Hellboy: The Science of Evil

Hellboy: The Science of Evil is an adventure game developed by Big Ant Studios and released in 2008. It was published by Konami. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360. It runs on Merkury Engine.

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Hellboy: The Science of Evil is the third of 6 entries we hold in the Hellboy series. It arrived 5 years after Hellboy: Asylum Seeker. The next entry was Injustice 2: Hellboy in 2017.

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Hellboy: The Science of Evil holds a critic score of 43 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 22 points below the year average.

The main story runs about 6 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 8 hrs, roughly 1.3 times the length of the critical path.

Hellboy: The Science of Evil launched on 24 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008) and Battlefield: Bad Company. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company.