Requiem
Cyclone Studios / 3DO

How to be a good Angel:

This game does not present the first image I think of when I think of an Angel. To me, an Angel to me is some person dressed in white with wings and a halo maybe, in this he looks like a homeless person with a large selection of guns. Guns is another thing that doesn’t quite seem to fit, i mean, an Angel, with guns, thats more akin to something out of Dogma (meaning a comedy) than a serious thing. Even though the plot is remotely stupid it is still good and unlike Redline, this wouldn’t work without one. The gameplay is your standard FPS affair although it’s not like they said it would be, they said that it would be the next big thing.

I think of it as just being better than Blood 2. Blood 2 is a good game and it has almost exactly the same feel as this, it’s just that this is better done and it actually makes you want to follow it through to the end. However this "follow it through to the end" thing is severly hampered by one thing, the horrible half-way boss. It takes forever to beat this thing, and you can’t kill it just by pumping ammo into it either, you have to find it’s weakness first, and even after you know this, it’s still the best part of an hour before you beat it. Now having something this difficult half way is just a major annoyance, to make it worse, you walk into a room, thinking that you are off to do a normal mission when all of a sudden you hear it talking to you and then you are whisked off to meet it. This is a little to unexpected for my liking.

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