ZTGD Review: Legendary

ZeroTolerance writes:

"In a year that has played host to some of the best games to ever be released you really have to have something special to stand out among the pack. Spark Unlimited's (Turning Point: Fall of Liberty) latest shooter attempts to do that with an epic scale single-player focused on a well-known myth. Combine this with massive scale environments and it sounds like you have a game that lives up to its supercilious namesake. Unfortunately a few things crop up early on that haunt the game throughout its course that keeps it from truly becoming epic. What we end up getting once all is said and done is a solid first-person shooter that does a lot of interesting new things while making a few design choices that will frustrate more than innovate.

You assume the role of Charles Deckard, a thief hired to break into the New York museum and place a key into an otherwise ordinary artifact. Little to your knowledge this box actually contains massive amounts of death and destruction as it is in fact the fabled Pandora's Box. Deckard of course does what is asked of him and in the process unleashes all of the world's evil upon New York City. You quickly realize that the man who hired you, LeFey, and his partner Vivian have double-crossed you. When the box opens Deckard is also branded with a symbol on his hand that allows him to suck in the souls of the dead, heal himself and even attack. Unfortunately this is also one of the game's biggest problems."

Pros
+ Cool enemies
+ Clever ways to dispatch them
Cons
- Linear progression kills immersion
- Healing system is broken
- Story is predictable
- No one is playing online!