Suda51. A key mechanic feels like it was conceived together: in times when the demons is a black, oily darkness that constantly regenerate itself drained Hotspur 's health - luckily he has an alternative light-shot, which he has goat-head-lamps can target drive away the darkness, or barrels under pressure light to tear apart nearby demons like bombs. Sometimes there are no goats around head lamps, Hotspur, Johnson as a flashlight for lighting fireworks launchers instead, which made him only a temporary respite from the threat of darkness.

There are several ways in which the dark puzzle offers opportunities as well as many other traditional puzzles. And there are times when turning the gameplay is wild - the 2D loading screen to turn at different points in a 2D side-scrolling shooter (which cleverly retains the dark / light mechanic) and plenty of head- battles, the Resident Evil fans will find comforting familiarity. But the best aspect of the game perhaps, as it is limited to only three weapons that you can update regularly so that they acquire outrageous forces. The Boner may be, for example in the Big Boner, while Johnson is on is connected to a phone-sex line, always a huge object Hotspur hardly objective, but what makes sense, since he standing on the roof of a building and the use This concluded a 50-meter-high demons. The teether developed an auto-aim and Monocussioner finally allows the loading of four skulls, which deal in a rolling bomb that to you essentially demons as bowling pins can be (and is crucial for the later boss battles) to combine.

Shadows of the Damned, then it is possible to both familiar (if you're a fan of Resident Evil, you can 'll love it, and unlike anything you \)' ve ever before, with regard to the bizarre world they played takes place in, that seems to make a disturbing amount of sense. It 's true that at times it feels a little disjointed, the dialogue is clunky and annoying sometimes because there is no online element, one could argue that it' s hopelessly old-fashioned. But if you offer such as the type of gameplay, Resident Evil, there is much joy to you, more or less from start to finish.

Rating: 4 / 5