Cyanide Studios: Epic Failure, insert another quarter and try again. Dreamcatcher: Shame on you, for rushing this beta

User Rating: 4.5 | Loki PC
I am a HUGE fan of this hack n' slash genre, I have played all the titles out there. I would rank this game on par with Dungeon Lords that shipped a few years back.

Game is buggy, and not stable. Had 3 patches within first month of going retail, which would indicate the studio knew it was not ready for release to consumers. Video in game is hitchy, and lacks polish seen in other titles in the hack n' slash genre. Uses intrusive DRM: Starforce, which I wouldn't mind if this was actually a decent game. This is all extremely frustrating when you start to realize the lengths the publisher took, to protect this game from pirates, when they would of had a hard enough time selling it to begin with.

I took away two thoughts about this game:

#1 Cyanide Studios has no money to attract talent to make quality games

#2 Dreamcatcher publishes games that are not ready for retail, and then lock them up tight with intrusive DRM, which is anti-consumer.

*This is the first and last Cyanide Studio title I purchase