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Hellboy: The Science of Evil
Review date: 05.09.2008
Our rating:
At first, Hellboy seems like it’s going to be a lot of fun. Ron Perlman reprises his role as the grumpy, red demon, the snippets of dialogue are fairly amusing, and the combat gives plenty of opportunity to beat-up little bad guys in humorous ways. Unfortunately, the gameplay proves repetitive very quickly, and the story is vague and pointless.
Given more time, we reckon Krome Studios could have produced a decent Hellboy game. After-all, they’ve got the comic’s atmosphere and look bang-on. The problem is that in the rush to get this out at the same time as the film, there doesn’t seem to have been any opportunity to produce a decent story or any real gameplay variety. Go on chaps, get started on the next one now.