Creature Shock

The Good
I played it, so you don't have to.

The Bad
This game was being sold in stores.

The Bottom Line
Bad games are released all the time. But when a game is so bad it can barely be classified as a videogame, you know something's not right. I'm not even going to waste my time writing an unnecessary long review and I'm just gonna get straight to the point.

The premise of this "game" is that one fateful day humanity decides to colonize other planets and to do this they construct various starships to explore some parts of the universe. Nothing spectacular, but I guess it was nice for 1994. You begin the game with a cutscene that shows one of said ships approaching an asteroid, until said asteroid actually reveals itself to be an alien and extents tentacles to the ship taking it to deep space. The cutscene looks promising, and after that you realize you need to find out what the hell happened to the starship and blast off the bad guys.

That is about all that is good about this game. This is where things start to suck. You begin the game aboard a space ship in what appears to be a space shooting game. All you do is click to shoot everything that appears in front of you, you don't even get to know what you're shooting at, there is no timer so you don't know how long it takes for you to reach your goal, and then you get to fight one huge brown thing that appears to be an alien ship, using the same strategy you used for the rest of the level. Maybe the Cyberdemon protip was exactly inspired from this game, that is, "Shoot it until it dies". No strategy whatsoever, just click the fire button like if your life depended on it and you're done.

Now, after this awful attempt at space shooting we actually get to the "first person" part if that's how we can call it. Right after you blow up the brown ship you land in some sort of place, I don't even know how to call it because you don't actually get to know how you got there. And this is where the real action is supposed to begin. Unfortunately, what follows is even worse than the space shooting sequence: You're given a weapon and all you have to do is aim at various monsters that pop up in front of you and kill all of them to proceed to the next stage. You can't move your character, there is no way to avoid enemy fire, there is no strategy in the fights, all you have to do is shoot at them before they can shoot you. It's the most boring, awful and frustrating experience one can ever see in a videogame, because there's basically no gameplay at all

This pretty much sums up the whole game. There is nothing to do in this game except for pressing one or two buttons. However, there is one thing that deserves mention: The graphics truly are outstanding for the time it was released, and they're all well animated, even though they look a bit "weird", but it's the overall style of them that makes them feel as such.

But, as the review on HOTU said, "Rule number one in computer gaming industry: good graphics do NOT a game make". This game can barely be called such because there is... no gameplay. There really is nothing to do here. There is no reason at all to buy this game or even to download it because there's no value on it aside for the graphics which even then, have no rotations and may not be compared to doom/duke nukem 3d graphics. Whatever you do, don't get this game, stay away from it, cover your ears whenever you hear talking about it, destroy every copy of it you find: it is the definition of all that is wrong with videogames, graphics over gameplay.

Now that you're done reading this review, you might as well consider playing some real videogames. Titles like this one just need to be forgotten and never be heard of again.