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FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER·ACTION·REL 2000.07

Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child’00

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Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child is a first-person shooter released in 2000, based on Todd McFarlane's KISS comic book series, in which the player battles through five realms to rescue the members of KISS from the Void. The game was developed using Monolith's LithTech 3D engine and was also ported to the Dreamcast.

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Civvie 11

THE NIGHTMARE CHILD
MEH
44:01 mixed

this game starts off really fun and is eventually crippled by repetition and lame level design... there's plenty to love but in copying Doom they've made a caricature that forgets enemy placement and relies on shock and awe