Infernal is a third person shooter placing you in the role of fallen angel Ryan Lennox, recruited by the forces of Hell to fight against the forces of Heaven and... ohh, who cares... you run around shooting stuff, solving a few puzzles along the way.
The opening level doesn't exactly ease you into the game. After a cut scene soldiers come charging through the building with the intent of turning you into a bullet ridden mess. It sets you up ready for a blast everything in sight, action packed game. Aanother cut scene follows where some evil looking guy in a suit persuades you to join his team in the fight. He also gives you some special skills which is nice of him. So, armed with these abilities off we go ready to charge in and wipe out the hoards of enemies.
The hoardes, however, have been replaced by a quiet scene with very few people around. They do appear eventually but only a few at a time and you now get to use your new skills. Ryan can build up a fire bolt thing in his arm and throw it at the bad guys, which is pretty cool looking and dispatches the unfortunate souls quite effectively. These 'souls' can then be sucked out of the dead body to replenish Ryans health. It's much more imaginative than finding first aid kits conveniently scattered around.
Unfortunately things seem slightly less impressive when you realise that the super powerful hero you are controlling is incapable of bashing his way through flimsy looking obstacles like glass doors. Instead you are forced to find buttons to push to open the way through the fairly linear pathways. This isn't a really bad thing, turning the game into something more than just blasting and running, but it doesn't feel as though the developers have put much effort into making the game feel a bit more believable.
Graphically the characters look impressive. However, the surroundings can get a bit dull and the accompanying sound doesn't help at all with the heavy metal getting annoying after a while and the voice acting being quite poor.
It is one of those games that is still enjoyable, but is quickly forgotten once you've stopped playing it.
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