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Reign Of Fire is such an underrated film, and its game even more so, that to see any love for either comes as a shock, and that's even after being involved in this project for the last few weeks. From the batlike wings and scaly hides, to the wide, wide variety of horns displayed by each dragon caste, you've captured the essence of these.

Reign of Fire is an action-adventure video game released in 2002 by Kuju Entertainment. The game is based on the movie of the same name, in which dragons have annihilated the majority of the human race, and the survivors attempt to fight back using scavenged military hardware. However, the plot differs significantly from the film.

Reign Of Fire Game Review

Based on the movie, Reign of Fire lets you play as either a human or a dragon in an epic battle. As a human, you'll take the role of a resistance fighter who's trying to defend the last remaining. Without ‘Reign of Fire’ CGI Dragons Would Probably Suck We spoke to the film’s director about how Harry Potter and Game of Thrones took advantage of Reign’s technical innovations.

Gameplay

The game allows the player to play as both a dragon and a human. As a human, the player takes the role of a survivor, in a third person vehicle-based shooter - tanks and jeeps most notably, which can all carry rockets and machine gun turrets; if the player is touched by fire from a dragon they must find water to douse the flames or they will die.

As a dragon, the player takes the role of a maturing dragon able to use fireballs to engage targets at range, napalm breath to set targets alight and using their talons to pick up items (including enemy combatants) and use them as makeshift bombs to attack ground targets.

Plot

The game's story is divided into 2 campaigns; human and dragon. The human campaign loosely follows the plot of the film, though with significant differences. Meanwhile, the dragon campaign chronicles the early years of the human/dragon war up to the game's present timeline. The dragon campaign also features an alternate ending in the final mission.

Why it Sucks

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1. Very long loading times, which can sometimes take up to 50 seconds to load.
2. The game sometimes randomly crashes or freezes.
3. Objectives in this game are really generic, basically they just consist of things like, 'Go to this point and kill stuff,' and 'Now go here and kill more stuff.' Later in the game, your objectives will be laid out at the beginning of each mission, making the gameplay feel dull and uninspired.
4. The only enemies you will face in this game are the dragons, making the variety of enemies rather lazy and boring.
5. Poor and dated graphics that look like an early Dreamcast game. The color palette even borrows heavily from the one used in the movie, resulting in a dark, drab and washed out look throughout.
6. The story is weak.
7. Control scheme is sluggish and unresponsive, since the vehicle always drives whatever direction the cursor is pointed.
8. When you're on fire, the fire won't go out by itself unless you shoot a water pipe. This can be painful at times when you're in the middle of nowhere and there's no water pipes.
9. Unexciting action, all you do is shoot dragons that are in the sky breathing fire down on you, your comrades and guns aimed skyward.
10. Inconsistent frame-rate.
11. The music is extremely bland and forgettable.
12. Mediocre sound effects.
13. Bad physics.
14. The gameplay is very repetitive and boring.
15. The NPC's often act pretty dumb. In missions in which one of the victory conditions is to protect them, they do very little to keep themselves out of danger, and if they're set on fire, they'll do nothing to extinguish themselves.
16. Abysmally emotionless voice acting.
17. After you complete the human campaign, you get to choose to play as the dragon, while this sounds like a nice touch to the game and brings good replay value, the control for the dragon is so stiff that it doesn't bring any fun that the dragon campaign offered.
18. Lack of replay value.
19. The game also uses motion-blur and camera-shaking effects whenever you sustain severe damage, fire a powerful weapon, or use the dragon's speed rush maneuver. The effect is so overused that it can become annoying quickly.

Redeeming Qualities

1. The levels are pretty detailed as they are filled with scorched trees, burned-out cars, and damaged buildings.
2. Cool vehicle models.
3. The visuals look very good.

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