download KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child

Flip the coin over and you've got a title that's likely to be ignored by die-hard gamers who know that these sort of licenses are often a way of hiding utter trash masquerading as entertainment.īut not in this case. On the one hand it's going to sell to die-hard fans who must, simply must, own everything connected to their idols. What's the first thing that comes into your mind? Now that's not very complimentary is it? And if we printed words like that then we'd be taken off the shelves at Will Smiths.īasing a game around rock dinosaurs like Kiss is a risky business. Ready? Ex-Daikatana developers leave Ion Storm and start creating their own first-person shooter based around the exploits of sad supergroupers, Kiss. Overall, Psycho Circus is a sound blaster, fun for its purity, but quickly becoming repetitive for the same reason due to the lack of tactics or variety.Let's have a quick game of word association. Graphically however, they are quite impressive with atmospheric lighting, good textures and nice detail. The levels themselves borrow heavily from the aforementioned classics, with hi-tech corridors sitting uncomfortably alongside circuses and castles which will prove familiar to anyone who has played the likes of Half-life or Unreal. Speaking of which, while there are a few intriguing creatures which display some imagination in their design, most are fairly bland and forgettable and lack any real nightmare qualities. There is no real exploration to be done here, as this is a shooter of the old-school, pure and simple and initially it is great fun knocking down the seemingly endless array of enemies. Players take a journey into a twisted nightmare world of freak shows, steel plants and a demon-infested Hell, blasting everything they meet with the usual array of weapons. If you can get over this, then what you will find is an exhilarating and frantic, but ultimately shallow shooter that doesn't compare too favourably with the classics like Doom or Quake. This rather bizarre first person shooter is based on a comic book by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and despite its name, doesn't really have a lot to do with legendary rock band Kiss.

Download KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child