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| Kiss Psycho Circus,
Dreamcast |
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| Games,
Richard Young,
27 January 2001 |
Rating: F2
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The history of first-person shooting games is awash with hits, misses, classics and clones, and I am afraid to report that Kiss Psycho Circus from Take 2 is about original as a Mills and Boon romantic novel, albeit a lot more violent. Crap panto-metal band Kiss lend their hackneyed moniker to a half hearted attempt at a FPS at a time when Quake III: Arena is currently wowing Dreamcast owners with its finely tuned gameplay and visuals, while the equally impressive Unreal Tournament and Half-Life are waiting in the wings. You can almost imagine the men in suits rubbing their grubby mitts over the prospect of putting out a game which will no doubt appeal to the legions of poor, misguided Kiss fans the world over. The graphics engine is actually not too bad, however. In a time when it’s fashionable to talk about frame-rates, Kiss Psycho Circus retains a solid one, and has plenty of big guns and weird creatures to fire them at (Arachniclown kebab, anybody?) The one thing that seems to be missing is the sense that any kind of effort went into the creation of this game other than the graphics engine itself. For example, making it to the end of a level rewards you withÂ…..the picture freezing while the new area loads up. Woo-hoo. The plot, which seems to revolve around collecting bits of the band members outfits, feels like a bit of an afterthought despite a healthy comic book heritage courtesy of one Todd McFarlane. Even the line-up of characters that you get to choose from at the outset have no noticeable differences in performance or abilities, each one seemingly possessing the same amount of firepower and skill as the next. Maybe I am biased because I am personally very bad at first-person shooters, suffering from the same kind of motion sickness I used to get when playing Wipeout. Or maybe there is something in the back of my mind telling me to wait for the release of Half-Life, while letting the hardcore Kiss fanatics waste even more money.
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