Why did I play this game again?
Oh yeah. LowBiasMonthly. And I’m pretty sure it was comic book related.
Now your old pal Jason isn’t really into them comic books or them super hero movies and all that. Not really. But here’s what I know. DC makes better animated things and Marvel makes better “live action” things. That’s in quotes because it’s basically 100% all green screen stuff now anyway.
What about this Deadpool fellah though, eh? He’s. Um. Sure dressed in red.
I picked this game basically at random because, like I said, I don’t really have any interested in a lot of this media or universes or whatever other than the odd hard PG/soft R rated Batman stuff (Gotham By Gaslight, The Doom That Came To Gotham, The Killing Joke etc). So why not pick a game about someone I really didn’t know anything about at the time? Good? Good.
Do I remember one bit about this plot? No. I remember Mr. Sinister, I remember a party, I remember Lady Death was kind of hot in a sugar skull kind of way, and I think there was something with a giant boot, maybe? Maybe that was Mario 3.
Anyway. Plot doesn’t matter. Deadpool quips and kicks butt and cuts people in half and shoots the halves into even smaller pieces.
This is a hack and slash action adventure game that takes place… somewhere. And you hack and slash your way through pretty generic levels fighting pretty generic dudes and get (must better than Blasto) commentary from DP as you go.
Graphics for this time of game in this era (I’m thinking like Darksiders level stuff) are pretty generic. Nothing amazing, nothing horrible. No Bethesda levels of weird clipping, nothing is super wet like some of these other games seem to look at times. Characters seem pretty well designed but the more generic the person the more “We borrowed this character model from GTA” they look. Not bad but… ya know… generic.
Music you say? What starts with a ‘g’ and ends with ‘eneric’?
Bingo.
I don’t want it to sound like I’m trashing the game for being so generic and you’re probably tired of me saying so but everything about the game other than the hero is just that. You’ve seen this game before, you’ve played this game before, you’ve been through this plot before, you’ve heard this songs before. Some other action hack and slash game is at some Marvel convention and everyone dressed up like their favorite characters and that’s what’s going on here.
Is it interesting? No. Is it bad? No. Is it fun? Yeah, I think so.
| Plot | 7/10 |
| Gameplay | 7/10 |
| Graphics | 7/10 |
| Music | 6/10 |
| Overall | 7/10 |