Daikatana (PC) Reviews

Daikatana is simply one of the worst games ever made. It is all the more disappointing, though, because it was the brainchild of Doom co-creator John Romero, who helped ride the hype train all the way to the bank, promoting the game as a "game changer" that was going to revolutionise the industry. Given his cred in the industry, most ...  Read the complete review

When Daikatana was finally released years behind schedule back in 2000, the game was met with universal disdain, and with good reason. The game was the brainchild of John Romero, head of development company Ion Storm and responsible in part for the creation of some fo the most important first person shooters of all time, namely Wolfenstein 3D ...  Read the complete review

Year of release: 2000 Developers: John Romero's team at Ion Storm Publisher:Eidos Why am I reviewing this stinker? I normally only review games (usually the more obscure ones) that I really enjoy and want to share with others to encourage them to hunt down and try. But I'm doing this particular review as a public service, in ...  Read the complete review

If you've read the other reviews of this game you'll already know everybody hates it. A LOT! For a game that was delayed beyond belief for many years, had many members of its design team sacked, had level design allocated to amateurs, had the worst save method known to man and had the worst in game character AI for your supposedly ...  Read the complete review

The story ******** Daikatana is based in the future, 2455. An evil Dictator “Kage Mishima” has changed events in the past, and it’s your job to go back in time and change the terrible work of Kage Mishima You will travel through 4 different time periods to try to bring stop this evil dictator. You play as Hiro Miyamoto A Japanese ...  Read the complete review

After just recently purchasing "Enter The Matrix" and actually finishing it within two days of limited play with one of the two selectable characters, I decided to see the evolution of game design. I use this term lightly as I spotted John Romero's "tour de force" "Daikatana" sitting on a shelf in my house filled ...  Read the complete review

Over the last few months of 1997, there was a disturbing amount of hype and information regarding a game called Daikatana. It was the centre of attention for a few months because it was being developed by John Romero, the main person behind the legandary DOOM series. But as time went on, more and more information began to come under the heading ...  Read the complete review

I'd been waiting like everyone else - not holding my breath... then one day Daikatana is released with little fanfare. I didn't see any parades or billboard advertising - it just appeared on the shelf at Best Buy one day - kinda slipped in there next to the latest Tomb Raider. I just went ahead and bought it... I just bought it - ...  Read the complete review

Okay, so I decided to buy Daikatana because I was pretty sure that it would never get an unbiased review anywhere, what with the hype. If you're reading this review, I'm pretty sure you know what I mean. So, I got the thing home, installed it, and sat down to play. And... Well, the first level is a mess. It's got lots of ...  Read the complete review

Daikatana is a first person shooter with about as much depth as a frying pan, the graphics aren't up to much, the sidekicks (Mikiko and Superfly) are just plain stupid and the speech is naff. But if you can get past that and progress past the first few levels, a surprisingly good game emerges. The four episodes give a varied challenge and ...  Read the complete review

Having been one of the most promising, hyped up, games ever and been in the development box for 5 years this game was set to blow the mind of PC game players. After the rather attractive installation I was happy to start the game. The in game menu is very well done with 3d images and quality graphics. I started the game, nice graphics, nasty ...  Read the complete review

Was the wait really worth it - In short no, what you get here is a dated FPS. Ok so we have a game using the Quake 2 engine, so we get reasonable graphics, but there is definitely something lacking, the gameplay, it just doesn't seem real. For a game that was promised to us around the time Half-Life was announced, we were made to wait far too ...  Read the complete review

This was the game that was supposed to break the first person shooter mould, great we said. The developers said it would have all the best features from all of our favourite games, great we said. Did we question the ever falling back release date, no a good game does take time. But it kept slipping and I think most of us gave up waiting. ...  Read the complete review

Daikatana, what a disappointment. It had been put back for what seems like ages as it was meant to be released last year. However I thought this would probably mean extra time had been spent making it a classic, especially with such a talented group of designers working on it, I was wrong. Put simply it is a poor game. The graphics ...  Read the complete review

After an assortment of rumors and scandals, a series of setbacks, and years of delay, Daikatana has finally been released to an audience of gamers, anxious to see if it was worth the wait. The question everyone is ...  Read the complete review

You'd think with John Romero behind this title and the amount of time that went into this, it would be a fine game. You'd be wrong! The story of Daikatana is a sad one. A game which took year upon year to develop, promising to bring revolutionary changes to gaming as we know it. Now it turned out to be a ridiculous piece of work that ...  Read the complete review

Oh god all this time wating for such a piece of ***** I glad a friend actually bought it so I played it round his house. while I bought Soldier of fortune.Go to my mate house Installation was fine got all the gfx and sound setup and I was expecting something special fired it up and boy were we disapointed. My little finger had more brains than the ...  Read the complete review

Oh Mr Romero, I expected SO much more. When I first saw screenshots of this game (2-3 Years ago I was pretty impressed. Nice graphics, Good ideas etc. But now it's arrived, and I can say it is THE poorest First-Person-Shooter I have played for a long time. The opening level doesn't do the game any favours as it is set in a swampy area ...  Read the complete review

A classic example of too little, too late. You have to wonder at the developers mentality to continue the delevopment of this title when it was obvious a long time ago that it was throwing good money after bad. One look at the early demo last year was convincining enough for Daikatana to be written off by the majority of the 3d gamimg community. ...  Read the complete review

After years in production and a huge amount of hype,it is finally here. Unfortunately it seems they have been doing very little with their time, producing a game which would have been distinctly average 3 years ago. It is based on the Quake II graphics engine, and compared to the likes of Quake III and Unreal, it looks positively ancient, with ...  Read the complete review