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Infernal

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ESRB: Blood,Language - Mild,Violence
Publisher: Eidos
Genre(s): Shooting
Home Page: http://www.infernalgame.com

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By: Jarno Kokko May 24, 2007

Hell or Heaven?

Toasty flamethrower - one of the best examples of such a weapon in a game.

Infernal is bit of an oddball game. The gameplay concepts are not that dissimilar to a wide array of critically acclaimed titles such as Half-Life, Max Payne or Deus Ex, but I guess today we expect a bit more than artificially limited obstacle courses, no matter how well you shiny up the looks. Shortcomings in details such as cutscene animations, voice acting and script don't exactly help, and while Infernal would have been considered a fine title in the past, these days the bar is just so much higher that it leaves Infernal in the hell reserved for mediocrity.

On the upside Infernal is well-polished, bug-free and smooth to play - even on a slightly older system - and the visuals are good. If you consider that this is a game from a small and fairly unknown Polish development team, it could be much worse. Might be still worth taking a look, at least once you find it in the discount bin.

A jetpack? Damn, good guys get all the neat toys

Welding Gun, when you absolutely positively need to melt the guy.

Summary of YouGamers Hardware Testing

The publisher of this game state the following specifications for their minimum and recommended requirements:

Component	Publisher's Minimum	Publisher's Recommended
Processor	Pentium IV 1.7 GHz or equivalent	Dual core 3.0 Ghz processor
Memory	512 MB	1024 MB
Graphics Card	Pixel Shader 2.0 compatible	Shader Model 3.0 compatible video card
Graphics Card Example	ATI Radeon 9600/NVidia 5950 class or better	NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128MB / ATI Radeon X1300 128MB
Free Disk Space	2 GB	2 GB
Net Link	NA	NA

To learn more about how YouGamers performs its hardware testing, click here. Through our extensive gameplay and hardware testing across the full spectrum of PC configurations, YouGamers suggests that one should use the following guidelines for an appropriate minimum and recommended setup:

Component	YouGamers Minimum	YouGamers Recommended
Processor	AMD Athlon XP 2200+ / Intel Pentium 4 2200 MHz	AMD Athlon X2 3800+ / Intel Pentium D 3000 MHz
Memory	1024 MB	1024 MB
Graphics Card	ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB / NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128MB	ATI Radeon X1800 GTO 256MB / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT 256MB
Free Disk Space	2 GB	2 GB
Net Link	NA	NA

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Gameplay	71	Just your average shooter with some supernatural abilities tossed in for extra taste. Sacrifices realism in the name of gameplay but overall the package works fairly well - there just isn't that much to see in terms of amount of content or originality.
Graphics	85	Looks good and employs tons of effects candy. Texture quality varies, but it's generally acceptable and the physics effects work as advertised.
Audio	63	Voice acting ranges from passable to outright horrible, and the weak B-grade plot that is carried by the acting sure does not help. Music and effects are mediocre.
Technology	82	Technologically fairly polished, with a (limited) PhysX hardware support as a bonus, but it doesn't really present anything new. Most of the technology used is already old but on the upside, everything Just Works™ without any visible bugs or crashes.

OVERALL

A generic shooter that will keep you entertained for a few days. The general story concept of a clash between the forces of good and evil is fine, but the actual plot is full of holes. Abuses some annoying design conventions from the past and doesn't even bother to innovate - decisively average and far too short.

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