Don’t be fooled by the guns and the explosion – it’s been made clear to us over the course of this review that The Club isn’t actually a third person shooter at all. Really, it’s a very cleverly disguised beat-em-up; Tekken with all the regular moves left out and just the special combos remaining.

The whole game feels like Soul Calibur in the twenty-first century and the proof is in the short character biographies, the combo-centric gameplay and the booming voice that yells “Finn! Fight!” at the start of every round.

Unfortunately, like most beat-em-ups, The Club is also a love-it-or-hate-it affair and it doesn’t surprise me to hear that the developers refer to it as ‘The Marmite Game’. The experience players have with The Club depends more on the gamers themselves than the game and, just as some people love Virtua Fighter but hate Dead or Alive, so too will players of The Club become divided.



Link: Bit Tech