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Brilliant game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Jericho grabbed me with brilliant graphics and a suitable storyline. I did appreciate the spiritual depth to the game, but it seemed to only skim the surface to serve as a backdrop to brutal killing and wicked gore. The fighting is fast, chaotic, and fun. There is minimal strategy involved, mainly just many ways to slay the enemies that came at you in waves and sometimes in an all out barrage of mayhem as you struggle to stay alive. A quick, fun acrade play, Jericho looks cool and slides down the gullet like a sweet gooey treat that leaves you not full but not upset.

Wonderful game, I must say!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: October 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Full of suspense. The score ( meaning music) in the game is perfect. It adds so much to the environment. The stages are beautifully designed. The story is mysterious, just like silent hill 1 and 2. what also adds to the game is, you get too play with 6 characters. And believe me you need them. All the characters have their own special powers, which you need to use to get through the stages. I just love the whole midevil period with old orchestra music so dam, whoo gives me the creeps. Bottom line is forget about all the negative feedback and reviews from ign and all those other jackie's. This game is a good experience like bioshock. If you don't try it, your missing out on a great game.

simplemente Genial

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 21, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Realmente Clive Baker la pegó de nuevo con este juego, quien no recuerda Undying? pues Jericho es un juego con un ambiente realmente bueno y una trama que te mantiene a la espectativa zona tras zona, un guion muy bueno, musica y ambiente grafico que te mantienen full adrenalina.

EL modo de juego de usar cualqueir de los personajes del equipo permite hacerte la partida ma sinteresante o menos dificil todo depende de quien usar y en que momento.

El unico detall quizas es que me esperaba un video final mas impactante pero por eso no deja de ser bueno.

Recomendado 100%

Absolutely brilliant

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was really looking forward to this game before its release, but I ended up not getting it because of the largely negative press it recieved at the time. All those reviews were wrong. dead wrong.

Ill start with the graphics - they are phenomenal. Rarely has a game evoked the sense of space that Jericho does. Grand panoramic vistas of crumbling ruins and blasted terrain are commonplace. The squad is dwarfed by soaring pillars and gates. There are incredible atmospheric effects that simulate dust, storms, fog, mist, and beams of light. The designs of the creatures and the environments are top-notch, and there was a real feeling of exploration and a of a fully realized and sustained game world. The sound and music are also excellent.

The game features a great story by clive barker, and I found myself really engaged by the different characters and by the unfolding drama and wanting to see what was in store for the jericho squad at the end of their quest. All of the boss characters you meet also have a deep backstory which was one of the main appeals of the game. If you've seen hellraiser or read the books of blood then you'll know that clive barker writes a uniquely visceral and psychologically nuanced brand of horror, which is thankfully well represented in jericho.

But what about the gameplay? This is the portion of jericho that was most heavily criticized, but I found that jericho played brilliantly from start to finish. This is not a slow, tactical shooter (as some reviwers thought) or even a standard shooter like halo. Jericho is a no-holds-barred, unrelenting, adrenalin rush of action. Its more similar to games like doom and quake, but I found it to be more intense than even these. The firefights in jericho can reach truly epic proportions as you blow away dozens of enemy monsters, frequently with one hit kills, but they just keep coming. You have to be on your toes to stay ahead of the onslaught or you will be overwhelmed. Alot of reviewers said they spent more time reviving downed comrades than they did fighting. I hate to say this but really, there is no other way to put it - they dont know how to play the game. I dont consider myself a shooter expert or anything like that, just an average gamer, but I died only a few times during the course of the campaign. If you are agressive you can stay ahead of the enemies, but if you aren't (e.g. you keep reviving people) they will overwhelm you and kill you quickly. So just leave the healing to father Rawlings and concentrate on gunning down the enemy as fast as you can.

The fact that you control a squad led many people to believe that this was in some way a tactical shooter, and the description on the box even seems to suggest this. In my opinion, the reason that the game features a squad is to develop clive barker's narritive. Most of the story is told through interaction of the squad members, and since you spend the game venturing ever deeper into a nexus of evil, completely cut off from the outside world and only rarely encountering npcs who dont want to rip you head off, the conversations of the squad members are a natural and effective way to move the story along. In practice, I thought of each squad member being equivalent to a certain weapon so if I wanted the chain gun I switched to Delgado, or if I wanted the sniper rifle I would jump to abbey.

People have also complained about the button tapping sequences (quick time events). There are about 5 or 6 mandatory qtes in the ENTIRE game. If you are grabbed by an enemy, it will also trigger a qte, but this only happened to me 2 or 3 times during the game. really, its not a big deal. I like the qtes since they allow you a chance to see the enemies up close.

Overall, I highly recommend this game. It is one of my favorite games of all time. awesome story, design, and gameplay. The only drawbacks to Jericho are that it could have been longer, and the ending was not great.

Awesome game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Hellraiser anyone? This game has it all, multiplayable characters with different weapons and abilities, amazing graphics, truly scary enviroment, freaksih creatures of moderate to immence size and difficulty. This could only have come from the mind of Clive Barker. If you like kick butt shooting games the scare that crap out of you this is it.

a supernatural Killzone...a squad based Painkiller...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 17 / 19
Date: October 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Jericho is getting bad reviews in the magazines, and it's a shame because a lot of fps gamers are going to miss out.

To sum it up shortly,.. I would say Jericho is like a squad based Painkiller,.. or a supernatural Killzone. It's got great graphics,.. a freaky supernatural story,.. a cast of interesting supporting teammates all with special powers and unique weapons,.. and insane Silent Hill-ish enemies.

The game slowly opens up all the gameplay in the beginning. Each character has two attacks (either one gun with two ammo types, or two guns, or a sword.) and a special ability which can be offensive or defensive. Your team is split up into alpha and omega squads. You can order each team to different points or have them all move together. You can tell your entire team to stay put and they will untill you get out of sight. Once you leave their sight, they come catching up. The AI is nice,.. but if it was any better than there would be nothing for the player to do. If a teammate is "killed" you can walk up to them and bring them back just like in Gears of War.
About four or five levels in, you get the ability to posess and control any teammate at any time. Just aim at them and hit the posess button (or go into a menu and select one to posess.) Different situations in the game require the different abilities of your teammates.

The levels are linear,.. but with different paths to get to the same areas. The monsters usually spawn in groups and rush you. At first the enemy variation is low and you will mostly fight only two types of monsters. But a few levels in all kinds of other freaky as hell monsters start showing up. I started having flashbacks to the original Quake. (remember that classic?) All the enemies take a LOT of ammo to put down,.. but since you have a squad of six teammates it balances out. Some monsters have weak spots.

Seriously,these are inhuman nightmare abomination monsters from hell , do you expect them to take cover and use strategy? It's a nice marriage of old-school Quake and Painkiller monster rushing with some new-school squad based teamwork.

It has some RE4 style interactive cinemas in which you only have a spit second to hit the correct buttons. They'll happen unexpectedly and you'll die repeatedly,.. BUT when you fail them they immediately repeat for you to try untill you pass so you don't have to reload a savegame or restart at an earlier checkpoint. (and one of the cheats eliminates the button mashing from the specific cutscenes if you can't stand them.)
The cinemas are all played in first person.

There's really nothing wrong with Jericho. It's fun and freaky. It all depends on your personal taste. If you liked The Darkness or Painkiller then you should give Jericho a chance. At least it's something other than a WW2 or Halo fps.

"And the walls kept tumbling down.." Killer High concept FPS

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 31, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't understand why this game received negative reviews from IGN and a few other so-called Game critics, but Clive Barker's Jericho manages to live up to it's expectations. I find the plot and concept more interesting than that other FPS game FEAR as you command a supernatural squad to prevent the antagonist; The Firstborn from ressurection and taking over the world while using various powers to solve puzzles, take down enemies, that cannot be beaten with regular firepower.

Each charater has his/her own supernatural abilities: Father Rawlings can drain the health of enimes and channel it to his teammates, Delgado emits a homing fireblast for close encounters,The telekinetic Black's sninper rifle fires rounds that you can control in first person perspective, etc..
After playing for 40 minutes, it's hard to put this game down.With intense firefighting an intriging story aimed directly at horror fans and awesome graphics bump Jericho up a notch or two. It would have gotten a 5 star rating if there were a multiplayer option or even a much better ending.

The critcs got it WRONG, period!(especially EGM in particular.) Jericho was well worth the purchase, unlike The nausea inducing Darkness shooter game. However with more innovate FPS shooters like Bioshock and now Jericho, It's gonna be awhile before this genre goes away.

PS the game is even better while playing the song "Break the walls down" (via Xbox 360's custom soundtrack)courtesy of Nu Metal band Sevendust.
crank the speakers and annoy the neighbors.

Raising Hell

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't know that I've ever played a game that inspired such mixed feelings. It seems like for every reason that I could give the reader to buy this game, there would be a counter-point not to buy it:

First of all, the game has beautiful graphics. I found the intricate costumes, talented voice-acting, character depth, and spine-tinging levels were created with attention to detail in mind. On the other hand, concerning the layout of the levels, here their are some seemingly massive layouts where the first thing that I wanted to do was explore but I didn't actually have that option. A lot of the scenery was background that was unreachable by any path. And whenever I wanted to explore every nook and cranny of a particular level, I would end up feeling cheated by dead ends and trails that led to nowhere. Yes, there were different paths to take but they all led to the very same place that the developers of the game wanted the player to follow. And maybe this is due to the fact that there are no power-ups or ammunition to seek and find, but the option of free exploration would've still been nice. This will be even more apparent if one decides to play the game a second time, which I'm attempting to do on a harder setting. I'll probably whip through the game that much faster because I already know where to go and I know that I'm not missing out on seeing anything else in the process. Furthermore, sometimes battles where made unnecessarily hard just because there wasn't enough room to move around within the narrow corridors.

Another feature that set this game apart from others was the fact that after a short while into the game, the player will have the option of switching from character to character on whim and taking full advantage of each soldiers magical abilities and weaponry. Conversely, and I don't know if I would describe this as a true counter-point, some characters will be more useful or weaker than others. Some people made a really big deal out of this but I've played many games where this is the case. Sure, maybe it's not the fairest or most practical way to develop a game, but that's just the way it is, so Jericho is not setting any precedence in this respect. For example, many people complained how Fr. Rawlings and Jones seem to be practically useless. Not so, I felt. Sure, Jones powers didn't exactly make him an offensive powerhouse, but they had their place throughout the game and within battles. Sometimes through Jones, I was able to attack enemies that were out of reach of the other soldiers. And as for Jones's gun, there is another character in the game with the exact same weaponry. And although this might make Jones's attacks seem redundant, an event takes place where the other character is eliminated, leaving Jones the only character in the game utilizing the gun that he has. All of the characters in the game are this way, in that the weapons themselves are unique and operate and fire differently (and in the case of Black's character, imaginatively, thanks to her telekinetic powers).

The enemies in the game are very gruesome and rival anything seen in the "Hellraiser" movies, of which Clive Barker created. But at the same time, there isn't much of a diversity as far as the majority of enemies that a player will find throughout the game. Although, there are some stages where there are new, fearsome enemies exclusive to that particular level, a lot of the opposition in the game will consist of the same recycled villains throughout.

I really enjoyed the plot of this game and it was one of the main reasons why I bought it in the first place. I mean, having one of the masters of horror (Clive Barker) writing Jericho's story is a definite plus. But along the way, the player will find some plot holes that never get fully resolved, and the ending of this game was nothing less than a massive disappointment. Granted, I played the game on "normal" setting and perhaps the ending might be different on "hard" setting, but somehow I doubt it. I really was left with the cliched "mouth open, trying to figure out what the heck just happened" look on my face. The story did such a good job at keeping my curiosity piqued all throughout, but seemed to totally unravel at the end. Perhaps, this was intentional as far as leaving the tale open for a sequel, but if that's the case, Jericho's plot isn't enough to stand on it's own.

Lastly, Jericho doesn't have the online multi-player option (or cooperative option) that seems all too important to today's gamers. For me, not being able to take on my friends and utilizing each unique characters' gifts and talents upon one another wasn't too big of a loss...but I admit that it still would've been wicked fun to see. And as is, is another strike against this game, in some players' minds, as far as replaying the game is concerned. Sure, an interesting game will hold one's interest the first go-around, but it's those extra tidbits and options that keep a person coming back for more. And with games like "Call of Duty 4" and "Halo 3" that have hundreds of thousands of players battling each other online on any give day, this could be considered another nail in the coffin for Jericho.

So, ultimately, I will leave the reader with this. I cannot give a clear answer as to whether this game is worth buying or is best left as a rental. And I'm sure that one will sense my mixed feelings just from having read this review...but I will say this. If you are a fan of horror games with equally shocking and breath-taking stages, "flesh and blood" characters and background stories,symphonic spookiness, and blood-curdling sound effects, Clive Barker's Jericho will not disappoint. On the flip side, if a player is looking for a video game to rank up there with the likes of Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, or Bioshock, this is probably not the game for them. I can see myself replaying this game (which I am) just based on the heart and soul of the characters and their story, but the overall feel of the game has left me feeling that the overall potential of this game was not fully realized. Which leaves "Clive Barker's Jericho" at the mercy of its players and fans (and critics) to fill in the spaces.

Fun take on the shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There's a lot of good here. The new twist is possessing your teammates to get through the different obstacles or defeat certain enemies. It keeps things moving along at a quick pace, because the character you're controlling can be incapacitated and you'll just switch off to the nearest surviving teammate; no constant reloads at the tough bits.

The enemies are tricky, and even once you've learned their patterns they can still be a challenge. That goes double for the legionnaires with the overlarge shields. You'll still be on your toes the second time through.

The game's neither too hard nor too easy. There are a few spots where you might get have to repeat yourself a couple of times. There is usually a teammember who will shine in that tight spot, however, and once you figure out who, it's a breeze. (Sometimes Black's grenade launcher is what you need. Other times you could just really use Delgado's chaingun to put some lead downrange in a hurry. And other times, Cole's time-stopping power is a real lifesaver.)

The wide cast is nice and the banter isn't annoying or stale (yet; but then, I've played it through twice).

Each character has different weapons and powers, so there's a bit of learning curve with each as you figure out their controls and uses.

The story was dark and entertaining.

The only thing this game was missing was an ending. I was completely engrossed in the team's peril and then--credits. What happened? Were they back in the real world or still in the Pyxis? In a lake or the ocean? Did they survive or float out there until they drowned? It was almost as traumatic as the end of Halo 2. I was still waiting for the next level to load while the credits played.

Not as bad as people said.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I originally played this game as a demo and i was impressed despite all the negative comments i had heard about.The game is really fun and is enjoyable.The only things i have wrong with this game is that its really easy even on hard you can easily beat it.The ghost bullet which i a telekinetic controlled bullet is unbelievably cool.Your characters also have other neat and interesting abilities.The only other thing wrong is that your teammates are relatively weak when not controled by yourself.You will be killing enemies and reviving your teammates quite frequently.All in all if your a fan of first person shooters you should definately check out this new spin on first person shooters.

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