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McFarlane's Evil Prophecy

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While I believe there is a story to this game-something about an end of the world prophecy-it seems all the game creators were interested in was how many times they could get players to fight the same damn monster from one level to the next. And if it weren't for this major downfall, this mindless hack and slash game would actually be a blast to play.

The best part is that you play as a team of four, each with a different special elemental ability. For example, the scientist uses lightning, the Indian uses the wind, the pirate uses fire, and the girl uses...well, guns. By pressing the D pad you can cycle through your team in quick succession. (Sadly, it's only single player; no co-op). The team as a whole shares an energy meter, so one character's Special move depletes every one else's, which makes for some skillful gameplay. The other unique, albeit kind of useless, innovation is the need to "get along" with each other. Each character has sort of friendship HP system that can be raised by performing tag team combos. The more friendly you are, the stronger your attacks. In true RPG fashion, all members can level up by defeating more monsters.

Which brings me back to my opening paragraph. The game throws so many monsters at you, it's takes forever to get through a level. Sometimes you're required to backtrack to find items, again slashing through endless foes. And not different foes mind you, the same foe every time, at least until you defeat that particular enemy's boss. So what you get is two hours of fighting the Wolfman over and over and over. Creature design is pretty cool, as you'd expect from a McFarlane endorsed game, but repetitiveness and clunky camera angles are too much to bear.

Overall, this is for hardcore McFarlane fans only. Barely.

I purchaced McFarlane's Evil Prophecy not really knowing what to expect. I have always loved Konami games since way back in the days of the NES and Contra Castlevania & Blades of Steel, & i also love monster movies so i figured that i would give it a shot. The story mode is a lot of fun, its very similar to Gauntlet. You fight through levels with all 4 charactors. You can also switch between them in game. Each has a specific power , fire, Poison, Electricity & Guns. Each player has a normal attack & they also have a special attack and they also have an airal attack. I also like that the bosses are classic movie monsters wolfman, frankenstein, dracula, voodoo queen & the sea creature). The one problem I have with this game is that you cannot play multi player in the story mode. The multiplayer modes are played in a dungeon type area and you can play with or against the other players. I enjoyed it and i hope you will too

I love hack & slash games! that being said, this is one of the standard hack & slashers out there with fairly bland graphics however if you are just in it for some cheap amusement with some cool graphics (todd's critters are pretty cool looking) nothing truly innovative here but it is fun and distracting. its also pretty violent and goly, which i enjoy. so its not a 5 star masterpiece like diablo 2 was but its pretty good for ps2 and for 10 bucks or less its worth a look.

Graphics: bland on most things Beautiful bosses. 3 1/2 stars
Sound: avg. 3 stars
fun factor: 4 1/2 stars. multiplayer modes with 1 to 4 players and the ability to attack your friends made this go up one more star for me.
Overall rating therefore would be 3 1/2 to 3 3/4 but I was a little more generous since halves aren't in the rating system.
3 to 4 star!
McFarlane's Evil Prophecy