![]() ![]() Wiping out zombies is predictably violent work, but apparently working for a record label is almost as brutal, at least according to EA Chicago’s fighting game Def Jam: Icon, in which record company executives must beat up other rappers, paparazzi and anyone else who happens to get in the way.Īs Icon begins, the player is hired to manage musicians at a hip-hop record label, which mainly involves dealing with e-mail requests from musicians to take care of someone who is annoying them. While it doesn’t quite match the strikingly similar BloodRayne from 2003, which also had a sexy zombie-killing heroine with supernatural powers (along with a better title), you can’t help liking a game where you can create a tornado that blows helicopters around like leaves. It is, after all, fun to hurl a truck at a zombie horde on a suburban street. Like many game designers before them, the makers of Witch seem to consider their animations so compelling that people will want to see them hundreds of times.Īll in all, even with its many weaknesses (I haven’t even mentioned the overly brief gameplay or the overly long final battle), I rather enjoyed Bullet Witch. ![]() I got tired of watching her raise her hands to the heavens and call out “taste fear as your soul burns away” and see the clouds sizzle with electricity every single time I needed to blow up a tank or take out a zombie. This isn’t too bad when Alicia calls forth ravens, but the more powerful the spell, the longer the animation. A small but telling annoyance is that each time you cast a spell, you have to watch a little spell-casting animation.
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