Namco Bandai’s God of War knock-off “Clash of the Titans” has been the subject of sustained criticism for its many failings, combining as it does both the total lack of creativity Namco Bandai is becoming a byword for, and the horror of a game based on a Hollywood movie.
The game:
The movie has giant scorpions:
The game is unsurprisingly faring badly in reviews:
From God of War, the spectre of which inevitably hovers over this mythological copycat, to the sublime Bayonetta and even the dumb-but-fun Dante’s Inferno, there simply isn’t room in the limited confines of the hackandslash genre for a wonky also-ran like this.
3/10
And this for a game which Bandai projected sales of 700,000 for…
Being both a cheap God of War cash in and a Hollywood movie tie-in probably doomed the game from inception, but that only makes Namco Bandai’s reasons for releasing it even more mystifying – surely by now they must realise their shoddy cloning efforts only result in commercial failure, and that movie-based games are almost universally awful has been known for decades.
if the gameplay is like GoW im guna buy it. thanks for telling me sankaku xD
I think this game did a great job in following GoW. They’re both suck
God of War itselt was a ripoff of MediEvil por the PS1. Being ‘inspired’on a different game does not make it automatically bad. Everything else, however, does.
“Almost any game based on a movie is bound to fail.”
looking forward to transformers, the game, coming soon.
That’s one movie I just won’t even watch.
Too many childhood memories. Yeah, I wasn’t fooled for a second that HarryHausen’s creatures weren’t stop motion dolls projected into an existing movie by a trick of light/camera. There was so much love in that movie, versus a formulaic spewing for more $ ruining people’s childhood memories for a “Safe Bet”.
If the studios want to just vomit a “Hack” to seperate people from their cash, they should just do a “Hackwork” without molesting any classic story people don’t want done again without “Lord of the Rings” treatment.
I mean, tons of “Dumb but entertaining hack work” they could do.
Like how ’bout the promised sequel of “The Sword and the Sorcerer”?
They could probably make it for way less than the original one counting modern effects. And just fill it full of exaggerated barbarians, ridiculous swords and fantasy magick, lusty bar wenches, torture chambers, campy CG monsters, etc… And the standards would be so low, even Hollywood would have trouble smashing them, as long as they DID NOT make it “PC”…