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."
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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).
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.
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