09/30/00

Danger Girl

    The popularity of comic book Video Games has been increasing as of late. Series such as Superman, Iron Man, Batman, Spider-Man, even good old Captain America have got into the flow of gaming. Now we are yet again introduced to another famous comic book series Danger Girl. For those who are not familiar with Danger Girl, Danger Girl is based around three very sexy women who perform several different missions in order to destroy their enemy Major Maxim and the evil Hammer Army. The leader of the three, Abby Chase, can show you that looks can be deceiving but she can whip your ass faster then you can say "hello". A lovely Sydney Savage. Last but not least the brains behind the group known as JC. All together these three girls give you four things, Guns, Action, Two large things to look at, and terrible game play!

    Graphically Danger Girl has some pretty interesting features....aaaa character wise that is. It mixes basic elements from basic 3-D shooters and fails to even provide the Tomb Raider quality! The levels are boring and on going making you think when the level will actually end. Then when you actually make it to a interesting area you are ether put down by say five or so more guys, or you die of something else, say a laser. Now lets skip the bad and look at the good. For those of you who have already played Danger Girl you know what I'm talking about. Let me take you back to the beginning... You are Abby Chase in the tropical country of Costa Rica.  After a few nice words with your leader you proceed to remove several articles of clothing..very nice. BOOM! There they are! Two monster size machine gun jumblees to look at. Now after this you think to yourself two things, how can she stand, and when's the next shower scene! Personally everything else about this game didn't matter after this part because all I wanted was more action! Now some of you right now are asking me why am I talking about the characters..aaaa you know, and not the actual graphics, well I'll put it to you nicely, there is nothing more interesting then to see a women get undressed in the world of gaming. Especially when everything else had no interesting qualities.

     Sound is nothing interesting, just your basic digital music trying its best to stand out. Sound effects don't come close to average. Danger Girls sound effects lack the right stuff to be called effects. The gun shots are slow and your footsteps are off beat, then to top it off, the voice of the characters sound as if they are coming from the other room.  If you want better music turn to Tomb Raider, why? Because its the fact that there's almost no music.

     Control in Danger Girl is the worst I have ever seen. For a shooter you need to at least be able to turn extremely quick. Here in Danger Girl you are almost basically dead before you can even turn around and open fire. What Danger Girl attempts to make up for this slow turning and bad control is they add a radar screen. This radar screen does nothing. Normally before the enemy shows up on the radar screen your already being shot at. Control over all is terrible, when I say terrible I mean terrible! Its auto aim is pathetic. Danger Girl attempts to mock Syphon Filters shooting system. In Syphon Filter you have that advantage to be able to shoot from far away areas while in Danger Girl you must be as close as twenty feet away from the enemy to be able to have a right on shot. Danger Girl also tries to make up for this. Here they make you able to take shots from far away using a type of sniper mode. In this sniper mode its frustrating, its hard to get still shots and actually hit the enemy. Thus another mistake from the creators of Danger Girl. What Danger Girl should have done was not make add ons for every mistake made, but actually fixed the mistake.

-Graphics: 3: Not including the getting "undressed" scene, graphically Danger Girl has nothing special to look at. I have seen better graphics in first generation titles then in Danger Girl.

-Sound: 3: I found the sound and music annoying, enough said.

-Control: 2.5: Please do not take any offense to my laughing. This control is close to Tomb Raider only worse! Especially for a shooter. Its attempt to copy both Tomb Raider and Syphon Filter failed in all categories. I'm sorry to say, this is the worst game control wise I have ever, and I mean ever played.

-Replay: 2: After lets say the first level your not going to want to play that level again. Levels are on going and you normally have to re-play them five or six times to get to the end. 

-Over All: 3: Danger Girl looks great on the cover but in this case the beauty is only skin deep.  Danger Girl is not worth a buy, and not even a rent. My advice to you is Danger Danger stay away.

                                         
-Jake

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