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Review: Hunted: The Demon's Forge

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This is a different game you've played before. In the thought process of making a Gears of War clone, Inxile Entertainment and Bethesda had the idea that few have been able to get coded properly. "Let's use swords and bows instead of guns and chainsaws!" Thus is born Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

In Hunted you play as E'Lara, who I will simply refer to as Elara. You can also technically play as Caddoc, but nobody is going to play as him. Elara is a scantily clad elf chick, and in this universe, one of the few remaining elves, as they got into a fight with the minotaurs and got eaten. Elara is not as typical as normal Tolkien elves because of her attitude. She wants to murder everything and is not content to breed like humans and restore her race. Elara quips majestic and shoots things with her assortment of bows, talking shit like a 13 year old on Xbox Live about her kill count and calling her younger human companion an old man.

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She and her mercenary buddy Caddoc, the brutish sword and board tactician, beat shit up through their adventures to save some town and a bunch of people taken captive in said town from your generic orcs (known as Worgar in this game). You are directed on your quest by super pale Xena Warrior Princess with a tit job, an ass like whoa, a thong that has to be cutting off circulation, and very little leather. Her physical body has been kidnapped so her spirit is guiding you through your quest while offering cryptic hints and lots of tit shots. You'll kill the assortment of orcs, spiders, orc-spiders, giant spiders, minotaurs, skeletons, and chicks with their heads mounted on staves.

As far as the combat goes, it's pretty damn solid in my opinion. The bows have a good feel to them, hitting where you aim at in an over the shoulder but closer to the aiming point of the weapon way. Melee combat is third person as well, the shield doing a good job of blocking hits but (realistically) they aren't invincible. You will quickly need to replace them with the shields dropped by enemies and sitting on walls, the same going for weapons and bows. It's a cover based shooter so you can duck behind the chest high walls and pepper your enemies or just dodge around as you fire, picking off enemies Caddoc has stunned or used his area of effect stunning spell thing to raise them in the air for easy headshots.

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A sloppy execution system was added to get kills on already dead enemies, letting a slow motion arrow lazily zoom towards the target regardless of the direction you were facing. Many pathways are set up to be one way movement zones, with small jumps to make via mini cutscene, small gaps to look at Elara's ass as you duck under or slide sideways through, or the heavy doors that require both of you to lift while the characters quip about how normal people must have gone through here or how they want to kill whoever made said doors.

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Hunted can be played as a single player game, with many zones to upgrade your skills and generic magic, as well as look at the glowing purple spires you're supposed to use to change your character and then continue to keep going as the elf. The game is also co-op and while it's great to play with a friend, you can't do it split screen on either consoles or the console port on the PC. There are a few places with graphical errors that can make things a little annoying; some parts of it look very Unreal 1 engine for some reason while the rest looks like the game's very nice Unreal 3 engine.

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Overall I enjoy the game myself. Others might not, calling it "Gears of Warcraft" for example, but it's medieval combat (ala the old school game Rune) and is a good length. Pick it up on Steam if you are part of the PC gaming master race once it gets a nice sale or buy it cheap for your console in your preferred purchasing place.

And no, you cannot play 2 hot elf chicks, one of you has to wear the penis.

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Comments

  1. Cayos -
    Cayos's Avatar
    Looks interesting, I might give it a try. Does the game support LAN or is it steam servers only?
  2. Sonomaa -
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    yes it supports lan