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Clive bastards Jericho , 22 April 2008
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Clive Barker's Jericho
on Xbox 360
(2007)
Certificate: 
ok.......i played the demo, which was ok, so i though might as well rent it....although my first choice was conan....
I generally dont stick to critics reviews of games since their normally all paid to have a certain opinion and back the most hyped games cough gears of war cough cough
it starts of well, it looks beautiful, has the voice of Spike Speagal (cowboy Bebop) as the main fella, when i say it looks beautiful im generally referring to the characters, not the grey/brown level designs which are all the fashion nowadays. for realisms since we all know what we see isnt real colours, its our eyes playing tricks on us, everything is really grey/brown.
anyway, not to spoil the game for anyone who decides to play this, but you play as a crack team of occult marines, titled the Jericho team, who are sent out by the government (whos government we dont know, but since their all american we can only presume) to hunt down evil doers. Now the evil doers start off moderately cool, you have really fast stabby demon guy and chase you and explode giant demon guy. but this is only the first level. when you progress to the second level you have to face the same enemies as before but they decided to throw in some new ones.......giant minigun arm demon guy and flame thrower arm demon guy (because we all know that demons have guns instead of arms) which totally takes away the horror of the game, we also have to face the psychic nazi ninja demon woman.
Believe it or not i couldnt actually bring myself to play anymore, i beat the psychic ninja nazi and just got bored, the game didnt capture my attention, the AI being totally retarded didnt help things along, i mean come on.....your guys just run and hope for the best. people have said its an excellent strategic game, but picking the guy with the biggest power to kill things isnt strategic.
certain aspects of the game seem to be an irritation and a hindrance more than adding to strategy, like the having to heal your retards when they get shot, which you have to do, cause eventually you will die, and when you do your not going to be able to swap to any spare bodies, cause their all dead. This supposedly amazing gameplay feature seems o have come from Gears of war, i know people love this game and frequently play with themselves while they watch marcus run about shooting things in his exceedingly brown land of aliens. the only game i have managed to enjoy this feature in is Rainbow six vegas, where you have control over your partners instead of run and stop commands.
since all im doing is moaning at the game im going to stop and end with this.....to me Clive Barkers Jericho is no more than an even browner more boring and generally even crapper version of gears of war.....with demons instead of aliens and with a different view.
Wouldnt recommend it to anyone.
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