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This is a nice looking 3rd-person action adventure game that's chock full
of bloody, button-pounding mayhem in which you set out to vanquish an evil scientist
bent on turning the world into a fiend-infested deathtrap. This port of the
PlayStation game has huge monsters you have to fight at every bend, ranging from
zombies to werewolves to giant beetles, and are terrifically detailed, fast, and
ferocious. And either of the two tough characters at your command, the staff-wielding
priest Ignatius and the young swordswoman Nadia, looks like an even enough match for
them. Best of all, though, is the scenery, which really brings nineteenth-century
London to life: A lazy fog hangs just above the stone streets; street lamps flicker,
casting a calm light on their surroundings; rivers and waterways look placid and the
homes lining their banks are quaint and almost inviting. Each of the dozen-odd stages
in Nightmare Creatures looks different and feels real, yet the washed-out color
palette used throughout the game lends everything a dreary appearance. The controls
though are frustrating...rotating is slow while enemies move fast. You can't save in
each level either and must move through levels fast because if you don't defeat enemies
fast enough you die as your adrenaline level keeps decreasing. |
