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MTV Celebrity Deathmatch

Fans der MTV-Serie Celebrity Deathmatch dürfen die Knetfiguren-Duelle (etwa Marilyn Manson gegen Busta Rhymes) in der PC-Umsetzung gegen CPU oder einen Freund selbst austragen. Was im Fernsehen lustig wirkt, ist aufgrund schwacher Grafik, weniger Spielmodi und träger Steuerung am PC nur kurze Zeit unterhaltsam.

The premise is a simple one: “Hey, let’s take a bunch of famous people, make clay models out of them and then have them beat the crap out of each other mercilessly!” Such is the basic concept behind Celebrity Deathmatch, a show that gained a pretty impressive following on MTV. Now, Gotham Games has finally put together a game based on the TV show. Unfortunately the gameplay is extremely bad, being too repetitive, too shallow and too short. Celebrity Deathmatch is an empty fighter that won’t grab your attention, let alone hold it for very long.

Moi qui pensais que la MTV était une chaîne à caractère philanthrope qui se moquait des profits et qui préfère miser sur la qualité de... Non je déconne. La prochaine fois, si elle pouvait filer plus de 100 dollars de budget, ce serait sympa et ça nous éviterait ce genre d'arnaque. MTV Celebrity Deathmatch a tout pour mener une grande carrière de daube. Droit dans les oubliettes. Dommage, ça aurait pu être drôle.

Worst of all, this is a fighting game in which the fighting is neither exciting nor funny. The controls are a wreck, whether you’re playing using a keyboard or a gamepad — and even when you master the combos, they do nothing more than trigger the special attacks. If you’re imagining the total freedom that the show’s combatants enjoy, forget it: here, you’re on a dual-axis rail, flailing like a Rock ’Em Sock ’Em robot. As a huge fan of both fighting games and the MTV show, let me be the first to tell you that this game fails utterly at capturing the spirit of either.

This is a lifeless corpse of a game. I'm giving it five per cent more than I should because Mr T is in it (and in any sane world all games would have Mr T in them). But be warned: even limited exposure to this atrocity will numb your soul for evermore.