This game is fun and is surprisingly great.
Published by: Bethesda
Developed by: inXile
Platform: Xbox 360
Rated: Mature
Released: May 31, 2011
Visuals:
The visuals in Hunted: The Demon's Forge are quite interesting and in fact I did like the visual style of this game it had a great mix of old school looks to it with some new school flavor in with the Gothic art style which I thought looked excellent and now this game did have some minor issues and frame rate problems but they were very minor and I did have the game installed to my hard drive. The detail to the character's were quite intriguing and the looks of the two main character's were not that bad and I'm not talking about what they were wearing and in fact the detail on the character's were good during the gameplay and it had an old school look in that part and during the cut scene with the main character's looked just good with the new school look in the cut scene's and so the detail to the two playable character's and even all the non-playable-Character's all looked great in the cut scenes. The detail to the the environments and the level design looked amazing and I personally loved the Gothic look to the art style of the level design it just suited this game visual style it was just great to look at. So in short the visual for this game was just great to look at and was just simply amazing.
Audio:
The audio for Hunted: The Demon's Forge is just great from the sound effects of the the sword play, from the musical score and even the voice acting was great.So I 'll start with the sound effects of the sword play and every thing else with sound effects and the the sound's of two swords clanging together was just great and actually sounded like two swords clanging together or even well the only thing that did not sound good was when a sword got blocked by a shield weather it was you character's or on of the enemies and in fact the sounds of the kinda sounded like the sword was getting blocked by some card board but that was the only thing that I did not like in the sound effect depart of this game. The musical score for this game was just amazing and it went well with this game during some battle's and even made some of the boss battle's feel really epic and that was great. The voice acting for this game was excellent the voice acting was just great for the main character's of this game and even the rambling's from some of the NPC's in the game so they can try to get your character's attention so you can save them while you are on you quest. So in short for the audio on this game is that it is just superb and great.
Game-play:
Now the game-play for Hunted: The Demon's Forge was just fun and great and it did have some problems with the combat mechanics. I start with some of the bad that was it the combat in this game and that is with the sword play and at time the sword play felt a little clunky at time's and with some of the weapons that you can pick up through out the game and some of the weapon's that you are able to pick up will tell you if it is a light, medium or even a heavy swing and that basically tells if the is going to give you a nice furry attack and so depending on what kind of weapon you are wielding the combat might feel a little cluncky and heavy at time's and at other time's it will just fell smooth, but to me at time's it did feel a bit clunky, so the combat is not as bad as it seem's but it can get a little tedious at time's. Now despite some of tedious sword play can the use of the cross bow with Caddoc and the bow and arrow's with E'lara be just as tedious well playing with the bow with E'lara was great but it some problems except when you charged her arrow's up with some magic and it got you out of some sticky situation's and the cross bow of Caddoc's it worked fine but not well enough but Caddoc is the character the does not really need to use that weapon and so the combat system with the cross bow and the bow is good but it has some clunky as well. So now I'll just talk about the some of the good in this game and that is this game has an excellent story and other than the story their was some thing about this game that just made me not wanna put it down I just don't what it is and this game keep you playing for some time,but it might keep you playing for many more hours with mode called crucible which is basically a level creator where from all the gold you collected through out the game that can unlock creature's, weapons and so forth so you can build you own level's so you can play on your self and even share it with people on line which is pretty cool and with that added to the game it can give replay value and that's a good thing. So in short with the gameplay for this game is that it does have replay value and with that said this game is fun and simply great.
Overall:
Now the overall point for this game is with an excellent visual art style and give this game some nice graphics, with out standing audio and with excellent voice work and a great musical score and gameplay with a great story and decent combat mechanic's this game is worth checking out and if you are not sure you can at least rent it first before you buy, but this game is worth buying. So go and check this game out.
8.5 out of 10