Robert D. Anderson & the Legacy of Cthulhu review

Could've been spawned by the mighty Zoidberg himself

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Pros

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    Great license! Sigh...

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    Will remind you of good FPS games

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    It's "cheap"

Cons

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    Still not worth the price

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    Ugly

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    with a bad framerate

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    Tedious gameplay

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Dec 18, 2007

If a work is created from within the fandom, then surely that mixture of expertise, passion and knowledge will craft a masterpiece, right? Some hope. But that’s unfair, because this Lovecraft-derived storyline of an investigator who descends into madness is fairly engrossing. Still, the writers probably should have got pros to design the game itself, because the storytelling is interspersed with some of the most bitterly tedious FPS sections ever devised.

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GenreShooter
DescriptionDefinitive proof that H.P. Lovecraft's creation does NOT make for a good videogame.
PlatformPC
UK censor rating18+
Release date(US), 21 July 2007 (UK)
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Alex Dale
Alex Dale
Hello! I'm the former Deputy Editor of Official Xbox Magazine, and worked on mags such as NGamer, Xbox World and PC Zone, so I definitely have some idea of what is and what isn't a video game. Outside of gaming, my hobbies include birdwatching, canoeing, tennis, ice hockey and travel - particularly to far-flung parts of the world where nature still rules supreme.