Constantine download for pc

Constantine is a third-person action-adventure that follows the plot of the demon-possession and nifty camera effect-stuffed film - nicknamed The Matrix-orcist by certain wags. Somehow, it's found its way on to the PC, despite looking, sounding, playing, behaving and smelling of a console game. Although there are some neat gameplay touches choking beneath the sulphuric fumes, this is mostly ultra-linear, film-licensed fare. The main gimmick in Constantine is that the action regularly switches between Earth and hell, with the trenchcoatwearing occultist able to pass between the different realms by reciting magical incantations when, ahem, he's standing in a puddle of water.

Copying the convention in the Soul Reaver games, the devilish locations are twisted versions of the Earth ones, so the relatively normal appearance of a library is transformed into a gutted building with tortured souls nailed to walls, apocalyptic red skies, fiery blasts of sulphuric winds and various nasty creatures who're obviously not looking to borrow the latest John Grisham. However, Satan's spawn also appears on earth in a variety of ghoulish guises, including scaly Scavenger Soldier grunt, the fire-breathing Kan-Gore devil dragon, and the spider-like scuttling Bile-Riz, that can possess and re-animate corpses.

The monsters are actually quite well done in most cases, with the Vermin Demon -a wriggling mass of rats, spiders, moths and snakes - being a disturbing highlight. Fortunately, Constantine has a heavenly armoury of weapons to send the unholy horrors back to hell, many of them ripped straight from the pages of Alan Moore's comic.

Particular favourites are the Crucifier nailgun, the Purger crossbow and the Dragon's Breath flamethrower. Each of these is best used in conjunction with physical punches and kicks, secondary weapons like the Holy Water Bombs and Constantine's magic spells see 'Nasty Spells' right.

Such a shame. The building blocks of a half-decent game are here, it's just that the execution of them is so mediocre: shoot some monsters, solve a rudimentary puzzle, watch a cut-scene, shoot some more monsters, go into hell, shoot even more monsters, get an artefact, watch another cutscene, fight the end-of-level boss. Constantine gets samey very quickly, and that's despite unlocking more spells and weapons as you progress.

Everything seems to have been crow-barred in just for the sake of it from other games, such as Constantine's 'True Sight' ability to see in the dark Chronicles Of Riddick and the degree slo-mo bullet-time move Max Payne that enables you to turn quickly -useless until you encounter the Impaler, who has a very handy weak spot on his back.

However, the unforgivable crime is that aiming and looking around with the mouse is awkward, making Constantine appear as if the years of fighting demons has given him some kind of twitchy nervous disorder.

You can alter the sensitivity of the mouse, but this only makes things worse, making frenetic melee confrontations downright un-enjoyable and frustrating - you have to keep the console staple of auto-aim switched on just to make it playable.

An incomprehensible plot concerning a half-breed angel and strange secondary characters don't help matters either, although at least Constantine has Keanu's likeness, with his trademark monosyllabic Californian drawl imitated with some success. Constantine is sub-Max Payne -there's nothing surprising or challenging here that you haven't seen in a thousand other film-to-game conversions over the past five years.

Level desiqn is depressingly lacklustre, and the puzzles - some of which require you to nip back and forth between Earth and hell - are of the 'move box, climb up ledge' and 'turn valve, switch off steam jets' variety. There isn't even a jump button - you run towards gaps and automatically leap -along with bad examples of clipping and characters walking straight through solid objects.

The game is based on the events of the same title in the film. Your goal is to discover why the demons managed to get to Earth despite the fact that ancient books strictly forbid it. By using magic and various weapons you will have to face hundreds of demons.

While performing the mission you will often visit hell a world similar to earth, but all on fire to get to a specific destination. Important Information: Abandonwaregames. To the best of our knowledge, these games are no longer available on the market and are not supported by publishers. If you know otherwise, write to us. MyAbandonware More than old games to download for free! Browse By Developer Bits Studios Ltd. Perspective Behind view. Download 1. Captures and Snapshots Windows.

Write a comment Share your gamer memories, help others to run the game or comment anything you'd like. Send comment. Download Constantine We may have multiple downloads for few games when different versions are available. In the center of the story is the confrontation between Heaven and Hell, and John Constantine will solve their conflict and cancel Armageddon - expelling evil spirits back from where they got out. The earth is only a battleground for the warring parties of another dimension.

But the problem is that they cannot fight directly. Therefore, they use cunning and push other personalities to commit bloody acts or use the services of half-breeds. Protagonist Keanu Reeves, or rather, John hates both sides equally. He can easily move between the human world and Hell. To do this, it is enough to find a source of water.