While I'm not a huge fan of this genre (Hack-n-slash), Bayonetta does look 'entertaining' in an odd sort of way. Personally I can't see all the fuss about it, and the skin-tick clad Bayonetta, but it is receiving rave reviews. Perhaps it's just her rather open way of combat, or weapons, or the fact she's just sexy, in a game-character sort of way of course.

But either way, a decent review, showing the positive and the negative sides to the game, plus a few vids and screen shots of course.

Bayonetta seems to be quite the rage at the moment, and it needs to be in good form as well in order to take on the likes of THQ’s Darksiders, which was also released on the same day. Both are action games, both feature gigantic enemies, both have a battle between Heaven & Hell but both seem to have faults in different areas.

Bayonetta seems to be the hardcore ‘action’ game when compared to Darksiders, in that it features more over-the-top action variety across the board. Brought to life by Hideki Kamiya (from the original Devil May Cry game) of Platinum Games, Bayonetta sets to not revolutionise the genre, but to expand it and add flavour

As a hot intellectual-looking female protagonist, Bayonetta carries out a plethora of some of the craziest moves I’ve seen in any game to feature fighting/action, and an ability where Bayonetta’s hair can rip apart the bigger enemies in a beautiful climatic scene makes this game larger than life (or virtual life as the case may be).

It pulls out all the big moves and spares nothing on the beautiful fluid action experience in doing so.

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