VAN HELSING

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– Game Review By Peter Edwards

Introduction

Shortly after the awful movie Van Helsing was released, a game adaptation was released let’s hope it will be better than the film.

Story

Van Helsing is a man who is on a mission from god to destroy evil. Along the way he fights Mr Hyde, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster and ultimately Dracula. The game follows quite closely to the film one worthy inclusion though is a bit of background story on Van Helsing which is not the theatrical release. There are cut scenes before every level which run parallel to the movie but often they are somewhat shorter and often missing characters from the film.

Gameplay

The important bit, despite what I thought of the film I did enjoy the way that it played, it was extremely easy to pick up. It is very similar to Devil May Cry but this can only be a good thing as D.M.C was an extremely good game. You start off with handguns an Game Review By Peter Edwards

Introduction

Shortly after the awful movie Van Helsing was released, a game adaptation was released let’s hope it will be better than the film.

Story

Van Helsing is a man who is on a mission from god to destroy evil. Along the way he fights Mr Hyde, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster and ultimately Dracula. The game follows quite closely to the film one worthy inclusion though is a bit of background story on Van Helsing which is not the theatrical release. There are cut scenes before every level which run parallel to the movie but often they are somewhat shorter and often missing characters from the film.

Gameplay

The important bit, despite what I thought of the film I did enjoy the way that it played, it was extremely easy to pick up. It is very similar to Devil May Cry but this can only be a good thing as D.M.C was an extremely good game. You start off with handguns and Tojo blades later on in the game you can get more enhanced weapons like the shotgun and the bow gun both seen in the film. There is a rather nice evasive roll that you can do which is reminiscent of D.M.C, one thing that is unique however is the grapple hook you can make use of this to start combos or to perform grappling jumps. Overall a big plus point.

Graphics

The graphics are pretty good the backgrounds all look good, as do the cut scenes. Unfortunately Van Helsing in the game doesn’t look very similar to Van Helsing in the film.

Sound

I didn’t take much notice to the sound but from what I heard it seemed ok nothing spectacular or anything particuarly bad.

Conclusion

A very sound game there are a lot of things going for it namely the gameplay, unfortunately there isn’t much replay value to this.

7/10
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