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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Review
User Submitted Buffy the Vampire Slayer Reviews
Date: 2008-09-22
A LICENSED GAME THAT'S ONE HELLUVA RIDE 8.5 OUT OF 10
As most gamers know, licensed games have a tendency to be craptacular failures that should have never been created, hell, the worst game I ever played is a licensed game (Casper: Spirit Dimensions for PS2... Ugh). Since most of these games are complete garbage, gamers don't buy them, but unfortunately because of such fears of playing crappy games, a lot of times the good licensed games get ignored by gamers and not a whole lot of people get to experience them as they should. Luckily, this game not only garnered critical success, but also had moderate commercial success. I never watched the show, but I heard this game was pretty good, so I picked up and it was a lot of fun.
WHAT THE GAME IS: It's basically a brawler with some nifty weapons and hordes of the supernatural. A girl named Buffy has the powers of the slayer, which is only given to one girl in all the world to stop the forces of darkness. Buffy is a teenager in Sunnydale, California who is gifted in slaying the supernatural. A supernatural force threatens to plague humanity with vampires, demons, and zombies and Buffy most stop this force from destroying humanity.
GRAPHICS: The character models look great for a game from 2002, but the rest of the game isn't going to blow you away. The environments sometimes are boring to look at, and there are texture problems. The lip-synching is pretty good.
MUSIC: This game really knows how to set the creepy mood and despair, another highlight in this highly polished licensed game.
SOUND: Punching, kicking, stabbing, dying screams, good voice acting from the lead actress of the show and the rest of the characters.
GAMEPLAY: The developers really focused on the gameplay. This is one of those games that really gives you a sense of what it's like to punch and kick and enemy brutally. You can also use weapons like stakes, rakes, shovels, holy water, a crossbow that fires regular and holy water bolts, and a gun that fires Hellfire and Holy Water. Simple puzzles are also part of the game and aren't really very difficult to figure out. You can also upgrade your health and slayer power with special crystals you find in the game.
OVERALL: This game has highly polished gameplay, an interesting story and great music. It's definitely worth an investment if you have an old Xbox around. This is indeed one of the best licensed games out there and few can be superior. This game was made by the same folks behind the upcoming Silent Hill: Homecoming (360, PS3) so that game will end up being really good.
THE GOOD: Brilliant hand-to-hand combat, lots of weapons, lots of enemies to kill, not very difficult, great music, good voice-acting, simple puzzles, and decent environment designs.
THE BAD: Graphics have not aged very well, sometimes you'll be wandering for long periods of time trying to find out where to go.
Date: 2007-09-21
Not Quite A Gamer
I'm not a gamer. Other than dabbling with the occasional "Crash Bandicoot" and "Dead or Alive", I haven't really played that many games. But, being a Buffy fanatic, I had to scoop up this game when I saw it at Game Stop for a mere five dollars.
The controls are exceptional and the story line is pretty interesting. The voices are good (I love the fact that most of the Buffy actors voice their characters here) and each level definitely brings on the fun. Killing vampires is easily the best part--the dusting effect is nicely done--and the parts where you can interact with Buffy's friends will make any fan of the show squee with glee. Overall, the game is very playable and the good graphics make it easy on the eyes. The only real complaint that I have is that there is one particularly hard part where you simply wander through a maze and try to navigate with a very misleading light. That part was overly hard, I thought. But other than that, I really have no qualms at all about this game.
So, I say this to Buffy fans who aren't really big on games: Get this game. If you like the show, this will surely keep you entertained, if not enthralled. Perhaps I'm biased. Hell, I'm sure there are games out there 100 times better than this. But, this is for the Buffy fans, and they'll enjoy it. I know I did.
9/10
Date: 2007-05-14
btvs - video game for xbox console
just as much fun as i remembered, nothing like slaying a couple of virtual demons to put the inner demons to rest :). product got to me in good time and plays well, i don't have an xbox console, so it's cool also that i just got a patch from the xbox 360 website and this is one of the games that can be played on the 360 console. product came in good timing
Date: 2007-01-29
SLAYER TIME
This game is awesome. I am a Buffy Fanatic. It is alot of fun to play and the graphics are cool. Even the voices are of the real people from the show. It isn't easy and it isn't hard. It is right in the middle. I have reached the end of the game and I still play it on a regular basis.
Have alot of fun when and if you get this game.
Date: 2006-11-29
Awesome buy
I am not a gamer in any sense....I own an XBOX and play a couple times a week at most, but GOD I love this game! Like others have said, it is a great fighting game, easy to learn, easy to control....good graphics, great moves, and none of that long drawn-out, "searching for the sword of blah-blah" wandering around that you get with other games. This was the reason that Buddha invented video games....try it, you will love it!
(unless of course you like those "saga" games where you can spend hours roaming around a virtual world looking for crap and talking to people...then the game would be a bad choice.)
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