Ghost Rider

A shining example of licened gaming. Not.
Version
 PS2, PSP, GBA		Developer
Climax Studios		Publisher
2K Games		Genre
Action



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Although throwing one's pad at the wall and swearing a lot are not considered mature or intelligent reactions to a game cheating like this, I don't care. I call bullshit on this system. A lack of camera control is confounding, exacerbating the problem and making progression through the game an infuriating slog. Not exactly the best copy of DMC and GoW then, really.

"Graphically things are, shall we say, less spicy than one would've hoped."

Away from gameplay and other actual important matters come more problems - the sound is boring, with the same pseudo-rock riffs playing out in every battle and near-unintelligible speech peppering the dull cut scenes (covering the boring, boring, rubbish and crap story).

Graphically things are, shall we say, less spicy than one would have hoped. Drab, lifeless, boring. Even the Rider instills yawns from all who see him flying about with his Flaming Chain of Vengeance (I don't know what it's called, or if it even has a name).

The tie-in with the movie is tenuous at best, which means no Nic Cage on top of all the other problems. That gruff bloke from the film kits you out though - you know, the one who might be from Blade but I'm not entirely sure (IMDB says he was in The Big Lebowski, thus making him a winner and adding one whole mark to this review).

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But how would this game truly fit the Ghost Rider if it were just poorly implemented combat, cheap enemies and uninspiring locales? If it were to have motorbike sections, of course! And my word if they aren't an utterly spectacular failure in every single way imaginable!

Tacked on, shoehorned in and crowbarred through, the race/battle sections are so uninspiring I felt the need to leave the room for a few days to try and come to terms with what was happening in my PS2. I don't want to talk about the bike sections. They bring back memories of a time I'd rather forget. Needless to say, they're so bad it made me want to eat my face. And that's putting it lightly.

If you have a soul, sell it to the devil just so you never have to play this game. It comes across as if the developers were trying to instigate the apocalypse by putting this utter hell on Earth. Johnny Blaze needs to go away, back to his rubbish name and his actually quite good comic, and never sully the reputation of games again. The Lebowski bloke, however, should be in more things.











Graphics Sound Gameplay Depth Presentation OVERALL
5.0 4.0 3.0 5.0 6.0 3.5


THE VERDICT: This is everything that is wrong with film licences - nay, everything that is wrong with games as a whole. Derived from two of the greatest examples of the genre, you would expect Ghost Rider to at least be a bit fun. Well it isn't. Poorly implemented, boring, drab and uninspired: Blaze needs to Ghost Ride his whip all the way to the bin.

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