Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge
| Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | BAP Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Platform(s) | DOS |
| Release | 1995 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge is a first-person shooter computer game developed by American studio BAP Interactive and published in 1995 by Electronic Arts for DOS.[1] Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge is a PC-FMV game made loosely based on the movie of the same name.[citation needed] This game is very scarce due to its poor controls and bad camera angles.[citation needed] The game has been criticized as being a "Doom rip-off".[citation needed] Most of the reception of the game has been mostly negative towards the gameplay, camera angles, and not knowing where to go.[citation needed]
Gameplay
The game is a first-person shooter and includes several video clips taken from Pumpkinhead II.[2]
Reception
The game was poorly-received.[3]
Bloodwings was reviewed in PC Gamer US, which rated the game 46% and stated "If I'm going to watch a horror film, I'd rather see the whole thing the way it was meant to be seen, in a theater or on my TV, rather than playing a third-rate shooter for a few minutes, then watching intermittent clips of block, grainy video. About the only good things that came out of my time with Bloodwings are that I now know how to save some money and wait for the movie's release on video - and you know not to buy this game."[4]
Entertainment Weekly gave the game a C and complained that the game's dungeons were difficult to navigate.[2]
The reviewer in Computer Gaming World #135 (October 1995) commented that "the action gets completely bogged down in mediocre graphics, muddy controls and hokey schmoo-looking creatures. The scary thing is, the game might be better than the movie."[5]
A reviewer in German magazine PC Player (Jul, 1995) called it strange 3D action adventure,[6] and a reviewer in German magazine PC Games (Jul, 1995) said that only manufacturers like Bullfrog, Origin, or LucasArts could keep the genre of 3D action games alive while the market was overflowing with them.[7]
Reviews
- LeveL #9 (10/1995)
- Score #21 (09/1995)
- Flux (Oct, 1995)
References
- ^ "Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge for DOS (1995)". Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ a b Strauss, Bob (18 August 1995). "News". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ "Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge (Game)". Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ PC Gamer Vol. 2 No. 9 (1995 September)
- ^ https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_135/page/n35?q=Bloodwings%3A+Pumpkinhead%27s+Revenge
- ^ https://archive.org/details/PC-Player-German-Magazine-1995-08/page/n81?q=Bloodwings%3A+Pumpkinhead%27s+Revenge
- ^ https://archive.org/details/pcgamesmagazine-1995-08/page/n55?q=Bloodwings%3A+Pumpkinhead%27s+Revenge