Game: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Console: Atari 2600
Released: March 1983
World's worst games score: 3.1
Known Ratings: Gamespot user review average 5.9,videgames critic grade F (see review)
Review:
Wizard scored a hit with Halloween, but this video game adaptation is a complete debacle. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is as unpleasant as the movie it's based on. My wife and I saw the 1974 film on video a few years back, and it scared the living [expletive] out of us! Anyway, this is one of the first video games to let you control the "bad guy". You are Leatherface, a chainsaw-wielding masked psycho out to filet as many innocent people as possible before running out of gasoline. The screen scrolls sideways as you search for helpless victims and avoid obstacles including wheelchairs and cow skulls. The gameplay is a complete nightmare. Victims inexplicably disappear before you can touch them, and you're constantly getting hung up on the scenery. Even the graphics are lousy. Leatherface doesn't even resemble the movie character, and the running women look like Fisher Price toys. Their "screaming" is conveyed by ear-piecing tones, which will force all non-deaf gamers to immediately hit the mute button. When you do kill someone, they transform into an indiscernible blob. Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a novelty item with minimal play value. Its pathetic ending shows a person kicking Leatherface in the butt! Please tell me when it's over! (from videogamescritic)
More info:
This game was one of the first horror games ever made. The gameplay is siply this, you are leatherface and you have to kill all trespassers whle avoiding wheelchairs, fences and skulls. Most stores refused to sell the game because the only objective of the game was to kill. The graphics were shoddy and way out of proportion (trees almost quadruple the size of a house). Developer Wizard Games we are sad to say quickly went bust after thier other release Halloween also failed.
Sunday, 23 March 2008
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