The Haunted Hell’s Reach Single Player
The single player can get pretty boring. I’ve found that you can find a very defensible position (see image below), a balcony with just one entrance, a dead end corridor, etc, and simply stand there and fire away at the demons who will spawn nearby or eventually find you. It basically means that those massive levels they’ve created aren’t at all necessary. Since the goal is to survive four encounters to pass a level in Inferno you can pretty much get away with finding a spot and playing fish in a barrel for all four. The AI is quite good at times but every so often you will find a demon who is just standing there while you pick off hordes of its pals. I think it’s due to a small aggro area and limited environmental awareness. So you can actually shoot the demons from afar without them reacting to you. It also seems like some demons aren’t aware of what’s happening around them at all.
The game does offer some more interesting aspects though. For example, each level has six weapons scattered about it like a flamethrower, grenade launcher that come in handy form time to time and help add to your three main weapon types: pistol, rifle, shotgun. Those basic wepons are updated over time. As you gain XP the enemies will drop upgrades for the weapons. On top of that there are events that are triggered every so often like lightning storms and flaming meteor showers which have a direct impact on you, if you get hit that is.
The thing about the single player gameplay is that there’s no cohesion factor, no story, and no level progression. Everything you gain in one level is stripped from you and when you go to a new level you are stripped of anything aside from the standard weapons you always have. But again, it’s a budget title.
Overall, The Haunted: Hell’s Reach is a pretty decent third-person shooter and as the first game from KTX it shows they’ve got some great ideas and can execute on them. Hopefully, they’ll continue to expand their games and include some further balance between single and multiplayer gameplay as well as work in some story and standard level progression which we have come to expect from modern first and third-person shooters. I look forward to further games from the developer as I think they will grow in experience and mature their games over time which will mean really great games from them.
The game is rated M for Mature due to the graphic nature of the killing in the game. Demons explode with blood and gore and it’s probably best to be kept out of the hands of most children like the ESRB rating says.
