Belongs on the Big Screen, not the Computer Screen. But a decent belnd of modern weapons and ancient magic

User Rating: 8.5 | Clive Barker's Jericho (Limited Edition) X360
With Jericho you get what basically ammounts to a modern horror movie told from a video game perspective. Over all the game is decent, with the great Clive Baker providing the storyline, however this game screams to be either an RPG or more likely a movie.

The Games plot line revolves around Jericho, a top=secret branch of the US Army's Chaplian's corps that answers to the US Department of Occult Warfare, and is told from the point of view of the team leader, who after being slain is granted the ability to transfer his essence to any member of the team. The mission the Jericho team is sent on is to infiltrate the ancient Sumerian city of Al-Kahled, a city built over the prison of an Ancient evil known only as the Firstborn.

The characters are extremely well developed, and each possess theri own unique magical attacks, ranging from pyromancy to healing, and weapons from your standard assault and sniper rifles, to gatling guns. The enemies are also very diverse, ranging form your standered undead in the form of soldiers form the Roman Imperial Army, to Crusaders to the ever popular Nazis to Demons born right out of hell itself.

The game's best feature though, especally on the 360 Verson, is it's graphics, which are increadibly life like. However this doesn't solve the game's major flaw, which is it's controls. The controls themselves are increadibly stiff, especally the reload button, which requires two taps to reload both your primary and secondary weapons.

Over all Jericho is a very enjoyable game, with avery original idea, but minor flaws keep it from achieveing what it could be. As I said before, this is the kind of game that would have been better suited to being a live action movie then a game.