Ultimately Hollywood actors have been involved in video games, have been participants in these giving their voices to characters or being directly characters modeled within a video game. There are many actors who have been part of this, to mention a few: Ramik Malek (Mr. Robot) in Until Daw, Ellen Page (X-Men Saga) in Beyond Two Souls and one of the most recent projects was Death Stranding, which has a pretty big cast of actors and celebrities. And although the fact that actors participate in videogames is not something totally new since many years ago it had also been done (Samuel L. Jackson in GTA San Andreas, to mention one of many), it was until recently years ago that this has increased, so it is not uncommon to see some actor participate in some project of these. However, one of the actors who could least expect to be part of a project of this style is Bruce Willis, highly regarded for having starred in the saga Die Hard. This actor participates in a video game that is really entertaining.
That's why today's Retro Review is about Apocalypse.
As the name of the game clearly indicates, we are in a post-apocalyptic world and we are also many years in the future, a world full of chaos and misery. In this world, science and religion are the only two "forces" that command the world, with each of these "sides" logically having a totally different kind of belief, and because of these differences they are in constant clash of opinions (not much different than what's going on now), but on a more critical and radical level.
On the one hand, science has achieved great technological advances with nano-technology, having a quite big technological impulse in society, but on the other hand, on the religious side, there is a group of believers commanded by "The Reverend", a character and villain with obvious desires of world destruction, who for that reason creates a version of the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse, in such a way that using the nano-technology that he criticizes so much, he wants to provoke a world apocalypse.
To stop the plan this villain, we will be Trey Kincaid (Bruce Willis), since he was in charge of developing the nano-technology used to create the horsemen, now our protagonist must escape from prison to stop the next apocalypse, but before facing the main villain he must defeat the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse and all those who want to face him.
As I said before, Bruce Willis was part of this videogame and his 3D modeling is that of the main character, Trey Kincaid, and it's a modeling that although it's not perfect, by the standards of the time this videogame was released, it's really good, you can easily recognize the actor's face.
In general Apocalypse is a game with a quite decent graphic level to be a game with a quite simple playability, with quite good and varied scenarios, although not with great details, but with light effects and really good that gives it that style of "cyberpunk" quite characteristic, because logically, when we find ourselves in a world located several years in the future, that this game has a "cyberpunk" look was logical and necessary, besides that in spite of the obvious graphic limitations, this game does a good job this aspect. I'm really impressed with this game. Also our main character, despite the fact that the animation set is not very varied, the animations are fluid.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/10d8c155b6e2ccbc53180a9146c32ada/tumblr_mqtbn9ayC71roqda3o1_r1_500.gifv
System of a Down, since I was younger has always been my favorite band, in fact, when I created my Youtube account, many years ago, the profile picture of my account is the cover of the album "System of a Down" (that album with one hand on the cover) and since then I have never changed it. But what does this have to do with the review of this game, and that is that in Apocalypse we can find a song of this band. During this "adventure" we will go through different scenarios and in them there are giant screens showing different things, and one of those things is a video clip of System of a Down, exactly the song "War". When I saw that video clip of my favorite band I was totally amazed, because I never expected it and that's why I give it 10/10 in the sound section. Well, getting more serious, actually the soundtrack of this videogame is good, with quite "industrial" melodies, so to speak", in a way they allude to all that depressing atmosphere that this game presents us. Regarding the sound effects, they are correct and necessary, I don't have much to say about this aspect, on the other hand. Bruce Willis not only gave his appearance to the main character, since he also recorded a few phrases for Trey Kincaid to repeat while we're playing, there really aren't many, but some are funny.
Video Author
Apocalypse can be categorized as a 3rd person shooter, an action game and a platform game (although the platform section is sometimes a bit desperate). This is a game where there will be action and shooting from start to finish, really quite entertaining that will distract us for a few hours.
It's a pretty linear game, so there won't be any other routes to go, something that, due to the theme and genre of this video game is quite logical, but this doesn't make it boring, even though in terms of enemy design they aren't very varied, it's quite the opposite, it's due to that quite aggressive and fast gameplay, it makes this game very fun. We will be in constant movement, shooting, dodging and climbing on platforms. Besides that we have different types of weapons throughout this adventure that will make more dynamic the way we eliminate our enemies.
I think Apocalypse can be considered a little gem within the great catalogue of the old but beloved PlayStation 1, which with its mistakes and shortcomings, is a videogame that is genuinely great fun despite its appearance and aesthetics (although I consider it quite good). It also has a cameo of my favorite band. However, I can't help but wonder how much Bruce Willis was paid to participate in a video game, in which he only gave his image and recorded a few sentences? There's no doubt that being such a renowned actor has its merits.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/d0a3c99d633ce2adef3584c832d86da5/tumblr_mfcm1f5RFC1qb1m9to1_500.gifv
