Watchmen: The End Is Nigh
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is an episodic video game series that serves as a prequel to the film adaptation of the DC Comics limited series Watchmen. The game allows players to take on the roles of either…
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Deadline Games, released 4 March 2009 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 3 hrs to finish.
What Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Deadline Games and released in 2009. It was published by WB Games. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Kapow.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is an episodic video game series that serves as a prequel to the film adaptation of the DC Comics limited series Watchmen. The game allows players to take on the roles of either Rorschach or Nite Owl in single-player or cooperative multiplayer.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the DC Comics series
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh is the 55th of 185 entries we hold in the DC Comics series. The next entry was Batman: Arkham Asylum - Dem Bones Challenge Map in 2009. Its critic score of 48 is 21 points below the series average of 69. The highest-rated entry is Batman: Arkham Knight at 92.
How it was received
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh holds a critic score of 48 out of 100. That places it above 9% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 19 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8Ghz 64bit (dual core), 1 GB RAM and Geforce® 6 Series or greater, ATI Radeon™ x800 series or greater, shader 3.0 and 256MB video memory required. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh launched on 4 March 2009, within three weeks of Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.
Official trailer
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