Beautiful, repetitive button mashing....LAME!

User Rating: 5 | Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom X360
Freely admitted...this game was a filler between my next real video game fix (Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, Bio Shock, etc) so I knew going into this it wasn't exactly what I was looking for. That disclaimer aside, I did have fun playing this game and was impressed with the graphics of the game, but got bored fairly quickly and was ready to sell this on E-bay and move on.

Graphics and gameplay mechanics, great...the ability to select which character to play as was pretty cool (although I chose the old man and was regretting that...he has the lamest mini-game which involves memorizing about 50 lines of cornball dialogue if you want to succeed), the only thing that really stuck out as "great" to me was the music...I thought the soundtrack was outstanding.

Outside all the flash and packaging, what is there to the game? Sorry to say, not a lot. Run, Shoot, Hit and cast a spell....this is just a polished version of "Ghosts and Goblins" from the arcade in 1984. This is a solid product and obviously produced with pride, the problem is the concept behind the game is flawed and really didn't bring anything to the player other than blind button mashing against a never-ending flood of enemies.

The game did make me feel like I was back into the 80's again though, so I guess that was cool.