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2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you every played Loaded, you'll recognize this game right away. Good action, but lacking in story. You start the game, and immediately you're fighting, with no history, no explanation, anything.

The saving grace of this game is decent graphics, smooth gameplay and the pure joy of slashing through TONS of enemies.

If you're looking for pure action with no plot, go for it. If you're looking for depth, try something else, such as Soul Reaver...

EverQuest Meets Diablo...sorta

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 21 / 21
Date: July 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Meet Anna..thats about all there is to say about a game that was originally hyped as great looking 3rd person survival horror game, suddenly turned into a rather dull Diablo rip-off. Character interaction isn't what the reviews claim it to be (oh sure, the villagers talk to you, but its nothing that you need to go out of the way for) and for a game titled Vampire Apocalpyse, it has nothing to do with vampires! For that matter, the endless questing and hacking of monsters (the hack and slash is the ONLY fun part) gets dull after an hour, and there's STILL no hint anywhere of a storyline or even a minor plot! If you need something to do to just occupy some time, get this game, but if you're looking for a good plot/story related action RPG (if you can really call this game an RPG) then I'd try to steer clear of Dark Angel.

Oops! Made a mistake buying this one.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 51 / 52
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Every once in a while you just go ahead and buy a game without knowing anything about it and you are sorry you did. I have had this happen to me once before with a bad game called Deathtrap Dungeon. Well I referred to this game as Deathtrap Dungeon 2 because it's another mistake on my part.

And believe me, I am not all that hard on games. I want to like games and I want to have fun, but there isn't much good about this game. First off, as the other review noted there is no story. You start the game off right in battle, and you expect the story to pick up after that right? Wrong. Think a story is going to show itself at the beginning? Wrong. I have yet to see any story. The only story you will get is from reading the book.

The game kind of reminds me of a Diabalo/Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, except both of those games were good, and Dark Angel is not. If they would have just thrown in some good voice acting like in Legacy of Kain then the game would be so much better, but they didn't.

The graphics are definately subpar. The menu screen looks like something that could have easily been done on the PS1. Actually, the whole game looks like it could have been on the PS1. The only part that seems above par is the sounds and music. But there is only so many times you can hear a monster grunt, or one say "You'll regret that" after you wax him before that gets old.

They say this game is an Adventure/RPG. I don't see much RPG about it. There really isn't much freedom to wonder around. Guess my idea of a RPG is Phantasy Star, Summoner or Final Fantasy. On Dark Angel you point a silver cursor to one of the areas on the map then it shows brown dots go to that location. There is no getting attacked on your way to anything. Then all you do is crawl around level after level of some dungeon killing lots of monsters, picking up weapons or stuff, hitting switches, and sometimes killing some monster that gives you some item to fullfill a quest you got from one of the towns. Then you take the item back to the town and they give you some money. You also can collect items to take to these shrine things in the towns and they can raise your strength or one of your other attributes.

The towns are pretty bad too. There is very few people in each town, and probably only two of them are of any use to you. Meaning, there are probably only two of them that you can get a quest from and buy and sell items.

I see nothing original or good about the game (besides the sound). And unless you really like just mind numbing dungeon crawling, then I can't really recommend this game to anyone. I can see this game coming down in price real quick because once some people get the word out about how bad it is, people probably won't be buying it too much.

Please rent this game if you really feel the need to play it. Then decide whether or not to buy it, I have a feeling that after a few hours of playing it, you won't want to waste your money on it.

Believe me, I wanted to like this game. I really wanted it to be good, but it just isn't. Please don't make the mistake I did and buy this game because you think it's going to be good, it just isn't.

Utter garbage, Metro 3d ...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I don't expect a game to blow me away with story, actors or any other things that goes into a movie. Because it's a game. It's just for fun. With that in mind I try not to rate games too harshly and also because there is usually some reddemming quality that I come away with that is good. But not this one. The game just starts. No intro, nothing to show what is going on or why. Just straught into a Blood omen clone that ... There isn't any story in the whole game. Just move from place to place and kill things. There is no real reason for it. There really isn't anything good in this game. It is years dated and uses nothing of the ps2 power. Metro 3d just put this sorry excuse for a game together and then hoped we the gaming community would waste our money on it. There may not be alot of rpg games on the PS2 but they are coming. Save your cash for the good ones.

Think of one of the worst games you have ever played......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Think of one of the worst games you have ever played,because that game you are thinking of is much better than this game. I am very ashamed to have even purchased this game.My wise words to you are DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!

Wasted effort? What effort?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: July 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There are some games made that beg the question "What was the point?" But Dark Angel takes this situation to a whole new level. Quite frankly, I've seen better games for the Sega Saturn. This game totally wastes the PS2's capabilities, with no movies, cutscenes, or even spoken dialogue. There was neither an effort to tell a story or some background information, nor was there any introduction to the lead character Anna and her personal story. It also suffers from poor delivery of details. One would not know which weapon (Axe or Sword), or armor (leather or plate), is stronger; that information is never displayed. Additionally, the instruction booklet was worthless. It too fails to clairify the difference of strength between weapons and armor. It also makes a dismal attempt to describe the differences between monsters, only giving a vague description of each, without a pictures of examples. In short, this game isn't worth its weight of plastic. A wasted effort, if there was any effort made.

A good Idea destroyed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Dark Angel seemed like it had such potential to be something better than what it was. But in the end it totally fizzles and dies with a stake through the heart. The game is long and promises hundreds of hours of gameplay. I will give it that. But while that is a high point the game drowns in a sea of lows. The game has no cut-scenes or characturs to talk to. The story line is almost no existent except for what you read off the back of the case or in the manual. The story could have been much more engrossing its almost like they set you up and then leave you hanging. All you do is run around from town to town and other places hacking through hundreds of enemy`s. While Diablo was the same thing at least it had some sort of story to back it up. This is just mindless dungeon hack material. There is some music although being merely OK is not great. The sound affects are sub par and the graphics are not all that great when it comes to pushing the limits of the PS2. Plain and simple the game delivers almost nothing. In the end it promises 400+ hours of gaming I quit playing after less than 15 minutes and that was all I needed.

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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At first when I decided to play this game, I thought that it would be like Diablo, but was I ever, ever wrong. There was no storyline at all, the bird's eye view was horrible (I kept straining my eyes to see the characters, everything was so dark, except for that strange light that seems to illuminating from Anna, which I don't understand where it came from) and the music was awful. There would be loud pounding music one minute and all of the sudden it's silent for a long time....Strange.... The action was barely there, just run up to the monster and hack. It wasn't even fun after the first 30mins. The graphics isn't even worthy of PSone (maybe supernintendo). Dark Angel is neither an RPG game or is it an adventure game, I don't know what it is...except that it is boring! I wish I could give it zero stars.

The Worst Mistake of My Game Buying history

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: July 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hate it, Hate it,!! No story, no intro, no movie, you name it; this game ...! You are thrown into battle at the start along with towns people (old men, old ladies included). There's no connections to the settings, you just jump from one place to another and fight along side weak towns people. WAKE UP YOU ..., Metro 3D!!!! This is PSX2 we're talking, and you're making fun of this system by creating THE ... GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN!!

Crashing Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The game begins after an obscenely long loading period. You sit in anticipation waiting to see a spectacular opening sequence and suddenly find yourself looking at a bunch of little figures roaming about in circles and realize the game has begun. What's more you're right in the middle of a battle!

I had to reboot the first time I played thinking I missed something or pressed the start button accidentally skipping the intro. This game is simply the biggest waste of money on the video game market. It looks and plays like a Nintendo game from 1990 and absolutely has no plot or structure that would encourage further game play.

I wish I'd never opened the box. However, since I was stuck with it I thought I'd give it a chance. I rated this game one star because the graphics and atmosphere were noble in their attempt. However, there are no towns to explore, the dungeon maps show you were everything is located including monsters, and there is absolutely no character development despite the pseudo-role-playing feel.

Good heavens! What were they thinking?

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