The Crow: City of Angels
The Crow: City of Angels is a 3D fighting game in which the player wanders from screen to screen, fighting everybody they come across with a wide variety of kicks and punches that vary based on your proximity…
The Crow: City of Angels is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Gray Matter, released 1 February 1997 on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The Crow: City of Angels is
The Crow: City of Angels is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Gray Matter and released in 1997. It was published by Acclaim Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Crow: City of Angels is a 3D fighting game in which the player wanders from screen to screen, fighting everybody they come across with a wide variety of kicks and punches that vary based on your proximity to your foe. There is also a large range of weapons including pistols, shotguns, knives, pool cues, pipes and steel drums.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Crow series
The Crow: City of Angels is the first of 2 entries we hold in the The Crow series. The next entry was The Crow in 2004.
How it was received
The Crow: City of Angels holds a critic score of 10 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 55 points below the year average.
What it launched against
The Crow: City of Angels launched on 1 February 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital and Money Puzzle Exchanger. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII (1997), Theme Hospital, Money Puzzle Exchanger.
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