Saturday 7 March 2009

Gamespotting 010b - I've punched Nite Owl and he did nothing!


Well, with the release of Watchman and all of the advertising everywhere at the moment (even a guy dressed as Nite Owl at the one second past midnight screening in Manchester), I thought I would try out the new piece of downloadable content that I found on Playstation Network called Watchman: The End Is Nigh.

Now I love the book and can't wait to go and see the film, but at this point this is a watchman related item that I haven't liked. In this you can play as Rorschach or as Nite Owl (2) between the events of the book and the passing of the Keene Act which outlawed superheros.

As for combat, Nite Owl can do basic combos upon enemies and use his Batman like gadgets from his body armour; and Rorschach has very strong hand to hand combat and can pick up weapons that the fallen enemies have used against them a few seconds before.

Now this game contains two great things (Watchman related storyline and free roaming beat em up gameplay like the Streets Of Rage Film), but the two dont do well together very well and its just gets propper frustrating after a few hours because it is just the same group of enemies over and over again. There are good things about it though is it does fill in the player on some storylines that are not included in the book, so from a fan point of view; its well worth the buy.

But that is also the most annoying thing about the game; the price as it is £12.99. Now since GTA 4: The Lost and Dammed is a few pounds more and you get so much more from that package, but with this you only get four hours gameplay max and thats that.

Overall, I am dissapointed with this title because it could have been so much better that it is, but maybe the second installment (released around the DVD release later on in the year) may improve upon this formula.

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