.co.uk Review

A beautiful freneticism lies at the heart of Capcom's latest action-packed PS2 romp, Chaos Legion. While some games are happy to gradually ease you into the action, that's resolutely not so here, with wave upon wave of attackers hitting you quickly--albeit not very hard.

But that soon changes. As you hack your way through the game, up ramps the difficulty level, and so do the factors of Chaos Legion that move it away from being the all-out action fest it initially appears. As you battle onwards and upwards you build up your legions, which ultimately you'll be able to call on to help you. You can deploy these legions in different ways, assuming you've built up enough energy to do so, and they add a pleasing extra dimension to an already enjoyable game. A tactical element is factored in by you having to choose which legions--and there are seven types in the game--to take into the next level, although your choice rarely makes a mesmeric difference.

Viewed from the third-person, the action in the game is pretty relentless, and that makes it ideal to switch on and jump straight in to. It's an arcadey hack-and-slash at heart, whose worst crime is to occasionally border on repetitive, but best asset is the sheer entertainment factor that lies at the heart of it all. --Simon Brew

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"Why hasn't anyone thought of doing this before? They did? Well, it certainly wasn't this much fun. 8/10." -- Computer and Video Games Magazine