Watchmen: The End Is Nigh

 PlayStation 3
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 30
  3. Negative: 7 out of 30
  1. GameTrailers
    49
    Though largely lacking in ingenuity, Watchmen: The End is Nigh proves that if licensed games can’t be good, they can at least look good. The gameplay has a life expectancy of about 45 minutes, and at a pricey $20 for just a few hours of play, it probably should have been released for five bucks and used as a promotional tool for the flick.
  2. Variety
    45
    A distressingly shallow videogame in which there's nothing for players to do but beat the living crap out of everyone they see.
  3. Wired
    40
    The game requires very little in the way of strategy or timing -- just mashing on the attack buttons is more than enough to get you through half the game. At that point, more and more enemies start piling on you, and getting cheap-shotted in the back is an excellent way to die (and be booted out to a long loading screen while you wait for the exact same level you were just in to be reloaded).
  5. Games Master UK
    40
    Gamers have outgrown games so utterly basic and brainless. [May 2009, p.80]
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  6. PSM3 Magazine UK
    34
    Clumsy and uninspired. Avoid this like a mugging. [May 2009, p.64]
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  7. Gaming Age
    25
    Disappointing lately, city filled with grime and filth. Soul gone. Inspiration gone.
  8. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    20
    In a game that's only two hours long, being this gnawingly repetitive is actually quite an achievement. [May 2009, p.103]
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Awards & Rankings

58
#58 Most Shared PS3 Game of 2009

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User Score
6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 5 out of 16
  1. rcoberle54
    Nov 1, 2020
    2
    What an absolute travesty of a game. The only redeeming factors is that they actually got Jackie Earle Haley and Patrick Wilson to voice theirWhat an absolute travesty of a game. The only redeeming factors is that they actually got Jackie Earle Haley and Patrick Wilson to voice their characters, the dialogue lines are spot on for the characters, and the motion comic cut scenes are colorful and interesting. Other than that is game is absolute hot garbage. One of the worst, rushed, unfished messes I've ever played. It's so repetitive and boring. The level design is crap and levels hardly look different from one another. The graphics are garbage and it's ugly looking as it's all brown and green. Actually Rorschach is pretty well animated but Nite Owl isn't.

    This is a linear game where you mash square to punch bad guys, move forward, pull a lever, rinse and repeat. That is it. There are no puzzles, or stealth, or any variation on that. It even came out before the Arkham games so it couldn't quite copy their combat system. This is clearly a product of rushing production to meet the release date of the movie and they couldn't even get that right as the second half of the game was released half a year later after the first part came out. I'm glad to have added this to my collection as I love collecting both superhero and movie games but wow this sucks. If you've played this game for 5 minutes you've played the whole thing. I couldn't finish this. This might have snuck into my top 5 of worst games ever.    … Full Review »
  2. DeucePlanter
    Mar 20, 2009
    3
    Long loading times, a high price, very little to do with watchmen, crap story, short and more redundant/simple than any other game I haveLong loading times, a high price, very little to do with watchmen, crap story, short and more redundant/simple than any other game I have played in the past few years.
    The one decent thing is the graphics but they're incredibly smoke and mirrors(relying on UE3 shine). This game is a waste of time and money. It really shouldn't even appeal to the typical watchmen fan...    … Full Review »
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