However, you can pick up objects, throw switches, and choose your path to add a hint of variety to the action. The basic action of the game is continually pressing the attack button until your character pulls off a combo of moves and finishes off the opponent. But beyond all the glitz is the gameplay, which is the nearly the same as Final Fight and any one of its many clones. Some awesome visuals, a solid soundtrack, and the extremely unique idea make Comix Zone an interesting game. And instead of simply running from left to right, you move frame-to-frame through a comic book with the bad guys being drawn in along the way. There's no recognizable hero like Spider-man - instead the hero is an unknown fictional comic artist who is stuck in the pages of his own book. And while we have seen nearly a gazillion (a rough estimate) comic book heroes in video games, there has never been anything quite like Comix Zone. Sketch can't move rapidly around the panel, and button slamming yields unpredictable results.Ĭomics and video games are as natural a combo as deafness and roc'n'roll, they're just made to go together. Too bad the controls are imprecise and somewhat unresponsive. Sketch has a nice assortment of moves, including punches, kicks, jump kicks, blocks, and a shoulder ram. The combat in each panel is basically hand-to-hand, beat- em-up style. The challenge in each panel is to bust up enemy gangs, solve simple puzzles, or sometimes to accomplish both. To complete a page, Sketch must fight his way from panel to panel. To stay alive, you must maneuver through the comic strip's six pages.Įach Comix Zone page is laid out as a series of panels just like a real comic.

When Mortus, a comic villain, warps from your strip into the real world, you're warped into the Comix Zone. You're Sketch Turner, a comic-strip artist.

Despite gorgeous graphics and a clever page-by-page layout, the game's erratic controls and repetitive gameplay hold it back.

Comix Zone tries to do what no game has really done successfully to date: Capture the authentic look and feel of a comic book and make it come alive in a game.

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