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Hellboy: The Science of Evil (Sony PSP)

Hellboy provides players with fresh adventures featuring the acclaimed comic book's unmistakable fusion of action, atmosphere and humor. On the trail of a crazed witch, Hellboy uncovers a Nazi plot for world domination and must rush to defeat the crazed Hermann Von Klempt before he can exert his evil will upon a hapless world. As a visceral brawler, the game lets players unleash Hellboy's superhuman abilities as they smash their way through hordes of enemies with contextual use of the environment for added destructive power and strategy. An original storyline set in the Hellboy universe, filled with classic characters from the comic book. Explosive battle system with contextual grappling commands lets players experience Hellboy's supernatural might as he unleashes the Right Hand of Doom on his enemies. Use strategy to take down hordes of enemies - toss a straggler into the crowd or manipulate the environment to create more manageable groups of enemies. Play as series favorites Abe Sapein and Liz Sherman in cooperative multiplayer modes. [Konami]

Konami
Action, Beat-'Em-Up
Players: 4
T (Teen)
Developer: Konami
Released June 24, 2008

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

42 / 100

Critic Reviews

60	Games Radar It could have been a contender, but The Science of Evil is merely above average, and leaves a sour reminder that the cynicism we harbor toward licensed games isn’t exclusive to the people playing them. It’s a real shame.
60	AtomicGamer A hastily made, not much fun, not worth the money movie add-on. You're better off buying a box of Hellboy Cornflakes.
54	Game Chronicles I was a little disappointed with the length of the game. It was about an hour too short.
52	Cheat Code Central Fans of Hellboy likely won't find this game to be a complete disappointment, although it honestly could have been much better. With its repetitive and sluggish gameplay, fairly short completion time, bad camera, lackluster cinematics, and complete lack of voice work, I would definitely caution eager fans to play the game before purchasing it.
48	Play UK As dull as the source material. [Issue#170, p.85]
47	Console Gameworld The game by itself is average at best.
46	Gamers' Temple There's no real reason to recommend Hellboy: Science of Evil. Hellboy fans will be disappointed, action gamers will be frustrated, and no one we'll be happy that they bought this game.
45	Extreme Gamer I can not recommend Science of Evil on the PSP, if you want a good Hellboy experience pick up a comic, or check out the film.
41	GameFocus Bad jumping mechanics.
40	Video Game Talk The game feels unfinished and sloppy from start to finish with a terrible story to back it up and greatly varied presentational merits.
40	LEVEL (Czech Republic) A futile attempt to bring to life Hellboy comics. Inexperienced players could be amused for a while but except for the nice graphics and partly appealing duels this game offers dull and way too linear play. [Sept 2008]
30	IGN There's simply zero reason to even take a passing look at The Science of Evil.
20	Pocket Gamer UK While we certainly weren't expecting The Science of Evil to reinvent the wheel, nothing could have prepared us for this hopeless, shambling mockery of a game. Avoid as if your very soul depends on it.
0	GameShark Thankfully, the game is nice and short. I know that when I put thirty bucks down for a game, four hours is right on the money as I have things to do, man. I'm like, important. Unfortunately that's still about three hours and fifty minutes longer than you'd want to play this game, but at least when you're done you can watch the interviews and look at the concept art, and maybe try and figure out how the concept art could look so good, but the game could be so bad.

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