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User Rating: 9 | Severance: Blade of Darkness PC
I picked this up for about 10$ at the futureshop, cause nobody else had it. I get alot of cheaper games over newer ones, cause what would you rather have, 3 games or 1? Anyways, I always look for Gruesome games so as soon as I played the demo, I knew I was Going to buy it on the weekend {and it was MONDAY! That was a torturous wait.} The graphics are still good compared to games that are out now, like half-life 2 and Doom 3. The water effects can almost match Half-Life 2, It just doesn't reflect objects. And shadows are real time, you can carry a torch and your shadow is displayed perfectly. You can even move closer to the light source and your shadow grows! That's pretty good for a 1999 year game. Oh yeah, I forgot the physics. These can compare to Painkiller. Unbelieveably well implentented physics means you can throw things, dismembered limbs roll, spin bounce like they should, wood splinters well and thrown weapons bounce off the walls and floor until skidding to a halt. How'd the developers pulled this off in the year they did, Who knows. Play the demo and see for yourself. At this time computers could not handle a game like this. This was the ultimate graphics for it's time, nobody saw anything better that was out. But you needed a pimp machine to play it, so it never got the coverage it should have. Very Underrated. Now for what you clicked into this review for! I'll explain the gibs in detail don't worry. You can chop off hands, forearms, upper arms, feet, lower legs, thigh and heads. Blood goes on the ground. It gushes out of a severed appendage along with the part that just got sliced off. When an enemy is in his death animation you can keep cutting him up, and even when he's on the ground you keep chopping if your a sadist. If you enjoy throwing things, break off an arm and beat a guy with it. Then throw it into somebodies face if you like. Like solder of fortune you can put guys through alot of pain. Cuts appear in the place you slice. There has been so many good times where a guy is in the middle of his animation and I kept chopping things off. Poor guy. One last thing I should mention: No combos. You get 5 attacks, pressing attack, or presing attack in conjunction with a movement key. {WASD uparrow etc.} You can make you're own combos life this. I didn't count an unsheathing attack where you grab your weapon out of it's pouch and slice, because that isn't a move that is made into combos. It's basically a first strike move. Also throwing weapons I didn't count as an attack, but It's there and It's damaging. You can dodge, use sheilds, one handed weapons and carry a sheid, two handed weapons and block using the actual weapon. There's too much, I can't go on. 
