![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll basically be switching between Legions depending on what you're up against, so there's an element of strategy involved in how you tackle each level. But given that you can only earn experience points for your Legions if they've actually been equipped, you have to make a decision early on which ones you find most effective.Įach enemy in the game is either organic or metallic. As you progress through the game, you're rewarded with more Legions to choose from, up to a maximum of seven. Oddly enough, if you defeat these 'queen' enemies, every other enemy within the level immediately dies, basically allowing you to bypass most enemies and concentrate on the end of level target - but should you choose to battle meticulously through every creature you've be rewarded with more experience points, which you're then allowed to spend on upgrading whichever Legions you've been using between missions.Įvery Legion is effectively comprised of five main areas of upgradeability, including Attack, Defence, plus areas relating to their power and special attacks. This ability to lock on is especially important, as each level (and sub-level) houses a number of 'targets' which you have to destroy before you can move onto the next section. Futhermore, hitting triangle then unleashes a special attack, while hitting square orders your troops to lock onto a particular opponent. Hitting L1 brings one of two selectable teams of heavies into the fray, which will by default act aggressively and attack anything in sight, or form a defensive shield around you if you press R2. Very quickly it becomes apparent that playing Chaos Legion on your lonesome is near enough impossible, thus requiring you to call for back up at particularly intense moments. To begin with, the game's gentle enough to allow you just to stab square repeatedly until everyone's shuffled off into oblivion, but by the third section of level one you'll probably be wondering what this Legion business is all about. The game starts as it means to go on with a whole crowd of bizarre enemies clustered around waiting to die at your hands. In a nutshell, you've got to put a stop to these evil plans with your elite combat skills and your ever-willing legion of helpers against an army of aggressors. Kill the bad guys, save the worldĪpparently Sieg's oldest ally - Victor Delacroix - has been consumed by the forces of evil, and wants to deliver chaos on the world. Even though the story is basically superfluous to the action, we get one anyway (well, they have to make use of that excellent CG studio don't they?). Instead of Dante, we get 'master swordsman' Sieg Wahrheit, a similarly chiselled man with superior sword-wielding skills, flowing wardrobe and coiffured barnet to match anything the gothic prince of DMC could boast. Any hint of complicated gaming should be cast out of your mind, for at its throbbing heart, Chaos Legion is a back to basics, level-based button masher that requires gamers to despatch whatever evil-doers cross your path with a hefty swish of a mighty blade. It's a familiar tactic of Capcom's - after Resident Evil came Dino Crisis, then Onimusha, which in turn employed the RPG-style upgrade system that both DMC and now Chaos Legion employ.īut if we're scaring off action gamers with talk of RPG shenanigans, fear not. After the success of Devil May Cry it was inevitable that the successful hackandslash formula and superb game engine would spawn a sister title with a twist. ![]()
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