Friday 14 March 2008

Legendary

Here's an interesting game well into production - Legendary: The Box (or simply Legendary).

From Wikipedia:
'When tasked to break into a museum and steal Pandora's Box, master thief Charles Deckard inadvertently opens the box and unleashes evil on the world. In the process of opening the box, Deckard receives strange powers allowing him to defeat the creatures that have emerged in the aftermath of the box's opening. Using these powers Deckard fights alongside a clandestine organization against both the monsters that have been released and an occult group who seek to tap into the power of the box for their own selfish ends.'

The provocative reference to 'titans' in the publicity is probably a slip, but perhaps the giant monster made out of debris and wrecked vehicles is supposed to be a Titan. That would be great. As usual, the definition of 'legendary' is extended to include monsters such as griffins and werewolves which originated in antiquity, but only became popular much later. The gun-battle with a Minotaur is hilarious, so I recommend that, but here's the far more 'cinematic' trailer video, in all its sound and fury:



Unfortunately, this is a big-budget game and therefore covers well-worn ground. Shadowy urban locations full of rain and neon, plus a protagonist called Deckard? Sounds like Blade Runner to me. And the gameplay footage shows it to be yet another of the countless Gears Of War clones being churned out lately, which are all full of lantern-jawed squaddies in futuristic body-armour, milling around amid explosions, shouting things like 'Explosive shells - hell yeah' and 'Damn baby, I blew its legs off'.

Sad face.

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