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The excitement quickly fades, leaving you with a game with unresponsive controls and lackluster action.

By Tyler Winegarner @THE_REAL_TYLERW on

Reign of Fire for the PlayStation 2 is based on the 2002 film of the same name starring Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale. The movie's plot pitted humankind against fire-breathing dragons that had become the dominant species on Earth. The movie was largely unremarkable, and its sometimes striking visuals were offset by the flat execution of its plot. This game is therefore a suitable rendition of its source material, as it sports some good graphics but little else. Reign of Fire isn't terrible, but ultimately, a number of glaring flaws keep it from being an enjoyable gaming experience.

Metacritic Game Reviews, Reign of Fire for Game Boy Advance, Based on the movie, Reign of Fire lets you play as either a human or a dragon in an epic battle. As a human, you'll take the role of a re.

At its core, Reign of Fire is a vehicular shooter. You drive around in a variety of different vehicles, each of which is armed with a number of different weapons and able to equip other weapons strewn about the level. The game uses a control scheme in which you control the vehicle's aiming cursor with the left analog stick, and the vehicle drives whatever direction the cursor is pointed. While this initially seems to be an effective control scheme, given the pace and style of the game's action, it quickly becomes unwieldy. You might find yourself wishing for some of the more established control schemes seen in other car combat games, as this scheme tends to be mushy and unresponsive, especially in the heat of battle. There is an alternative control scheme that maps the movement of the vehicle to the left stick and control of the aiming cursor to the right, but this scheme, used primarily in first-person shooters, makes even less sense in this context.

You will operate a number of vehicles, starting with a military jeep and then moving on to fire trucks, dune buggies, pickup trucks, and tanks. The first few missions of the game are fairly lengthy and chaotic. Your briefings just call for following the mid-mission orders of your superior, which basically boil down things like, 'Go to this point and kill stuff,' and 'Now go here and kill more stuff.' Later in the game, your objectives will be laid out at the beginning of each mission, giving them a more cut-and-dried feel. The dragons are the only enemies you'll face, and while there is a bit of variety to them--there are some that crawl, others that fly and breathe fire, and still others that charge at you and bite you--the variety wears thin quickly.

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The game's visuals do a fine job of giving you the sense that you're in an all-out war, with countless dragons raining fire down upon you and your comrades and batteries of guns aimed skyward, trying to bring the beasts down. Even still, the action lacks a real sense of urgency. The progression of the missions doesn't seem to be directly affected by your actions. An ally might report that he needs help or is sustaining damage, but he doesn't ever actually die if you just wait it out. Unless you're set on fire, your vehicle can withstand numerous dragon attacks, so you'll often just feel like you're waiting for the missions to end and killing dragons to kill time. The friendly AI has a tendency to be pretty bad, too. In missions in which one of the victory conditions is to protect certain characters, they do very little to keep themselves out of harm's way, and if they're set on fire, they'll do nothing to extinguish themselves.

Toward the end of the human campaign, the game splits in two--you can opt to finish the missions allied with the humans, or you can choose to play as a dragon. While this initially sounds like a good twist that might breathe some replay value into the game, the control for the dragon is so stiff and awkward that it robs the dragon campaign of whatever fun it might have offered. You don't end up feeling like the extremely intelligent and agile terror of the sky that the dragons are made out to be, but rather a flying, fire-breathing brick. The most complex gameplay component of the dragon's control is its ability to swoop down and pick up certain vehicles in its talons and then drop them like bombs. In practice, however, performing the move while swooping down toward a vehicle does nothing most of the time. Roughly one in five attempts will yield an alternate camera angle showing the dragon flying in but coming up empty-handed, and the odds that you'll actually pick up the vehicle are even longer. Considering the fact that you'll need to execute this maneuver to pass certain missions, the awkwardness and difficulty involved in doing so gets tiresome and frustrating quickly.

To its credit, Reign of Fire looks pretty good for a PlayStation 2 game. The whole world has a great postapocalyptic feel to it, and the detailed levels are filled with scorched trees, burned-out cars, and deteriorating buildings. The vehicles kick up dust and ash when you accelerate quickly or make sharp turns, and the shadows of the dragons as they pass overhead adds an ominous feeling to the proceedings. The game's color palette borrows heavily from the one used in the film, resulting in a dark, drab, and washed-out look throughout. It bears mentioning that, as a multiplatform title, the game's graphics seem to have originally been tuned to the Xbox's superior graphics-rendering capability and then toned down for the PlayStation 2 version. Unfortunately, they weren't toned down enough, as the game occasionally suffers from some pretty severe slowdown. Additionally, the game uses motion-blur and camera-shaking effects whenever you sustain severe damage, fire a powerful weapon, or use the dragon's speed rush maneuver. The effect is so overused that it quickly becomes tiresome and gratuitous.

The game's audio is mediocre. Each vehicle has a unique sound to it, and while the various firearms sound pretty good, there isn't much variety in the weapon sound effects, so you'll be pretty tired of them by the end. When in a convoy, the rumbling sounds of vehicles are reminiscent of the tanks from Saving Private Ryan, which is a decent touch. The voice acting is delivered with a lack of conviction, however. Reign of Fire's orchestral score adds a feeling of purpose to the game, but most of the tracks are set on short loops and get rather grating by the end of each mission.

In the end, Reign of Fire is a fairly thin gaming experience. There is some occasional fun to be had, as some of the action sequences are exciting to take part in, and watching a dead dragon fall from the sky is an exciting sight. Unfortunately, this excitement quickly fades, leaving you with a game with unresponsive controls and lackluster action.

We spoke to the film’s director about how Harry Potter and Game of Thrones took advantage of Reign’s technical innovations.

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There were remarkably few live-action dragon movies before Reign of Fire. Maybe the difficulty of pulling off dragon effects is to blame for that––1981's Dragonslayer has a definite campy charm, and it looks great for its time, but that's not saying much. I'm a sucker for 1996's Dragonheart, but its cartoony dragon and optimistic tale of bravery keep it rooted pretty firmly in kids' film territory.

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The Dungeons and Dragons movie, released two years earlier––you know, the one you probably didn't see and had until now forgotten about entirely––certainly didn't offer much hope for dragons as any kind of viable subject matter.

Obviously, there are now a few successful dragon-related projects out there. The immensely popular Game of Thrones took its time, priming us for a full season before actually introducing its three now-ubiquitous dragons. And Peter Jackson didn't tackle The Hobbit's Smaug until winning over international audiences with the Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy.

But before all of that, in 2002, Reign of Fire came along, starring a pre-Batman Christian Bale and a pre-McConassaince Matthew McConaughey. In it, humanity is almost extinct after an ancient race of dragons is unearthed and lays waste to England and soon the entire world. A small group of survivors, on its last legs when its meagre crops are torched, rises up against the dragons when a major weakness is discovered––dragons are overwhelmingly female. Kill the lone male fertilizing eggs and the dragons will fall.

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VICE spoke to Reign of Fire director Rob Bowman, who never had any illusions about his uphill battle. 'I walked into that movie thinking, you're going to make a dragon movie; you're going to get your ass kicked,' he said. And he did. The movie definitely had its champions, including critic Richard Roeper, who applauded its entertaining camp qualities. But it received overall negative reviews––and inspired a painful amount of fire puns that are as scorchingly bad as they are obvious.

Rewatching Reign of Fire a full 15 years after its release, I was blown away by how great these dragons still look, not least because Bowman and his team were pretty much starting from scratch. With that kind of blank slate, it would have been easy to go all out, but Bowman knew he was already on thin ice. 'There had to be some relatability to the various predators that exist. The skin had to be the same skin as you would find on a king cobra, with a little texturing, let's say from an alligator,' he said.

In the end, the dragons drew on everything from komodo dragons to elephants and lions, with hints of sharks and the Lamborghini Countach to keep things sleek and sexy.

That kind of reality-infused fantasy has trickled down into other films. For one, Bowman insisted on ditching traditional fire breathing (you don't want the audience wondering whether the dragon's mouth is being burnt up with every flame) and again looked to the animal kingdom for inspiration. The king cobra, once again, was a great starting point. It doesn't spray fire, but it can spit its venom. Even more useful was the bombardier beetle, which shoots two chemicals from its abdomen that, once mixed, create a hot, burning spray. Bowman used these real-world examples to inspire his own dragons. They don't breathe fire exactly, but rather spit chemicals from two different sacks in their mouths that, when combined, ignite. 'That's anatomy. That's already been designed, so we're going to draw from there,' he said.

It's hard to overstate the influence of that one detail. Bowman told me that he's often heard from members of his old team, letting him know they've spotted another rip-off of his dragons, not that he minds. 'It's OK,' he said, 'it's a compliment.' I first consciously noticed that particular fire-breathing detail in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but having come out three years after Reign, the concept was clearly borrowed. The Harry PotterWiki entry on Hungarian Horntails (the dragon in question) actually credits the innovation to Reign of Fire, noting that the chemical liquid method was later borrowed by Game of Thrones and Gods of Egypt too.

Beyond paving the way for us to take dragons seriously, Reign of Fire has aged quite well. Its star power is impressively forward-thinking, giving us the likes of then lesser-known Bale and McConaughey, and even a fresh-faced Gerard Butler. McConaughey was admittedly already a star, though he was still years away from 'time is a flat circle' and Bale, growing out of his child-actor past, had yet to slim down for The Machinist or bulk up for Batman Begins. It was a lucky bit of timing. 'How many years ago could you say you can afford to put Christian, Gerry, and Matthew in the same movie?' Bowman asked.

The film also took a sober look at a world dominated by dragons, opting for a dystopian, survivalist tone. It's much more Mad Max than Middle Earth. Reign of Fire went into production before the release of the first Lord of the Rings film, so the contrast is largely coincidental, but it certainly helps Reign avoid feeling like a cash-grabby knock-off. And it's a fresh take that helps you sink into the narrative as a viewer. 'I felt that if I could get the audience to just accept one thing, which is the dragons, then I would provide an ultra-realism around it,' said Bowman.

Wisely, Bowman used dragons as a tool to tell a human story. 'What I wanted to do was put regular people up against an overwhelmingly superior opponent,' he said. 'It's nothing more than a metaphor for something really difficult to deal with.'

Bowman described living through the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and seeing his parents handle the situation calmly, keeping their kids together and safe. Then seeing the panic outside his home on the news. 'When you have the earth shaking, when mother nature reaches up with her ugly, powerful hand and does something like that, people get scared beyond their sensibilities, and they're very primal in that moment,' Bowman said. 'People are distilled and reduced to who they are essentially when you throw them in crisis. Putting people in crisis and seeing how they make decisions, I'm fascinated with it.'

That human element is what shines through most clearly, with McConaughey and Bale's characters standing in for the fight and flight responses respectively. Bale's Quinn takes on a patriarchal role, leading a group of survivors who keep to themselves outside of the dragon-controlled urban centres of England, while McConaughey's brash (and ripped) American Van Zan takes a military approach, bringing the fight to the dragons. It makes for a compelling, low-key conflict. 'How do you find conflict between Quinn and Van Zan when they both ultimately want the same thing?' The solution is to allow McConaughey to do what he does best––be just a little unhinged. Van Zan is relatable to a point, but he also has a Colonel Kurtz-infused intensity and sense of focus.

I can't help but think Bowman's approach would be better received today. With the latest Planet of the Apes flick getting almost unanimous praise, and Game of Thrones continuing to captivate the world, gritty realist takes on fanciful sci-fi and fantasy tropes seems to be in right now.

Reign of Fire may not be a masterpiece, but it's a great bit of entertainment. If you can put up with the silly, outrageous, or just plain offensive parts of Game of Thrones Kingdom hearts 2 pc game. , you can probably spare 100 minutes for this surprisingly influential sci-fi take on mythical fire breathers.

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