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Kiss-A dream come true to millions,The Nightmare Child

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: August 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Kiss has done it again! The game ,reminiscent of Doom,only much more entertaining,lets you choose your fave warrior,The King Of Beasts ,The Starbearer,The Demon,or Celestial(Whom we know well as Peter,Paul,Gene,& Ace).Each warrior has its own realm,where you as its player,must complete the task of eradicating every enemy hurling towards you,endlessly.Also while playing, you can listen to cool Kiss music .But I won't reveal everything here,it'll just lose all the magic this game has in its power.A real mesmerizing game ,for Kiss die-hard fans & non-fans alike,it's the ultimate in rock/video gaming experience!

For KISS Fans

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was not what I thought it would be. It appeals to me because I am a big KISS fan! The game play is straight forward. Move through the enviornments and kill monsters in search of the pieces of your KISS costume. It takes time to get through each phase. You start out as Paul and end with Gene. You switch characters once you have the full costume and have completed all tasks.You will collect different weapons unique to each character. It is fun, but the controls are a little difficult to get use to. The graphics are average. The instruction book does not give you a clue as to what you need to do or how to do it. If you like to play first person shooters and like KISS, you will like this game. Otherwise keep looking.

Not bad at all.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm not a fan of first person shooters or Kiss; if you feel the same, read on. I recieved this game as a gift, when I got around to trying it out I was pleased to find the levels to be a perfect balance between challenge and fun. Not too dark (although I believe this is some variant of the Quake II or III engine). The game is fun to play, and I love the default control setup (use the analog pad to look around, the colored buttons to move around, and the triggers to use weapons).

Quake III and Unreal are both more impressive for graphics, but they are designed to be multiplayer games. This game game has story element and most important it's fun and addictive.

And as others have stated here (as well as myself) you do not have to be a fan of Kiss to enjoy this game, it's based off a comic book that's loosely based around the band. Kiss music is used in this game about as much as Nine Inch Nails music was used in the original Quake, it's transparent and blends with game play.

Four stars.

First Person and Kiss fans only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: November 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Kiss Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child is mildly entertaing first person shooter the graphics are decent the controls are allright using the 4 buttons as movement keys and the analog stick as your look mecanism. There is a smattering of Kiss music in the game and you get to see the characters develop as they find pieces of their armor. The single person mode is fun enough but the weapons aren't varied enough they should have put more in the game. There are 4 worlds one for each Kiss band member and 23 nemesis. What the dreamcast version of this game is missing is ANY KIND OF MULTIPLAYER online or otherwise, they rushed this title out without developing any multiplayer or online modes. Seeing how nicely the DC is handling online play this is just outrageous for a newly released fps, no excuses. This is why the title garners 3 stars its for die hard single player fps or die hard kiss fans although I am not sure that it will satisfy either.

Dissapointment

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What can I say what a letdown. While I am not a huge kiss fan, I do like the show they put on. The graphics are ok,game is fairly, straightfoward kill! Unless you are like a big Kiss fan stay away and wait for Half Life

this game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this game is kind of fun once you figure out how to move and stuff but the game is a challange and it isn't that bad but it is long you have to beat the game 5 times to actully beat it but overall it is a cool game

A great game, no matter what music you like.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I'm a Kiss fan. Actually, for Kiss fans, this game may be a little bit of a letdown. You don't ever get to "see" Kiss in the game. The characters which develop one piece of armor at a time are all first person, so the only Kiss visuals are the odd mirror and occasional album cover. Other than that, there are references galore (a battle in a club called Coventry, Cold Gin billboards, monsters called Strutters, etc.). This game does not have many references at all to the MacFarline comic - just a few screenshots of artwork from the books. The storyline is totally different - but VERY good. It's a macabre game, for sure, but it's a lot of fun if you like things like "Doom."

Ignore all the folks who dismiss this game. It rocks!

Not a very good game...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As other reviewers have noted this game is very dark. Not dark in an "evil" way but dark in that there is not good lighting and it is hard to see stuff. Like another guy said, when you play this game you have to turn the brightness on your TV all the way up in order to even have a chance of being able to see what is going on in this game. And that sucks.

The other big problem is the controls, you use the joystick to look around but it is inverted so pushing forward makes you look down, etc kind of like an airplane yoke. It is hard to get used to. And then you use the four buttons to move. Ugh. Using buttons for movement is awkward. Simply put: The controls for this game suck.

If the game wasn't so dark then it might be worth it to take the time to master the flaky control setup but with the darkness and bad controls this game is just not even worth playing.

Lame...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 07, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, I like KISS but this first person shooter is horrible. The enemies are super easy to kill, its not realistic and there is no real challenge to the game. The only reason this one gets 2 stars is the good graphics and you get to listen to KISS tracks while you play. My advice is to wait till Half-Life and Soldier of Fortune come to the Sega DC, they are much better and a lot more challenging. You'll just be disatisfied with Kiss Psycho Circus.

THIS WAS GARBAGE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: December 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game was COMPLETE GARBAGE. I did not even try to return it. Let it sit in a landfill so it can relieve somebody from the tedium of trying to play it.

And why does KISS deny its poser-metal phase of the 1980s? I wanted to play as Paul Stanley wearing yellow spandex and fingerless elbow length pink gloves like he had on in the "Tears Are Falling" video. Didn't the developers think that some of us like the KISS disco song? Why isn't it there? "Lick it Up" is missing too. And why are we stuck with Gene/Paul/Ace/Peter when Vinny Vincent could have been included? They could have at least included a screen shot of the cover of "Animalize".

It is time for KISS to break up. They are an utter joke. They should retire and live on their glory days of the 70s and 80s.

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