Summary
This is the black collar song, put it in your middle finger and sing along.
The Good
Ah the underrated video game... like the rebelling antichrist of video game hell. Sworn to defeat the rouge new messiah, the over rated game (GT3, MIdnight Club 2, Sega GT, Halo, I'm looking dead at you). It's sheer good old fashioned goodness, unrecognised by the faceless crowds, and the idiot magazine reviews. No game clearly defines this better than Spawn Armadeggon.
In Spawn, you play Spawn, the unholy demon who wanted nothing more than the love of his life, Wanda, to truely be happy, when he was a human named Al Simmons. Sadly, Al's job was as a professional assassin for U.S. security. So self defense DOES get you to hell...
However, Al had a heart (which also gets you to Hellm apparantly) and his boss Jason Wynn disapproved of this, so he had Al torched to death (smell the fucking irony!)
But Al made a deal he couldn't refuse with that great, big, chickenesque Todd McFarlane Satan, the dark lord Malebolgia (otherwise known as Evil Lump). He would come back to Earth, if he would be a general in hell's army during armageddon.
All this for good old Wanda!!!
But Al got more than he bargained for. He became a hellspawn (duh!), homeless and insane. But suddenly, one day while he was angsting, a big flash of green light from heaven stikes new york and little does he know it, Spawn may not rot in hell forever (Phh...)
But that's unimportant.
Spawn is a 3rd person action game, where you kill the bloody demons that are spilling onto earth, because of them idiot angels!! You work your way through 23 missions, using your axe Agony, your cape, your demon powers of hell, and some cool guns. You must close the Hell Hole to save yourself and humanity from oblivion! Cuz oblivion is bad! There's no free nachos in oblivion!
So anyway, the game is more gooderer than every website says it is. I for one find it pleasing chopping demons and slicing angels. The game looks good, sounds good, with a track from Marilyn Manson, excellent voice acting, and a unique plot with a few twists. Just trust me on this.
The Bad
You know, it ain't perfect. This game does have quite a few problems, the biggest of which are frustrating level designs, some frustrating enemies, and some camera issues which usually aren't too annoying anyway. Mainly. And winning it once doesn't have a satisfying ending!!!
The Bottom Line
For chrissake, 11 bucks? You'd be a fool to rent it. BUY BUY BUY.
