Now Zeno Clash would not be a game I would Have bought for myself but thanks to my Brother I was able to play it .
Zeno Clash is a first person shooter/beat them up, more a beat them up than a shooter. Based around a character called Ghat you are being hunted by your bothers for killing the farther-mother. Your reason for doing this is because you find out the farther-mothers secret and that secret is how you became its child. Take as a baby from your mother you discover this and take revenge. Your bothers are unaware of the real reasons for you doing this untill the end after you have defeated the evil farther-mother and there the story ends.
Now at first glance the graphics were average at best and there was not a lot going on in the small areas that where to be the full levels, the character designs were very strange some tall, slim and had arms and legs as long as the body to normal human models. the amount of characters you came across were few and far between, not in the sence of how many enemies where on the map but how many different character models you came across. there where no more than 15 different enemies in the game and on each chapter you came across the same ones fighting them in every level up to the point you had ten of them coming at you at once.
The hand to hand combat was good and worked well with the option of locking on to the enemy for better focus but this became old really quickly and the lock-on was more of a problem than a help when you could not just run away to get some distance to find some health, A lot of the time you would find yourself dying due to the fact you could not get away. once two or more enemies came at you at once and started hitting you with combos from a few sides there was no chance of getting away from them and I ended up dying a lot of times due to this and it got very frustrating. the weapon combat was slow and a pain. you stopped reloading once you got hit and there was no auto reload once your gun was empty so remembering to reload while getting rushed was a pain, and the fact you dropped your weapon when you got hit by a melee attack got old fast when you had to run around trying to pick it up again only to drop it while reloading, there where only a small amount of guns to use and two different melee weapons which where only really effective after you charged up your power attack but that tuck so much time you found your self getting hit before you could use it effectively. There was not a great deal of action all in all it just made it longer than what it was due to the blocking of you attacks and the number of enemies you came up against at once.
The overall game play was Ok at best and the graphics where nothing to shout about but add into that the main story only taking three and a half hours to complete was very poor indeed. There is a challenge mode in there but i did not waste my time even trying it as I was just glad when the game was finished with.
Anyone that wans a quick, very basic built game that looks like something that was put together quicker than a piece of Lego go and buy it other wise stay clear and use that cash to buy something much better.
