Remember FMV games? Remember how much fun they were? Yeah, I don’t either, because aside from the novelty factor of the early stuff like Dragon’s Lair, FMV games were about as fun as you would expect watching poorly done movies that keep rewinding on their own would be.
Bloody Death doesn’t buck the trend. Although I applaud the fact that they were able to make an FMV game at all given XBLIG’s size limitations, that’s about all I can applaud them for. The acting & directing are laughable, the plot is non existent, the pacing attrocious, the visual quality of the video is horrible (no doubt to fit under the 150MB limit), and if all that wasn’t bad enough, it’s very obvious that there was not one native English speaker to work on the game so not only are you watching a bad student horror flick, but you’re watching a bad student horror flick with hard to understand accents, out of place swearing, and poor grammar.
Come on developers! Start releasing more good games so I don’t have to review dreck like this. We had a wonderful stretch earlier in the year with great game after great game coming out on XBLIG. What happened?
