Not everyone on board is infected though, and this is where the game displays some determination to drag itself out of crippling mediocrity. With a wooden stake strapped to your wrist and an increasingly lethal selection of projectile weapons at your side, your imperative is to save your sorry ass and get to the chopper. It's five years after the film and you've been locked up on a prison tanker, but you get a chance at freedom when a group of vampires touch down and start to infect everyone on the ship. You play as Seth Gecko, looking enough like George Clooney to maintain the connection without attracting any unwanted legal attention. It also has possibly the weakest licence of all time - a five-year-old film, with a bizarre plot that lends itself to a computer game about as well as a teary cabaret musical, and no access to likenesses of the key actors.ĭeveloper Gamesquad has thus opted to make its game a loose sequel that bears very little resemblance to the source material. It's French, it's a low-budget first/third-person shooter, and its biggest claim to fame is that Hubert ( Alone in the Dark) Chardot penned the script - which is passably generic at best. Let's face it though, the odds were against this one from the start. Crushing linearity and an insane preponderance of intrusive cut-scenes betray an overzealous cinematisation, while poor production values and uninspired gameplay hark back to a more traditional paradigm. In a heartstopping twist, From Dusk Till Dawn has managed to tread a tightrope between the two. While those golden days are behind us, the bigger worry these days is that the developers will get the whole 'film' thing into their heads and take a crack at that nemesis of decent gameplay, the interactive movie.

In simpler times, all you had to worry about when confronted with a minor film-licensed game was the likelihood that it was a soulless, formula-driven cash-in, probably a generic shooter, probably complete nob.

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