Watchmen: The End is Nigh- AKA watching Watchmen brutally kick ass!

He's out there praying to his dark overlord of the 9th circle of Hell..... "Klandathu.....please punish those responsible for shitting all over my finest hour as a comic book writer.......it's bad enough that the guy making the Watchmen movie was responsible for 300 men running around in sweaty leather man- diapers, but they are also bastardizing the children of my universe with a putrid video game tie in as well. Oh dark one.....please rip their balls off and shove them so far up their asses that next time they shit....they shit on their balls." If I could imagine what Alan Moore is thinking as his arguably unfilmable Watchmen is finally hitting the silver screen and being marketed like gangbusters........it would be something like that. I know I wasn't looking forward to any type of game in the Watchmen universe. Most of the time, the video game adaptations of popular films are not even worthy to line the bottom of your cat's crap-box. But, the Watchmen: The End is Nigh has proven my fears wrong and is a worthy twenty dollar beat-em-up for your downloading pleasure!

I'll get you Zack Snyder!!!!

You choose to play as either Rorshach or the second Nite Owl as they clean up the streets years before the events of the graphic novel. Animated comic panels and a story written by Len Wein (of Swamp Thing and Watchmen fame) fill you in on the plot details before thrusting you headlong into the fight, and that's really what this game is all about. It reminds me of Rockstar's "The Warriors" from a few years back. It's all about pulling off stylish brutal combos and watching the blood and teeth fly from your opponents. All you do in this game is go from room to room and kick the buh-Jesus out of all kinds of generic bad guys and I can hear the critics now complaining about repetition. But riddle me this FPS fans......what the hell do you do in a shooter? Well......how about YOU SHOOT....over and over and over again till game's end. So it should be no surprise that in a brawler......you brawl....over and over again. Plus, said brawling in this one is so much fun that I can't wait to play through the game again as the second character with different nut-busting fighting techniques. So bottom line, it looks good, plays good, and is fairly cheap in my opinion for what you get. At least check out the demo.....you may be surprised. If not then feel free to join Alan Moore and his Zack Snyder hating cult of doom.