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A spectacular, creative, and unflinching realisation of a Clive Barker nightmare for next-gen console platforms and PC, Clive Barker's Jericho is a new supernatural horror concept with story by the master mythmaker, novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. Jericho deals with the mysterious reappearance of a lost city in a remote desert. When a form of evil that goes right back to the dawn of days resurfaces from there, a Special Forces squad, trained in both conventional warfare and the arcane arts, is sent in. Their mission: Hunt down and destroy the evil that lurks at the heart of the city before it destroys humanity. Clive Barker's Jericho is designed as an action horror title that will up the stakes in visuals and phantasmagorical special effects. Mingling the darkest elements of Barker's horror fiction and films with an ambitious, age-spanning story, aimed at mature gamers, fans of Clive Barker and horror fiction enthusiasts.... More >>
- All-action FPS combined with darkest horror, modern weapons & paranormal powers
- Squad gameplay that adds tension and action and switch between & play all seven squad members
- Control over a dozen supernatural weapons and abilities at a time through squad mechanics
- Each character has unique paranormal abilities
- Horror and action like nothing you've seen before
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December 14th, 2009at (#)
This is by far the worst game i’ve played in a long time. The graphics are at best decent, the story line is cool but the game play is terrible, i don’t see what other players see in it or what games they have played lately but this game is not exciting at all.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 14th, 2009at (#)
Este es un juego solo para fans de Clive Barker,honestamente al juego le falta mucho, lo rescatable son las imagenes, y los demonios sacados de la mente de este escritor tan famoso.
Rating: 2 / 5
December 14th, 2009at (#)
To be blunt I didn’t like Jericho. The textures are bland, the voice acting is pretty bad, the sound of the guns are very tin-can sounding,the friendly AI consistenly die and walk right into exploding enemies ,your spending most of your time healing them,the lighting is pretty bad, the contrasted black-light areas are washed out . Its basically a choridor shooter ,although that’s not necessarily a bad thing . There’s also constant mini-cutsenes that break the action way too often and include some load time. The enemies do look good though very detailed ,but the screen is so washed out in darkness and obscurity (even with the given flash-light) that you don’t get to apreciate how cool they really look. The highlight of the game is the cool looking ‘casper’ character which looks quite creepy and dark, its one plot element I do like, but on the gameplay side Jericho is a very basic ,choppy,corridoor shooter. The graphics never really dazzled me and the gameplay is unfinished. Your squadmates love to die and you’ll spend the vast majority of your time healing them. Also the command feature in the game is a useless feature since the enemies only do one thing which is charge at you and your squad will not hold position if you walk too far, so there’s no squad tactics involved like taking cover or flanking since the levels are mostly linear, so the squad command options are pointless if the only thing the enemies does is walk-run or fly at you. I do like the secondary magic powers they’re quite nice, but there split up between 6 people and not all given to one person like Bioshock or The Darkness. So your constantly micro-managing your squad like a kid in a toy store. So the game basically plays like this,enemies charge you-you shoot them-and/or-use a magic power-your squad always runs right into the exploding enemies and die-you try to heal them-rinse & repeat, that’s Jericho in a nutshell,while not necessarily a bad thing but the emphasis unfortunatly is on healing or you could just shoot away at the enemies until the melee is over and your friendly AI will get up eventually without healing sorta like Gears does. It is nice to be able to switch between each member of the team, but given that your all standing together it makes little sense,except that you have to to use there given magic power, as some of the powers are better for certain enemie types, so your gameplay is riddled with healing dumb friendly AI because they’ll never get the hint that the exploding enemies will kill them so they don’t try to avoid the exploding enemies at all. This has nothing to do with tatics or player error its just game code and its inexcusable .There are some hi-lights of the game like some gory entrails and the typical gory blood stained walls and rooms full of human body parts, but allot of it is so washed out in bad contrasting dark/light areas that you’ll be wishing you’d bought that $10,000 OLED LCD to enjoy it, but its more of a game programming error than TV inferiority . Im viewing it on 1080i 768p native LCDTV in which other games look spectacular on. As a game fan of all FPS, Jericho just doesn’t quite do it for me, there’s too many negatives for me too enjoy this game. I returned my purchased copy for a refund, Id rather spend that money on COD4. I myself don’t always listen to the big named magazine/websites for their reviews of games, but in Jericho’s instance, they were all spot-on right about this mediocre shooter.I expected a little more out of a Clive Barker game,like a deeper plot and better game-play mechanics but Jericho is just that ‘mediocre’. Rent Only
Rating: 3 / 5
December 14th, 2009at (#)
An anomaly appears in the middle of the desert and a seven member unit, the Jericho squadron, is deployed to deal with the situation. Jericho is by no means a normal group of people, either: each person has the power to heal and, as the game progresses, each person develops two types of arcane powers that help dispatch baddies. That’s a good thing, too, because the thing you have entered is not just a portal leading into a place like Hell or Summercamp or another Blah you do not want to visit. This place leads into a hole where God itself went to bury the first and worst mistake in creation.
While this game has some tendencies that are seen in a lot of first-person shooters, Jericho also has an inventive way where you can be any player than you fancy at the time. Simply depress the button and you can be a strongman with a gattling gun, a preacher with a fiery disposition, a sniper, a body leaper, or a lady with a really bad attitude and some blood magic to boot. The thing that makes this game stand out, aside from the gore itself, is not what you can do inside the game. It is what you are trying to accomplish and the tale you are being told while you waltz from one horror to the next.
Clive really made a good showing when you decided to pop up in this tale.
The graphic nature of the game is a lovely thing, too, and gets worse as you go in. You go from roads lined with people to monsters that have some of the most terrifying things done to them and that becomes second-hand. It really doesn’t take long to figure out that you have walked into a nightmare with 360 graphics kicking down the doors. The flow of the game moves at an uncanny speed — in some ways that is a beautiful thing and, in some ways, that is something that makes the game go a little too fast. I personally ran through the game too fast because I wanted more of the story, and wish I would have taken the time to smell the, umm, decay? Still, you can always go back through and check out the game with more difficult standards to deal with (and they are difficult).
The game does have some cons as well as those pros, including the respawning of some enemies, repeat bigger enemies that are not quite boss strength, and little missions that require you to make use of all of your team members. That isn’t that bad, but I could do without having to leap into a person to open a gate or take the money shot at a button that opens some far-off switch. It also throws enemies at you that are amazingly hard to kill, and the tactics they use are not genius but a mixture of specific types of enemies ( foot soldiers to distract you while a walking bomb slips into your unit) can be devastating).
If you think the game seems too quick for you, check it out by renting it and see how much you like it. I personally didn’t think I would want it in my life, but playing lead me to a breakthrough and made me want to beat it on all settings. Some of the achievements are beastly as well, not allowing you to casually walk around and collect bonuses. In a world paved with bodies, however, it is not always the easy way you want to dance.
Rating: 4 / 5
December 14th, 2009at (#)
I found Clive Barker’s Jericho to be quite a good game. Something a little different from the typical shooter, you will need to make use of all the Jericho team to complete the game. You may find one character suits your style the closest, or you may enjoy bouncing between a few favorite persona’s. This game, though it has some creepy moments, is more about the grotesqueness of the world you become trapped in.
The plot takes you through different slices of time in which you confront different and terrible enemies.
Rating: 4 / 5