Pariah

Digital Extremes · May 3, 2005

Mature

About

Jack Mason is a burned-out doctor with no will to live, that is, until he nearly dies in a transport crash. Now he and his infected patient are stranded deep within the most vicious prison sectors of a wasteland called 'Earth'.

Pariah utilizes the power of a heavily modified Unreal engine with state-of-the-art Havok physics technology that produces stunning settings, lifelike characters and tremendously satisfying in-your-face first-person action. An intense storyline driven single-player campaign compliments a fully loaded multi-player extravaganza including online play through Xbox Live. Plus the Make-And-Play (MAP) Editor allows gamers to create their own environments in the game and play them with their friends in split-screen mode or online.

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PC

Critic 7.2 (5 critics) · Gamer 6.4

Critic reviews

Game Zone
jkdmedia · Jun 01, 2005
6.7
It's a first-person shooter, but they threw in an interesting back-story that sadly is not built upon. I stated it above, and the game makers really dropped the ball, but this game should have had a much more desperate feel to it. It does not and that's partly because of the uneven storytelling that's present here.
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CVG
OXM Staff · May 09, 2005
9.0
But factor in all its innovations, and Pariah is a game that's greater than the sum of its parts. The single-player campaign, though over too quickly, is immensely enjoyable, and the relentless action never becomes monotonous thanks to the brilliant array of weapons. Multiplayer is a riot, and a massively deep mapmaker to get to grips with compensates for the apparent lack of game options and environments.
GameSpot
Jeff Gerstmann · May 06, 2005
6.3
Pariah seems to be built on the concept of "if you liked Halo, then try this one out." But the game simply can't make the act of firing a weapon interesting, and this plagues every mode in it. When you toss in cutscenes that don't move the story along in a useful way, you've got a game that doesn't live up to the standards of the genre. The PC has certainly done better than Pariah, so there's no need to spend time trudging through its uninteresting adventure.
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IGN
Tom McNamara · May 03, 2005
7.8
For better or worse, perhaps they should stick to what they're excellent at, namely fragalicious multiplayer mayhem. Or maybe Pariah was just the victim of running out of budget before it ran out of game, if the story is any indication. It's quite solid in most respects, but it won't tear you away from whatever you're currently hooked on. In fact, Pariah just made me want UT2006 that much more.
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jeuxvideo.com
Superpanda · May 09, 2005
6.0
Ne tournons pas autour du pot, Pariah est décevant. Décevant d'abord au niveau de la réalisation loin d'égaler celle des gros FPS du moment comme Half-Life 2, Doom 3 ou encore Far Cry. Décevant ensuite au niveau de la durée de vie du mode histoire beaucoup trop courte. Décevant enfin lorsqu'on voit la manière dont l'IA a été programmée.
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