Revenant PC Game

Revenant is an action-intensive role-playing game that involves a lot of combat and not much else. It isn't a blatant Diablo rip-off like Darkstone, but its isometric perspective and its emphasis on character interaction of the violent variety mean that Revenant ought to appeal to the same crowd that enjoyed Blizzard's hit. However, although Revenant is also a great-looking game that's fun to play, it constantly threatens to break apart at the seams. Its hero, a bitter and menacing Ken Wahl-lookalike named Locke, is brought back from the dead to serve his masters - but it's the game rather than its protagonist that most closely resembles Frankenstein's monster. Just as Revenant is an impressive accomplishment in many ways, so too is it a disjointed collection of features that are at least as repellent as they are cohesive.

Revenant's Locke is exceptionally lifelike for a dead man. His strange jitterbug walk isn't flattering, but once he takes up a fighting stance and starts swinging his two-handed sword, he becomes quite the showman. In fact, the motion-captured animation that brings Locke and many of his enemies to life makes the game look terrific and unique. The continuous combat in Revenant quickly takes on the realistic and dynamic appearance of an action movie and makes the game both exciting to play and to watch. Locke leaps around with whopping sword combinations and flying kicks, smashes huge spiders with his boots, and lops off his enemies' heads as his battle cries drown out their gurgling death screams - the action is totally over the top. If anything, the game would have benefited from a little restraint - Locke's enemies die the same way over and over, which eventually takes the edge off watching and listening to ninjas and such choke on their own blood as they melodramatically stumble about.