KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child

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Customer Reviews:

An original game and Nice Idea [Posted on 2002-03-14]
Overall, I liked playing the game. I think the levels are well thought out and the weapons are pretty original especially Ace's Galaxian. I would reccommend the game to anyone for the gameplay. However, the game is buggy. I did install the latest patch and even tried emailing tech support but nobody answered me. After getting almost halfway throught the game, my game saves disappeared and for some reason the game would not load after running the game twice. It would only work again after a reboot. Also, there are secrets places in the game where you can find pages to the comic book. These pages tell you about your weapons, game items, enemies and other game characters. I am certain I have picked up pages and no new information would be available. For example there is a rage orb that affords you to never run out of ammo. If I could have found that out sooner rather than on the last stage of the game, it would have made things alot easier. There was no game manual to tell me this, you have to find pieces of the manual in the game.

It might be good..if I could open it! [Posted on 2002-06-26]
I don't usually offer reviews but this game is frustrating me.
I finally got it loaded, set my keyboard to my favorite keys and was ready to go! Well...I "went" a couple of times. Once I quit the game and then went back, it wouldn't load! I'm going to uninstall it and reinstall, just to give it one more chance.
The main problem is, I just finished Clive Barkers' Undying and American McGee's Alice. These two games are excellent! I was sad when I finished. In fact...I still go back to Alice. No game can compare to the eerie, unsettling, enchantment that it offers.
The bottom line is that KISS Psycho Circus is not impressing me at all. In the future I will stick with EA Games. Perhaps, if I get it to work, I will come back with a better review. But it still won't hold a candle to Undying or Alice.

Welcome to the Show [Posted on 2006-06-22]
Yey! KISS has their own video game as well! And being a die hard core fan, I of course bought this one.

First off, like the other video games I own, I wasn't the first to play this game. I read online reviews and most of them criticized this game because the screenshots were misleading and because the game was merely overrated. Well, I'll admit, KISS Pyscho Circus: The Nightmare Child isn't a major breakthrough but the story line is fun and in a while it gets addictive.

The plot revolves around a child of evil that has been born. Not to take this statement literally, it means that a new evil has just been stirred by the close-to-defeated Nightmare King. As a last resort, this spawn of Hell as been awakened. Also, during this battle with the Nightmare King, the 4 elders have been scarred and running out of strength. The only person aware of this is Madame Raven, a sorceress, who must devise a plan to ovecome this seed of Satan as well as choose 4 people (to substitute the exhausted Elders) to carry out this task. Meanwhile, 4 band members (with their band name being Wicked Jester, which you will remember was the first band of Paul Stabley and Gene Simmons) arrive at The Coventry, a roadhouse. Of course, they're surprised to find it desolate and deserted. But then Madame Raven, out of the blue, informs them that everyone has gone to see the circus and maybe they should too for the "Grand Finale" (something of an allusion to Armageddon). Then, she offers them 4 tickets to which they readily accept since they have nothing else to do. All of a sudden the four of them are surrounded by mirrors and beyond the looking glass she fills them in on "the path they've chosen".

You have these 4 characters to choose from each representing the personage of the band members itself: Pablo Ramirez (Starbearer like Paul Stanley), Patrick Scott (Beast King like Peter Criss), Andy "Spades" Chang (the Celestial like Ace Frehley), and Gabriel Gordo the Demon like good ol' Gene Simmons. Also notice that their first names begin with the same letter as the band mambers' first names, so that's a hint by itself.

I've read and heard that it's preferable and recommended to start off this game by playing as Pablo Ramirez, but it's no big deal. I picked Pablo because Paul Stanley's my priority (I was lucky enough to have him on the cover of the box). You'll start off the level as Pablo at an abandoned cafe of some kind, and like the typical first person shooter, monsters'll soon start to jump out at you. Pablo's quest, just like the other 3, is to find every piece of his armor (and also stumbling upon new equipment), with the Starchild mask being the last before getting to the real nuts and bolts of it. The final piece of armor, the mask, will then complete him and transform him into the Starchild himself. Even though this has often been related to the humurous Doom and Quake, KISS: Psycho Circus is feverishly difficult even on the Easy level setting, so saving and loading will be done very frequently. I know that there are those classic cheats of having longer lives and completing your armor without having to really look for it, but I've never tried those and it's said that they're not of much help.

Also, this game, like the name suggests, has a circus-related theme. Information on guns, ammunition and armor, will be in the form of circus pamphlets and flyers strewn all over the place, and a few monsters will be in the form of half mechanized clowns (the other half is human. Stephen King's It, anyone?). Plus there are many KISS easter eggs: Jukeboxes play KISS songs (a very robotronic version is to be expected), and there some items and equipment even named after KISS songs like Black Diamond and this drink warehouse called Cold Gin. Also, in this one level, you'll arrive at a pool place and there'll be pictures of individual members of KISS all around room.

The graphics aren't very stunning, but fairly good. While they're not completely 3D, they're not very pixelated and boxy either.

KISS Pyscho Circus: The Nightmare Child is actually pretty fun-filled and eerie. You'll might only be taking some time to warm up to it.

A KISS Fan's Delight [Posted on 2006-11-14]
Ok now I have had this game twice now first time the game was played till it actually finally died so I repurchased it once more the story gives a small throw back to the story in the Album Music of The Elder but it also keeps time to the Comic premiss, if You enjoy RP games, Shooter Games or anything to do with KISS then I highly recommend getting this game.

My thoughts [Posted on 2007-08-06]
This game is just a FPS , nothing more , I enjoy First Person Shooters , but this game is only for Kiss fans and fans of the Comic , I still recamend it , but it won't blow you away like the Tom Clancy Games or Far Cry.

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