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When I was a kid, and I saw the promo materials for this movie...my first thought was, �Hey,
they made a movie about Sting!� Should tell you something about my interests. I watched
more wrestling than movies, so...nope. Never saw The Crow. Fast forward about 15 years,
and here we are. I�m playing The Crow: City of Angels.
And my first thought was, �Hey, they made a game about Sting!�
Obviously, that�s not Sting. That�s a guy named Ashe, or something. The dude was
murdered, and of course, thanks to supernatural crows...he comes back to life. As the six-time
WCW heavyweight champion. Only in this game, he doesn�t waste his time with submission
moves. He just bashes people in the face, with...crowbars.
Lucky Earl Hebner�s not around. That�s an easy DQ.
So from what I understand, City of Angels follows the movie pretty closely. You�re
a zombie, basically. Back from the dead. Speaking of dead things, you don�t see many games
that play like this anymore. It�s basically the old Resident Evil setup, where pushing
up on the control stick...actually means going whichever direction you�re facing. Not up.
I would love to meet the guy who thought that was a good idea.
I�d slap him in a submission hold. Freaking jabroni.
So the game plays like a clunky mess. And it�s not even a matter of preference. I
mean, I know some people actually like these tank controls, but City of Angels doesn�t
even do them well. Like, it�s objectively bad. We�re talking laughably slow. You have
to turn your character, to face your enemies, before trying to hit them. With fixed camera
angles, that make things even harder to judge.
Man, 1997 was the worst.
First ReLoad, then this.
Basically, all you�re doing is beating people up and moving on. There�s nothing to do
beyond that. The environments are pretty empty, and things get boring within minutes. And
again, it�s not just outdated game design. I mean, it�s that...plus really bad game
design. And the reviews this thing got, even back then, kind of prove it.
Bad games are bad games. And when they�re bad and outdated, they�re The Crow: City
of Angels.