Are you ready to kill some zombies and save the innocent people from the evil vampires?
- NA release: 18th November 2002
- EU release: 11th july 2003
- JP release: N/A
- Developer: High Voltage Software
- Publisher: Interplay Entertainment
- NGC Magazine Score: 78%
- Mods Used: Widescreen Code
Hunter: The Reckoning is based on a Tabletop RPG series called World of Darkness, which has had other video game adaptations based on Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The video game of Hunter: The Reckoning is not an RPG, though, and is instead a Gauntlet-style twin stick shooter/melee game where you and three friends cut your way though hundreds of hundreds of undead monsters.
The game is really not meant to be played solo, and you’ll spend far too long just shooting aimlessly into hoards of enemies as it takes far too long to deal with them. In a way to make it easier to pick up and play, the gameplay is extremely simple and if you’ve played the first level, you’re not going to see much else throughout the game. One particularly frustrating aspect are the keys, you don’t explore to find them, but rather just kill countless enemies until one appears.
But the simplicity of it does make it work better for a casual get together to have a bit of a laugh while not paying that much attention to the game, but even by those standards, this seems too simple. Gauntlet: Dark Legacy has a lot more going on at once and just has more charm to it.
Fine
Remake or remaster?
A re-release with online could be enjoyable.
Official Ways to get the game
The Xbox version is available as a backwards compatible game on Xbox One and Series.
GameCube Games by Date
2002: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
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