WHAT’S in a name? When it comes to computer games you might think not too much. After all some of the best games ever made have rubbish names, consider if you will; Pacman, Sonic the Hedgehog, Resident Evil and Halo. All leave a little bit to be desired but all were classics of their time which gave untold hours of fun to millions of players. So imagine the snidey comments and play-on-words I could have tried to pull off with the distinctly average game which is Legendary. But I decided not to. After all why should I extend myself when the game designers here barely got out of first gear? Legendary is the story of Charles Deckard, a high society thief who is conned into stealing a mysterious box from a New York museum which turns out to be Pandora’s Box. What follows is a formulaic and repetitive adventure in which you, as Deckard, have to fight through the hordes of supernatural creatures you have released into the world. Such a mythological setting should surely have allowed the designers to play with the first-person shooter genre but the truth is the only way you’ll be impressed is if you’re ten and this is your first game on your first games console. Otherwise it’s about as Legendary as a wet Wednesday in Tipton. | 
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