As for a game, Clive Barker does a so-so job on what could have been a great horror video game. Yeah, u do get some cool tools, magic and guns, but is way to limited for the team that you control. I found my self switching between only 3 of the 6 (or seven counting Devin Ross) characters, which was only Cole, black and Delgado. Many of the missions are to linear, there is some backtracking and the occasional around the corner scare, but Jericho became Dissapointing because of the story and over abundance of repetative gameplay. To many times do you fend off a lot of enemies at once, but many of those enemies are the same variations of which you first encounter in the beginning. Some of the story itself never gets solve, much like the ending that apparently is just nothing but the ocean and credits. Also Leech is never quite understood of who he is, what he acts like, or why he is such a threat. At first you see a picture of him as a human on Devin ross' comp in the beginning cinematic, but when you actually find out what he exactly looks like, he changes his character concept completely and a random flying dead bird-man is now leach by the time you find him (which stills is hardly the circumstance of which you should find him in). Last and not least, the first born is a kid, who can only be killed by a magicians who is being taken over by the firstborn and using the magic that the person has, against the first born. Many games of old used this trick and now its to common place, plus the explanation for it still being alive is "god was unable to kill it because it had to much power and freedom," but a team of regular humans with some psycho abilities can? this don't seem to add up. The music is okay but never a real big changes except between different eras. Many of the enemy AI gets predictable, although some challenges are a little interesting to figure out. Diologue is fantastic for the speech actors, but is not to consistent with the in game diologue which can get a little annoying. Maybe Clive should stick to the million dollar Hollywood business, cause royalties don't seem to be coming to him anytime soon.
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