It is an awful mess of a game, often put on the same pedestal as Superman 64.Īnd yet I bought it on a whim a number of months ago, still factory-sealed. The story is a mess of poor narration, hidden in cutscenes that usually only vaguely relate to the gameplay sections surrounding them even then, the storytelling is hard to follow past the most basic conceit. The graphics are pretty bad, even for the Xbox, and Im pretty sure the menu font is some form of Comic Sans. Sometimes, sound effects from previous levels will bleed into the cutscene at the start of the next level.
The music is bland and uninspired and the sound design is worse than that, featuring some truly awful false gun sounds and at least one sound effect that seems to be ripped straight from AOL Instant Messenger.
The controls are loose and floaty, and many of the additional movement mechanics are disgustingly inconsistent and buggy. The camera is fast and loose, and often forces an awful perspective for gameplay. The Xbox version of the game did not include a reticule for the guns, and tried to make up for it with an auto-aim feature, which is inconsistent at best. The game is absolutely riddled with bugs and design problems. On release, it was critically panned, and received an average Metacritic rating of 22. The release of the game killed any hope of success for this multimedia project. A short comic was released as a promotional product, and a cartoon was supposedly in development during the same time. Developed by the then-new (and now-defunct) Idol FX, the game was supposed to spark a franchise based around the eponymous Drake, an assassin for the Clan of the 99 Dragons. Drake of the 99 Dragons is a 2003 third-person shooter game released on the Xbox and PC.
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