The Crow: City of Angels

"What did the Saturn do to you, Acclaim?"

Yet Another movie Tie In. However, the game is based on an Awful film, The follow up to the Crow, The film which lead up to the untimely death of Lead Brandon Lee., which in turn was based on the Comic Book superhero of the title.
The Developers were Acclaim, Who recently found form again with Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. But the truth, on the Saturn, Their final games were Shambles and easily Contributed to the Saturn’s downfall. With them already Milking money of of the Shocking Street Fighter: The Movie, Whoever decided to Base a Game on one of the worst films of the 90’s really ought to have his head examined
A basic Plot Compromises of the crow, The Gothic avenger, who, comes back to save the life of his Girlfriend, and himself. In The Crow: City of Angels, he returns again, this time to take down a criminal empire, who have a tendency to tape their antics, and avenge the death of a person killed by them, With the gang consisting of Bikers and Various Lowlifes. Hmmmm, High Tech then.
Characters you face are Quite Nice looking Polygons, Superimposed over Hideous Pre Rendered Backgrounds, with Ridiculous Camera angles. That is where the Similarities end. The backgrounds are Visually a mess, even alone in the dark’s were better than this tripe, and the fixed camera angles are even worse than in Tomb Raidr Chronicles, Mnay times you don’t even notice the barfly with the Machete right behind you, ready to slash you open. Game over again. Graphically, the characters don’t look so bad. They move Fluidly, with decent animations, Plus enemies are varied, from the barfly, to the redneck, to the Biker. Variety is a good thing. But the big question is Gameplay.
We buy games to play them. Not look at them, but play them. So, if a game is unplayable, don’t get it. The Crow is simply WORSE than Unplayable, Character movement is so sluggish it will take a few hours to actually move The Crow. His fighting animations are so laughable, you’ll cry, and the collision detection is so bad, you’ll often find yourself headbutting an enemy, but go right through them. It’s like Acclaim, drew the game, got some blueprints and asked some toddlers to finish it of for them
The fact that this game actually got released is a mystery, It’s so awful. Did they actually have game testers? These type of games contributed to the Saturn’s Downfall, so I really must Commend you for that Acclaim. Avoid at all costs.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 10/07/01, Updated 03/05/02