GamersMark: "There's a great deal of irony when one considers the name "Legendary" after playing the game. It will certainly be remembered, maybe even as a "legend," but certainly not in the manner Gamecock was shooting for. If the first-person shooter is to this generation what the mascot platformer was for the 16-bit days we've found our current-day Bubsy. It's a hollow, soulless attempt to cash in on a flooded market.
The premise has potential, but it fails in execution. You are Deckard, master thief, and the game begins after your character infiltrates a New York museum (missing a prime opportunity for an easy introduction-tutorial) with the intent of stealing Pandora's Box. Of course, the idiot protagonist opens it instead, unleashing the mythological horrors that reside inside. Namely griffins, werewolves, and odd little rock creatures that spit fireballs at you and take a million bullets to dispatch.
Right. So there are monsters. And it's your job to shoot them to death. Good luck. The guns in Legendary are some of the most inaccurate and powerless weapons to ever make it into a video game. Killing rock monsters is an exercise in frustration, especially while trying to dodge subway trains, which are still running even though the streets are caving in and everything is on fire. Note that it's not frustrating because the AI is good, but because your enemies just won't die. Couple that with the fact that Deckard (probably realistically) can't take much damage, and you're on your way to a grayer-shade of hair."
In this special 'Sadistic Santa' edition of the Black Panel Podcast, the team discusses the horrid presents they have received for Xmas, including Farming Simulator, Duke Nukem Forever and Legendary.
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In honor of Thanksgiving and real turkeys everywhere that have laid down their lives in the service of your belly, here is a small collection of PC gaming 'turkeys' we've reviewed over the last year to avoid this holiday season.
Blair Herter announces the winner of G-Phoria '09 Game Most Deserving of a Uwe Boll Movie. Nominees include 'Golden Axe: Beast Rider', 'Castlevania Judgment', 'Legendary', 'Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayer' and 'X-Blades'.
NOTHING deserves a Uwe Boll movie. That guy is simply atrocious at everything he does. I can't believe how he can make a move so stupid, I'm not kidding I got sick after watching House of the Dead. It's like he actually wants to fail. A monkey with a camera and 10 bucks can make a better movie than this guy.
"Until the law was changed in 2005, Boll was able to acquire funding thanks to German tax laws that reward investments in film. The law allowed investors in German-owned films to write off 100% of their investment as a tax deduction; it also allowed them to invest borrowed money and write off any fees associated with the loan. The investor was then only required to pay taxes on the profits made by the movie; if the movie loses money, the investor got a tax writeoff."
And in his own words, "Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the Government."
He basically makes money even if its crap, which all of them have been.
I've already seen an Onechanbara movie. Made in Japan and campy as hell but I enjoyed it thou :)
