Infernal

by Eidos

Product Features

• Software Sub Type: Action/Adventure Game
• Software Name: Infernal
• ESRB Rating: M (Mature 17+)
• Platform Support: PC
• PC DVD-ROM Software

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NUQQZ0
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches ; 8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: April 24, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,030 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

In the eternal war between good and evil...hellwants you! Product InformationYou are Ryan Lennox a renegade angel recruited by Hell to restore the balancebetween Good and Evil.  Etherlight Heaven's own secret agency haseliminated most of Hell's earthly agents and is preparing its final blow againstits eternal rival.  Armed with diabolic supernatural powers and militarygrade weaponry; enter a dangerous world of deception and betrayal and unleashHell on Earth.Product Features State of the Art Technology - Real life physics.  Bodies react and crumple accurately and objects recoil to being shot pushed or blown up. Diabolic Powers - Use telekinesis teleportation and invisibility.  Heal yourself by absorbing the life energy of your fallen enemies. Artificial Intelligence - Fight intelligent opponents that use the environment to their advantage and coordinate attacks. Weaponry - Rain hellfire on Earth with military grade weaponry. Intense Gameplay - Balls out gunplay puzzles and computer hacking will immerse you even deeper in the internal action.Minimum Requirements Windows 2000 XP Pentium IV 1.7 GHz or equivalent processor 512 MB of RAM 2 GB free Hard Drive space DirectX 9.0c compliant cards supporting pixel shader 2.0 (Nvidia GeForce 5950 / ATI Radeon 9600 or better) DirectX compatible Sound Card 4x DVD-ROM drive Keyboard Mouse

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A fun way to kill an hour or two., June 26, 2007

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Deinabo D. George "DDG" (Bronx, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Infernal (DVD-ROM)

Infernal won't win any awards in the innovation department but it's a very good-looking shooter that adds enough hooks to keep you interested for a few hours. You're Ryan Lennox, a fallen angel looking for work when your recruited by Satan himself to take out various enemies.

The title comes from the power bestowed upon you by the Devil. After killing an enemy you can recharge your character's health by absorbing him in dramatic fashion. That alone is worth the price of admission. I haven't finished the game yet but anyone looking for a decent shooter should definitely check out Infernal. It's enjoyable, looks good, and is fun to play.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Infernally boring, June 24, 2009

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Media Man (Minneapolis, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Infernal (DVD-ROM)

In the 3rd person shooter Infernal, you play as Ryan Lennox, a former agent of Heaven who recently joined the forces of Hell. I had this game sitting on my shelf for a while before I finally decided to play through it. I can honestly say I wasn't missing much. While I finished it I found it a struggle to want to do so. I quickly lost interest in the game by the end of the first mission.

PROS:

+ Graphics. They were quite nice overall. However like so many shooters the sky and background was a solid unmoving sheet.

+ Enemy AI was ok. However they were still stupid enough most times to come and find you instead of staying behind cover and firing at you.

CONS:

- Voice acting was bad all around. All of the lines were unemotional and delivered verbatim as if read for the first time from a script. The main character and his female spy assistant were by far the worst.

- The music was utterly painful! There was no atmospheric music (something I really enjoy), there was only cheesy, repetitive action guitar rock. My most hated kind. Now I know many younger players might enjoy the cliche driven angst rock while they're shooting things up but I however do not. Good action music in a game is essential for me and this game definitely DID NOT have it. Simply awful.

- Hell based powers were boring, uninspired and hardly useful. The only I really used from time to time (if I remembered) was the charged shot. The planar vision felt added on for lack of a better idea and the teleportation was simply awful in every way. I absoluted hated when I had to use it to accomplish an objective.

- Bland level design. The only level that was sort of interesting was aboard the aircraft carrier.

- Ho hum bosses and boring battles, especially the end boss.

- Friendly AI was awful. What little there was with the female character in the game I basically wanted to shoot her (which sadly you can't, trust me I tried). She prattled non stop saying, "Come on Ryan, we don't have much time. Hurry Ryan." Very annoying when you're trying to explore and or are low on health/ammo and searching for power ups. She was constantly getting shot and in the way while always saying, "I'll cover you" then stand there and do nothing while enemies were trying to fill you full of holes.

- Poor jumping/falling and cover mechanics. You could barely if at all jump over or climb on top of a crate. Also you could fall off of an 8' scaffolding and die instantly. Taking cover was cumbersome and always a chore.

- Searching enemies became more of a chore than a necessity. You could draw life from enemies to heal yourself and you could get ammo from them. However most of the time I just needed the ammo not the health. Unfortunately you couldn't pick what you wanted (at least not that I figured out). So basically I was wasting taking health from enemies just for the ammunition. A seperate key for each would have been nice.

There are more things I could go on about regarding this game but it's really not worth it. I really wanted to like this game but just couldn't. Would I recommend it to a friend? Definately not.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Infernal ignites the action, but is extinguished by issues, January 16, 2008

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R. Stevens "Fedora Technologies" (USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Infernal (DVD-ROM)

Hey, Gang! Tellurye is going to break it down for you. As owner of Fedora Technologies (www.fedoratech.com) we get access to lots of goodies. I decided to give this game a little dance, and what stands our company out is, yes I give you my opinion, but I will also state facts - this helps the user decide on whether they want to buy it. Not just "its good" or "bad", but also why and what you get. So let me sum up.

STORY: Set in the future, where the battle between Heaven and hell rages on. Corporations are ruling with an iron fist, either on one side or the other. They deploy opposing agents to battle it out to maintain control, whether it be good or evil, depending upon their allegiance. Fortunately, the Ethereal corporations are winning - crushing pretty much all of the Devil's agents. You play as Ryan Lennox, a fallen Angel kicked off Heaven's team (not too clear why, other than the fact you are quite brash and brazen sometimes) and kill time looking for employment; disgruntled. You're chillin' with a colleague at an upscale bar downtown, when Heaven's agents descend on the establishment and try and kill you....just as she was going to share a secret with you. When you escape, Satan approaches you (dressed in a black pinstripe suit, true to form) and gives you extraordinary powers if you do him a little favor. From there, you are given several missions to complete as you annihilate the agents of the "good" corporation. Nothin like workin for the devil.

Of course, I was a little taken by this as I did want it to be sacrilegious. If you were going around killing priests or destroying churches, then I'd have a major problem with this game. But its nothing like it. The baddies you kill are just regular humans working for the "Good" based corporations. And, not giving away the plot, but just cause a corporations are on Heaven's side, doesn't mean they are good. It's a setting where the corporations - all of them - are evil anyway, telling you how to run your life - similar to the recent game Time Shift, or movies like Equilibrium, Blade Runner, or Running Man. The first level, you are in a monastery. I think I saw one cross in the beginning, but I didn't see any religious symbols during the gun battles, so that shouldn't bother any of you. And the monks there are hardly the religious kind, as they run a vast computer system to monitor and house technology that does even more controlling of lay people. The rest of the levels are industrial, warehouses, shipyard docks and other locales. In fact, if it wasn't for the story told to you, you would think there was no religious base to this game at all.

GRAPHICS and SOUND: OMG!! This is the most gorgeous game I've seen in a long time. What will stand out the most is the volumetric lighting. A perfect example is when you are in a warehouse, and rays of light cut through the large open area. The detail is so great you can even see the dust particles in the beams of light as well! The level design is intuitive and jam packed full of items - not just a random chair or desk here or there. The sound is pretty decent - though the different punk rock music that plays during a battle can be reminiscent of Quake 2. Nothing new here. The sounds of weaponry shooting and reloading is pretty cool, but nothing you haven't heard before.

The cutscenes are done with decent writing, but VERY lame acting. The characters sound like they are just reading the lines. Even Lennox's pithy one-liners or comebacks are not done with the sarcasm its meant to be. They probably didn't even hire actors for this....probably used their own in house developers who have no people skills at all. Don't get me wrong, sometimes the best actors are lay people who have no desire to be actors and are quite natural. However, the folks they used sound like they are bored out of their mind...which doesn't help a typical 3rd person shooter game like this.

GAMEPLAY: The gameplay is a typical 3rd person shooter, with controls similar to Max Payne. Its very responsive aiming wise, and you do have a cool defensive maneuver. However, the cover system is counterintuitive as it makes you more vulnerable than if you ran around just ducking. If you flatten up against the wall, you can aim your crossairs so that when you step out, you are dead on the bad guy. Problem is, Lennox's reaction time using this technique is so slow, he makes grandma move like Jackie Chan. There is a noticeable delay when popping out and back in for cover, that the enemies have time to put a few rounds in you. It makes more sense to just stand or crouch behind cover. The bosses are challenging, and the puzzles are pretty darn creative - though it may take you a while to figure out what the heck you are supposed to do on some of them. But some are unique. I got frustrated in a few areas on medium level, but I think that's cause of me, not necessarily unfair AI. There's hardly any option for stealth - you may run into a guard or two who has his back towards you. Unrealistic, seeings how you are one guy, I don't think making a bunch of noise or calling attention to yourself like Brittany Spears is such a good idea. But hey...I guess disgruntled fallen angels want attention too.

I only ran into an issue where I had everything I needed to advance, but the trigger wouldn't work for me (opening the door to get on a train). Research on the net lists just about every person has this issue. I never found a fix other than going back to several earlier saved games until I found one that worked. On the forums, there are TONS OF COMPLAINTS. Most are having issues graphically, in general, or freezing crashing...even on XP. I never experienced these issues, however. I'm not sure if the newer CDs were updated, but I can find no patch that was released for this game. Does it just work on my system, or did they fix them in the later copies? Also, the FORUM even has problems. I couldn't even join the darn thing! So, I'm glad I didn't really have terrible issues; stands to reason I wouldn't get any support anyway. And posts from other users ripping on this game and being unable to contact and / or get any email or call back from support is just overwhelming. I think the developers have turned their back on this project.

Its such a shame, as this game shows so much promise. It definitely could have been the sleeper hit of the year. The graphics are phenomenal, story - semi-unique, gameplay -basic. However, marred with bugs, problems, poor delivery and no support, it's a waste of the developers and publishers talents, and a waste of gamers time.

I gave this a medium rating, which is WAY more than anyone else did, only because this game worked for the most part for me, and I could advance in areas where stuck (either on puzzles or thru the bugs). So I would stay away from this one. And even if you still want it, I would download the demo and make sure it works (that's what I did before even installing the full game) and I would SO wait till this dropped to $20...and that may be a stretch depending on your tastes and patience. Save this game for when your woman is out of town or you are sick / rainy day - I wouldn't plan any gaming time for it. With so many other choices out there (Like El Matador - now that they fixed most of the bugs with the patch), there are other 3rd person shooters that are more worthy of your attention.

Hope this helps, contact me with any questions!

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