PlayStation

Nightmare Creatures

Nightmare Creatures is hacking and slashing at it's best - kind of a Streets of Bloody Rage for the '90s. With it's speedy gameplay and fast moving enemy interaction, not to mention the intense, creepy nature of the backgrounds, Nightmare Creatures is sure to haunt your dreams for months to come.

Depois de Final Fantasy VII, a consola da Sony recebe mais uma aventura de grande qualidade, que entusiasmará mais os progenitores do que as crianças. Jogo sério, complexo, este Pesadelo é um desafio ao susto e um estímulo à inteligência.

In a cross between Resident Evil and Fighting Force, Nightmare Creatures thrusts players into the incredibly dark and gory world of 19th century London. Taking the role of either Ignatius the monk or the sword-wielding Nadia, the gamer faces a fight to the finish against an array of monsters, which appear in a variety of 3D environments filled to the brim with monsters. Nightmare Creatures does an excellent job of combining tension and evil with the fighting technique of weapon based fighters such as Soul Blade.

Nightmare Creatures is a fun game that is comically gory. Despite a few frustrating levels and a couple of blocky characters, it's a jolly diversion and a chilling ride. Grab your weapon and steel your nerve, there are monsters out there.

Nightmare Creatures fuses the combat elements of top fighting games with the fully explorable environment of adventure games. Unleash unstoppable combos, use incredible weapons and special moves, and find hidden objects.

This could have been a game of the year candidate. It is definitely one of the most original games you will play and it is worth a rental just to see the cool monsters. I was disappointed in the difficulty and camera angle problems because it took away from the fun a bit. It was frustrating that the monsters could block with their backs but you couldn't. All in all, if you are up for a serious challenge and love horror stuff, you will really enjoy this game. If horror is not your thing and tough games just make you mad, you still need to rent it just to see the zombie get chopped in half. That never gets old.

Ultimately, the positives far outweigh the negatives in Nightmare Creatures. It's spooky, challenging, and a hell of a lot of fun.

There's plenty of fun to be had as you battle weird creatures and large bosses. Unfortunately, the frantic action is marred by an overly-complex control scheme which is condusive to mindless button pushing. Nightmare Creatures is no classic, but it's a certainly good Halloween game.

If you feel like revisiting the world of early 3D action, Nightmare Creatures is a decent choice, but you should be aware that nay game you pick might be better left as a pleasant memory.

While it does have a lot of nice elements, Nightmare Creatures ultimately ends up as a fairly disappointing experience. That's really quite a shame because the potential and premise were clearly there for it to be an incredible game; it just feels like it came out of the development oven a few months too early. Perhaps the extra time and effort that seem to be missing from this title will appear in a sequel. We'll just have to wait and see.