Third-person shooters for the PC? Are they still alive? Well, that depends...
Ok, Infernal is a third person shooter about a guy called Lennox who is an angel assassin that got fired. And yes, as you might expect, the devil wants him to join the hell corporation.He does agree and that's pretty much the whole story. Throughout the game you'll just doing what the devil tells you via satellite phone. The graphics and sound in this game are really spectacular. They are pretty much what makes the game worth the time spent. Graphics are smooth and bright, especially the character models look great. There may be a couple of goofs in the backgrounds, but aside from that the graphics really are a pleasure to watch. The music is also very good. It's not playing all the time, just some heavy sounding metal guitars kick in when you shoot somebody, but they are really cool guitars, not like in the old games, where it was just one sampled riff on loop. And did I say shooting somebody? Well, that brings us to the most important thing in every game: gameplay.
After seeing how good it looks and hearing how good it sounds, your heard is getting smashed into a concrete wall by the gameplay. And I do not mean that in the good way, unfortunately. The gameplay is just simply boring. You run straight forward and shoot people. That's all there is to it. This is the sad part, that this game is almost completely ruined by the gameplay. You run and shoot a pistol. Everybody seem to die after a couple of shots and then you have to eat their souls to restore health and gain items. May sound cool, but its really a pace killer. You get a couple of guns to shoot, nothing that special, and a couple of devilish powers to use, which are probably the most interesting part of the gameplay. Sometime you'll have to destroy a turret with a hell shot, sometimes you'll have to teleport through the lasers... neato. Basically this game is a great idea that somebody just didn't have the love for to make it be great. The graphics and sounds are cool, I admit, but that's a bit too little to make the game worth the time and money. I mean, there must be something more to a girl than just her good looks and nice voice to make her desireable, right? Same with games. The game does not really carry any value with it, it's just another game that could have been good. And it's a shame, because it was such a great idea. I say don't bother getting this unless you really have the $$ to spare and are bored out of your mind.