Infernal embraces style over substance, resulting in a dull and repetitive shooting experience.
The Good: It looks pretty; ummm, it doesn't crash.
The Bad: Dull, repetitive gameplay; makes the act of shooting a chore; wastes its interesting setting and premise; short single-player campaign, no multiplayer, little replayability.
"All in all, I think Infernal is better suited as an arcade shooter than anything else. Nothing about the game particularly stands out, the level design is simple, the storyline is generic, the graphics are of the current generation, and the gameplay is mediocre at best."
"Infernal has very little interest in fighting against any of the clichés of videogaming. This serves to make it both somewhat objectionable and the sort of thing you can accidentally lose a weekend to that you honestly did not enjoy. In its better moments it's a guilty pleasure, in its worst it's embarrassingly retrograde. By being consistently fairly slick with it, it easily avoids skimming the lowest depths, but really it's the kind of game we've all long since grown out of."
Something worth noting when you consider your actions with the IPO.... this game was released on Steam as well as in boxed form. I recall it being one of the "featured" games on the service (i.e., it got its own little pop-up), so keep that in mind from here on.
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