Clive Barker's Jericho

When I downloaded the Jericho demo off of the PlayStation Store, I expected a survival-horror style First Person Shooter. (And I HATE survival horror. I scare easily.) But, it has a decent amount of hype behind it, and I wanted to at least give it a shot.

The demo didn't have as much survival horror elements as I expected. There was a timed-button-press sequence near the end which requires quick reflexes. I expected the action would slow down a bit, like in God of War, but it kept going at regular speed. Luckily, the buttons show up in a section of the screen that corresponds with that button's placement on the controller. So that makes it a bit easier to know which button to hit.

The rest of the demo was good. It's apparently set about halfway in the game, where the Jericho team is split. You only have control over three teammates. Which is good for demo purposes, I suppose. The supernatural powers that the team has at their disposal are well done and integrated into gameplay. You'll likely spend most of the demo as Black, and her psychic sniper move is damn cool. She uses her psychic abilities to control her sniper shot, and it can hit up to three enemies. You could get a triple head-shot, if you're good enough.

The last part of the demo is a solo part with Church. She has a decent gun, an awesome sword, and she deals with blood magic. She's also the one with the button sequence mentioned above.

The final part of the team is Delgado. He has a chaingun, and has the ability to call upon fire spirits, and otherwise bend fire to his will. I didn't use him much.

I'm not big on first person shooters. But this game seems okay. It's not a typical shooter, but not many are these days. Old-fashioned run-and-gun doesn't cut it anymore. You need a gimmick. This game's gimmick works pretty well, I think. It's probably not going to go down as the best FPS, but it seems like a good one to check out. You can certainly do a lot worse than this. And who knows, maybe you'll end up really enjoying yourself.