Hunted: The Demon's Forge (Sony Playstation 3, 2011)

You have your "burly warrior guy" and your "look-at-my-boobs" female archer; you've got your generic undead/goblin-y/orc-y bad guys; and you've got a storyline and setting that are about as compelling as a five-year-old ordering you to let him stay up another hour. The gameplay itself is fine (although it's heavily dependent on the ol' cover mechanic) and even shows moments of real promise in the way that the two main characters, Caddoc (burly) and E'lara (boobs), play off of one another's strengths. Each character has a few magical abilities (all of which are upgradable throughout the game), that can be used to effectively set up bad guys for the other character to assault with deadly weapons.
Levels are structured so that they encourage, or even force, you to use this kind of cooperation, but Hunted lacks that "high-five!" factor upon successfully figuring out what to do -- mostly because the challenges are always pretty much the same, regardless of level. A relatively intelligent human is going to be able to extrapolate that he's supposed to use the same ability combinations on a certain foe, even if that foe has a palette swap to his armor coloring.
Bizarrely, while the game's enemies drop all sorts of weapons and shields and armor and stuff, you can only equip one of each at a time, and you can't carry any extra loot. In a way, I suppose, this is good for weaning gamers off of our packrat-like instincts, but it is also incredibly frustrating, because Hunted doesn't do a bang-up job of letting you know how useful a particular new item is gonna be in the upcoming struggle. I'm never sure if I should stick with the bow I have, or pick up this new one that's more effective only against certain types of enemies.
For all of its foibles, though, Hunted still manages to entertain; maybe it's the fact that anything cooperative is fun.or maybe it's that the core mechanics of the game are well executed enough to save it from its lack of polish.

I really wanted this to be a great 2 player game. I keep looking for a two player game that can live up to Baulder's Gate and Champions of Norath. My wife and I were so excited to get this game, and it unfortunately has been a real frustrating experience. It is too dark and hard to see; when you change the gamma setting, it looks washed out. Your inability to hold more than a couple health potions is a pain, and, even though it is great that your partner can resurrect you when you die, you have to be in the perfect spot to do it. And if you don't, well then you automatically die as well. But the worst thing is the saving program. First of all, you cannot continue in two player mode even if your save was in two player. When you reload the chapter, you never know how far back you are going to have to go. Sometimes you end up having to replay the whole section you just played the night before. As far as game play goes, I have enjoyed the combination of archery and melee. Shooting an orc with an ice arrow and seeing it freeze only to follow it up with a regular arrow and see him bust into a thousand little pieces is awesome and never seems to get old! If you are playing the single player mode, this is probably a lot more enjoyable.

I am pleased with having the product, but in some instances the game was glitching during the save points during the quest. Not sure if that is from the product or game development. After a second run through it worked. This was my first product from eBay and sad to say it didn't carry well to other products I've gotten online.

This game is a nice way to get away from all the commercial games that you always play. It has decent graphics, voice over, and a good story.

Great graphics, great quality, fun game. Really enjoy it.
ok, how many ways do I need to say it? I can't summit this because I have not entered 100 characters...so now I am going to write junk to fill in space!!!! lol..someone needs to write a review about the review policy....it was either great or not...not 100 characters about something... :)