Customer Reviews

Ed Hunter

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

This was a great move by the best metal band in the world. The game is my new favorite video game. It is one of the few games that is so great, that just the opening sequence blows your mind. The option to choose your choice of tracks for the levels is cool to. The control is good. My first concern was "Is the control with the mouse going to be bad"? No, the control is very good even with the mouse. The levels are great, very detailed, long, and fairly hard. The whole concept of the game is great. This videogame is everything a video game should be. The songs on the discs are good too. Includes most of my favorites. Although I do wish "flight of Icarus" and "Can I Play With Madness" were on there. I wish there was more stuff off of "Seventh son of a Seventh son", but I guess that's just my opinion because the songs on there were voted in that order to be Maiden's top 20 best songs by fans over the internet so all in all it is probably the closest you could ever get to a true Greatest Hits. The new version of "Wrathchild " is awesome. Great to hear Bruce back with the boys. "Ed Hunter" is perfect and I strongly recomend it to anyone. Maiden fans will love it. But even if you have never heard Maiden before, you will still not regret getting this. Playing the game will get you into the music, listening to the music, will get you into the game. Do yourself a favor and go get "Ed Hunter" now!

The song rock, the game is realy cool too, its a realy cool shooter, its a chalenging game so if you like games you actualy have to try to beat you should like 'ed hunter'!

These are the top songs as voted by fans on the official Iron Maiden webpage. I find it a little hard to believe that "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" did not find it's way here. I guess Maiden fans have varying tastes.

Now for the game, which is the reason most people buy this. Why else would you buy it? Most Maiden fans have these songs from the original albums, plus Maiden is getting up there with KISS and Ozzy Osbourne in the race of most "greatest hits" albums.

The game itself is fun, and not too difficult. It's a first person shoot 'em up, but unlike Doom, you only control the gun site. All walking and turning is done for you. On to the levels.

The Underground - This is a cool level. You walk down 22 Acacia Avenue with a detour through the subway. It's fun to shoot the punks with the green mohawks. Espescially when they throw bottles, bricks, and axes at you.

The Asylum - Very cool and funny. You have to give the patients a head shot or they'll continue to throw deadly teddy bears at you.

Hell - This is a stage I just want to pass. It gets a little annoying shooting the flying devil over and over again. This is my least favorite stage. It just seems to take forever.

The grave yard - With shot gun in hand you blast the zombies who throw intestines and brains at you

Egyptian Crypt - Pretty cool. The mummies get up after being shot once, so you got a lot of mouse clicking to do on this one. Head shots make their heads fly off. Get the big gun, because the 9 mil will take all day.

The future - Right off the album cover of 'Somewhere in Time' we walk through a futuristic society, shooting soldiers and green women with great bodies. ...

The finale - Ok here we shoot derelicts and skinless humans. Pass them all and you encounter the four horsemen of the apocolypse.

The ending - An experienced player can complete this game in an hour and a half or so. It is the biggest letdown of the game to win. All you get is Eddide coming out of the wall with his 'Somewhere in Time' getup. He throws a ball at you and you watch yourself going backwards throw the game until you get to the very beginning where you started. That's it! Just add your initials. You get more of a story when you die and you're on the cover of the newspaper. I would play this game a lot more if the ending wasn't such a disappointment.

PS - Watch in the game where you get to shoot the heads of band members. They are worth an extra continue.

Obviously, no band's "best of" compilation is going to satisfy every one of their fans. This is especially true when it comes to Iron Maiden, whose every song seems to be one fan's favorite yet some other fan's least favorite. So how do you make the fairest compilation?

In 1998 Iron Maiden took a poll, asking all fans to go to ironmaiden.com and vote for their favorite Iron Maiden songs. Any song from any of their albums was elligable. The top 20 results were taken to make up the audio portion of ED HUNTER. And as if that wasn't enough, the band then proceeded with a tour in support of ED HUNTER, with a setlist based exclusively on these 20 songs! I find it beyond refreshing to see a band dare to do such a thing, in light of so many who haven't changed their setlist in decades (AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, etc.), or refuse to acknowledge cult favorites entirely (Van Halen with "Fair Warning", Def Leppard with "On Through The Night", etc.). But anyway, back to ED HUNTER. Quite simply, you have no right to complain about the choice of songs here: Iron Maiden did their best to compile what the fans wanted. Oddly enough, the songs span the catalog well, with at least one song featured from all 11 of their studio albums released up to that time.

The CDs work normal as audio CDs, but taking up most of the data on that second disc is the ED HUNTER cd-rom game. It's a pretty straight forward shoot-everybody-on-the-screen type of game. Each level's graphics are based on enviroments from Iron Maiden album covers, with one of their songs playing in the background. But you can't save your place, so once you're dead, it's back to square one! It was a simple idea to make the game more difficult, and I think here it works. If you're looking for some state of the art game, I'm sure there are plenty of newer games that appeal more to the general crowds. I wouldn't give this game in and of itself 5 stars. But if you want to see Eddie and those albums of your youth come to life right in front of your eyes, then this is the game to get.

I've been listining to Maiden for years it's some of their best materal yet

This is a must-have album for any fan of hard rock/metal. All the songs are classics. Even if you are a tride and true Maiden fan, you gotta get it anyway for the game. The game itself is like "House of the Dead," but with much better music. Each level is based on a Maiden song and has that song playing in the background. The only problem I have with the game itself is that if you want to play great and don't want to break your mouse, you're gonna have to invest some money in a light gun. Even so, the package as a whole is 100 times worth the price. So get it before Ed Hunter gets you!

I think that Iron Maiden will always be one of the top heavy metal bands of all time.This is definetly the Top 20 Maiden tracks, although i think they should have made a Top 25 because I think maiden has alot more great songs that have lasted through the years like "Flight of Icarus", "The Evil that men do", and "the Clairvoyant".They ruled the metal scene of the 80's along with other groups like Judas Priest, but they can be singled out because of their unique rough based

sound and wild vocals of both Dickinson and Di'Anno both in their respective eras with the band.Overall this is a great way to start a collection of maiden albums, that is if this album wasn't enough for you. Let maiden up the irons in the new millennium with their classical headbanging music, firmly demonstrated by their 2000 release of Brave new World.

I very much enjoy every single song on both cds. This was the first Iron Maiden cd I ever bought, and if you don't like it, you get a video game with it. I haven't played the game so I don't know if thats any good or not. "Hallowed Be Thy Name" is my favorite song of them all. It is also one of my favorite songs in general. It is missing a few Maiden classics, but, you can't possibly put all of their classics into just a few cds.

Hey, if you can get this used for cheap, go for it. Having two hours of classic Maiden on two CDs is pretty cool indeed. I really don't need to elaborate too much . . . these are all fantastic songs from one of the very best metal bands ever.

The game is a somewhat simple first person shooter. It's kind of fun. Again, if you can get the package cheap, it's worth it. It's not the best first person shooter, but it's ok.

This CD comes across as two things to the Iron Maiden fan. First and foremost it's a Greatest Hits; the songs were supposedly chosen on the band's website a few years back. Many classic Maiden songs like Hallowed Be Thy Name and Powerslave are here; however longtime fan fave Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, among others, are not included, which lends many classic Maiden fans the assumption that no such vote was ever held. (Or maybe nobody heard about it - I didn't!)

Second, it's a game and a bad one at that. It's a second rate House Of The Dead (one of Sega's more miniscule accomplishments IMHO). You cannot control your movement - only what you shoot. The game is so pathetic that you find yourself losing because of boredom of shooting people before they shoot you. One drawback is that you cannot save in the middle of a mission - only between levels. The ending is not very rewarding, either. One cool thing about the game is that, ahead of time, you can choose which Ed Hunter song plays during each level. The drawback to this is that that song loops over and over and over.

The music is all right if incomplete and the game is a waste of space on your computer, but if you're a longtime fan and collector, or if you want a decent preview of Iron Maiden as a "new" fan, you should check it out if you can pick it up cheap, otherwise, just wait for an official "Greatest Hits" package. Sadly, Iron Maiden isn't at their peak and the really good Greatest Hits packages come, as we all know, when the record label just wants to milk more money from the band's name.

Peace.