Played Demo... impressed. Bought game... depressed.

User Rating: 4.6 | Archangel (2002) PC
The game's demo was very entertaining. However, once I bought the game, I realized there really isn't much more to it. There aren't many more enemy types than what you find in the demo, and the demo pretty much shows you all of the weapons that you will have available to you. The gameplay is pretty linear although they try to hide it somewhat by more or less letting you go where you please, but of course where you please is somewhat limited by the game's linear layout. Also quite annoying is the fact that there is no autosave function in-game. I played for quite some time through an annoying cave-maze which is quite monotonous because it all looks the same (with the same enemies too), but my game came to an abrupt halt when I accidentally stepped a foot in a small "lava creek." I barely touched it and move back on land before losing any health, but my character somehow caught his entire body on fire and was immediately burned to death after I took about five steps away from the lava. Also annoying is that most of the "boss" enemies look exactly alike expect that maybe their color is different. I played for about two hours and lost interest pretty quickly after that. Reply value of this game is very poor.