Video Game Review: Legendary

Overall: [7/10] Legendary is a game that your probably going to pass over, not because it's bad, but just because the timing on the release was poor and there wasn't much hype around it. Lost in the sea of Left 4 Dead, Fallout 3, Fable 2 and Call of Duty: World at War lies this game, but even tho I only spent a week or two with my copy, I will one turn return to finish it, this I know. The game has some interesting mechanics, and the enemy AI is quite intelligent, sometimes annoyingly so heh. Facing enemies such as Gryphons and Minotaurs, while wielding machine guns and fire axes is an interesting experience to say the least.

Story: [9/10] The story for this game is that a rich collector of artifacts wants Pandora's Box, so he hires a thief to get it for me. When the thief opens the box, instead of releasing the "evils of the world" as in the myth, it releases all sorts of mythological creatures. Now he's trying to survive and re-close the box before the creatures completely destroy the world.

Graphics: [9/10] Buildings crumble, rubble is thrown, fire hydrants can be opened, cars are lifted....the graphics are nice in this game. I wouldn't say the graphics are necessarily any better then other 360 games, but what is done with them is better.

Sound: [8/10] The music of the game fits, the downfall is there's not a ton of emphasis on ambient sounds, so there's not a whole ton of build up to things. Instead of "I hear the werewolf...getting closer...where is he?! I can hear him!" you get more "dum de dum dum OH SHIT WEREWOLF SHOOT SHOOT SHOOT!!"

Weapons: [8/10] Legendary has at least 7 weapons, and I'm not sure if I've seen them all. Ranging from pistols, to shotguns, to machine guns and of course a rocket launcher. The usual suspects of weaponry make appearances here. The ability to drain the "essence" of a mythological creature you kill and use the essence to use powers(such as healing or a knock-back wave) is the most unique weapon in the game. Sometimes however you use more life trying to get the essence so you can heal, then the healing actually does. It's times like those you wish for an old fashioned med-pack.

Multiplayer: [?/10] Unfortunatly, with all the other games that came out it's rather hard to get a multiplayer Legendary game going, as such I can't give a fair review on this part. I can say the concept of it sounds intriguing. You play as one of two teams of soldiers, and there are AI werewolves as well. Each team has a generator and the objective is to kill enemy players and werewolves to get "essence" from them and instead of using it for your powers, fill the generator with it. First team to reach X amount of "essence" in the generator wins.