One of the games that had a huge hype before, on the day of and after its release. I remember back in the days when some of my friends were talking about this game with lots of euphoria, shown me the articles about it in the various magazines, and so on. To be honest, there is something great about this game, but the essential part is a complete failure. I will break it down into two columns.

I will go with the good quality stuff first. The voice acting is superb. Jack Black, the Jewish guy who wants you to leave Catholicism and Protestantism, and convert to the "religion of Metal", did splendid job with voice acting here. Not a big surprise, as his acting and voice acting skills are always good and convincing. Especially in the role he had in acting for the propaganda piece against Donald Trump and North Korea situation... and in additional, occasional appearances to trash talk his president. Not bad for a left wing "apolitical" actor and a musician... anything for that sweet kosher money. Oh, wait… well, I will move on: The voice acting of other cast is great too. Almost each character in the game has visual appearance in the form of a caricature of the respective voice actors, who are mostly Rock and Heavy Metal music artists as well as professional actors. Some of them include Robert Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford among others. The aesthetics of the art direction, combined with great facial animations and splendid voice acting sells the story. The main menu has one of the best user interfaces I have seen, and the game greets you with some good music in the main menu. I was surprised to hear Iced Earth - When The Night Falls, Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe, and Testament - More Than Meets The Eye blasting right when the game starts. The encyclopaedia websites display the list of some great Heavy Metal, Rock, Industrial, Mallcore songs in this game, but unfortunately I did not get a chance listening to them, and I will explain why in the next column. The game has some of the best cutscenes in the gaming industry. The plot is nothing but cheezy, but the delivery is amazing, with the combination of the elements which I have listed earlier.

And then, there is the gameplay itself, which is terrible. The game suffers from lots of issues, and there are many. The main character can’t jump, yet it is the Action game. There are two attack buttons, one is for melee, the other one is ranged. The combat, because of this is stale and boring. There is no block, there is no dodge, the combat is simply boring. Run around the monsters to avoid their attacks, and click as fast as you can. That is it. The action in this Action game is miserable. There is not much stuff to interact with the semi-open world as well. Everything gameplay-wise is boring.

With the combination of the nice aesthetical art direction, amazing custscene animations (especially the facial expressions of the characters), amazing voice acting, cheezy story and action, and great soundtracks, this could have been an amazing animated movie, a classic possibly. Right now, as it stands, it is just another mediocre game which gaming industry has to offer. Not recommended.

One of the games that had a huge hype before, on the day of and after its release. I remember back in the days when some of my friends were talking about this game with lots of euphoria, shown me the articles about it in the various magazines, and so on. To be honest, there is something great about this game, but the essential part is a complete failure. I will break it down into two columns. I will go with the good quality stuff first. The voice acting is superb. Jack Black, the Jewish guy who wants you to leave Catholicism and Protestantism, and convert to the "religion of Metal", did splendid job with voice acting here. Not a big surprise, as his acting and voice acting skills are always good and convincing. Especially in the role he had in acting for the propaganda piece against Donald Trump and North Korea situation... and in additional, occasional appearances to trash talk his president. Not bad for a left wing "apolitical" actor and a musician... anything for that sweet kosher money. Oh, wait… well, I will move on: The voice acting of other cast is great too. Almost each character in the game has visual appearance in the form of a caricature of the respective voice actors, who are mostly Rock and Heavy Metal music artists as well as professional actors. Some of them include Robert Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Lita Ford among others. The aesthetics of the art direction, combined with great facial animations and splendid voice acting sells the story. The main menu has one of the best user interfaces I have seen, and the game greets you with some good music in the main menu. I was surprised to hear Iced Earth - When The Night Falls, Black Sabbath - Symptom Of The Universe, and Testament - More Than Meets The Eye blasting right when the game starts. The encyclopaedia websites display the list of some great Heavy Metal, Rock, Industrial, Mallcore songs in this game, but unfortunately I did not get a chance listening to them, and I will explain why in the next column. The game has some of the best cutscenes in the gaming industry. The plot is nothing but cheezy, but the delivery is amazing, with the combination of the elements which I have listed earlier. And then, there is the gameplay itself, which is terrible. The game suffers from lots of issues, and there are many. The main character can’t jump, yet it is the Action game. There are two attack buttons, one is for melee, the other one is ranged. The combat, because of this is stale and boring. There is no block, there is no dodge, the combat is simply boring. Run around the monsters to avoid their attacks, and click as fast as you can. That is it. The action in this Action game is miserable. There is not much stuff to interact with the semi-open world as well. Everything gameplay-wise is boring. With the combination of the nice aesthetical art direction, amazing custscene animations (especially the facial expressions of the characters), amazing voice acting, cheezy story and action, and great soundtracks, this could have been an amazing animated movie, a classic possibly. Right now, as it stands, it is just another mediocre game which gaming industry has to offer. Not recommended.