NeverDead

 Xbox 360
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5.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 71 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 71
  2. Mixed: 25 out of 71
  3. Negative: 24 out of 71
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  1. Nilrem_Dilos
    Nov 24, 2012
    4
    The graphics looks ok along with art style, busty sidekick also helping to love the game but it's all in vein.
    Shooting is bad with **** targeting and swordplay is disorienting. The game is trying to be humoristic with character lines, but it comes out so lame. Dismembering is kinda boring and annoying.
  2. Xborn74
    Mar 13, 2012
    4
    This is a bad, bad game... Konami slipped on this title. It's a 3rd person action game, where the protagonist (Bryce) it's a demon hunter, who is cursed by the Demon's King with immortality: he can lose any body part and gather them again. The action resumes in modern days when you and your partner, a girl (who is mortal) hunts demons: the main gameplay is a mixture of beat em up, andThis is a bad, bad game... Konami slipped on this title. It's a 3rd person action game, where the protagonist (Bryce) it's a demon hunter, who is cursed by the Demon's King with immortality: he can lose any body part and gather them again. The action resumes in modern days when you and your partner, a girl (who is mortal) hunts demons: the main gameplay is a mixture of beat em up, and puzzles, with the occasional boss fight. Ok, nice, but we have some (many?) problems: the graphics are bad, and outdated, the acting is cheesy, but the worst thing, is the gameplay. You lose body parts every time you are hit by an enemy (and this happen almost all the time in combats), and to recompose yourself (and be able to attack again), you must roll up to these body parts. The main problem is that your assistant is attacked at the same time (and you must revive her, quickly), and that every time you catch a body part, if a enemy attacks you, you lose it again... add to this some bugs and glitches to the gameplay, and we have one of the worst games of the year, with a utterly frustrating and boring gameplay. My score: 4,1 .… Expand
  3. 360gamer8302
    Feb 5, 2012
    4
    I think I have to differ with my fellow user reviewers. NeverDead follows the same cycle of developers creating a great idea, but in the end the opportunities for a great game are squandered thanks to poor dialouge from the characters, poor design decisions, and poor characters in general. In my opinion it's just another good idea gone bad.
  4. NotPaid2behere
    Feb 8, 2012
    0
    Somehow I feel that a lot of these perfect scores on here come from the people who made the game, nice one guys. "Hey guys, our game is great and reviewers who gave it negative scores are just retards who hate our company, LOLZ, it's just like DMC but better!!!" The game might be a fun way to waste time with some friends in a its-so-bad-it-is-actually-entertaining kind of way, if it was 19Somehow I feel that a lot of these perfect scores on here come from the people who made the game, nice one guys. "Hey guys, our game is great and reviewers who gave it negative scores are just retards who hate our company, LOLZ, it's just like DMC but better!!!" The game might be a fun way to waste time with some friends in a its-so-bad-it-is-actually-entertaining kind of way, if it was 19 bucks, but a five hour pile of crap for 60 dollars?… Expand
  5. Pinksharky
    Feb 12, 2012
    2
    How to mess a good idea would be how i see Neverdead. The voice acting is horrible, the gameplay is so random that it makes it feels ''hardcore '' to some but it is just testing your patience really. Frustration is common ground with this game, glitch in graphics is even more common. Save your bucks, and wait for others games...this one should be Everdead.
  6. gayme3scenes
    Mar 6, 2012
    4
    Hey. Get off da forums. Play me at Madden. Dis game garbage. I picked this game up like, yesterday. Wasted about a good...13 hours of my time playing it. My honest review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had a better, more in depth story than this ol' hunk a garbage. This game isn't worth the amount of time the Mexican immigrants put into making the disc. Sincerely: Madden.
  7. skeith
    Mar 16, 2016
    3
    This game is not fun at all, yes, its beautiful and its creative, but the gameplay is a chore. Let me tell you why. In combat, you will lose your limbs every 15 seconds, then you have to roll like an idiot to get them back in order to continue playing or you have to stay at the corner to wait for regen. Yes, that is suppose to be your superpower, regeneration, but it backfires in the gameThis game is not fun at all, yes, its beautiful and its creative, but the gameplay is a chore. Let me tell you why. In combat, you will lose your limbs every 15 seconds, then you have to roll like an idiot to get them back in order to continue playing or you have to stay at the corner to wait for regen. Yes, that is suppose to be your superpower, regeneration, but it backfires in the game and become the most annoying thing in the game. Another thing is those Wombs, when the Womb spawn besides some explosives, then congratulations, you save some trouble, but when it is not, good luck then, you will spend the next couple of minutes slashing the womb, which cause little damage to it, and those Minions will keep attacking you causing you to lose your limbs. I seriously think this game is more like a chore, I just can't enjoy it, I even restarted the game to see if its less annoying with on Easy Difficulty, but nope, the same feeling. This is one of those unique games, but unique doesn't always mean good or fun.… Expand
  8. Avaliator
    Feb 21, 2013
    4
    Os gráficos e o conceito de regeneração são bons, e só, porque a jogabilidade horrível, os monstros foram desenhados com a bunda, os personagens não possuem carisma.
  9. OwtDaft
    May 10, 2018
    4
    + The story to the game is pretty good and the games best feature.
    + Using your head to reach locations and hidden items is the only cool use of this games gimmic.
    - The game limbs concept just doesn't work. It makes the game worse not better. - Your body is easily broken apart. Having to collect your limbs only for it to happen again is a pain. - The way you die is basically failing    + The story to the game is pretty good and the games best feature.
    + Using your head to reach locations and hidden items is the only cool use of this games gimmic.
    - The game limbs concept just doesn't work. It makes the game worse not better.
    - Your body is easily broken apart. Having to collect your limbs only for it to happen again is a pain.
    - The way you die is basically failing to time a button press when you head gets eaten.
    - Guns feel under powered compared to your sword.
    - There are enemies in the game that constantly re-spawn enemies and it takes forever to kill.    … Expand
  10. gamingisgreat
    Sep 6, 2016
    2
    Good idea done terribly.

    The gameplay in NeverDead is good hack and slash with terrible shooting.The level design is creative too.

    The game is filled with glitches and bugs on top of that.

    Graphics are ugly,but the framerate is solid.

    Sound design and soundtrack suck too.Game also only lasts 5 hours on hardest difficulty,so probably about 2 on easy.

    In short............ DO NOT BUY!

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#74 Most Discussed Xbox 360 Game of 2012

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Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 46 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 46
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 46
  3. Negative: 20 out of 46
  1. X-ONE Magazine UK
    Mar 10, 2012
    50
    A great concept with potential, torn to pieces by bland shooting, horrid dialogue and frustrating design. Swordplay can be fun but there's little else to enjoy. [Issue#82, p.88]
  2. XGN
    Mar 1, 2012
    45
    We give developer Rebellion a pat on the back for trying something original in the shooter genre, but it simply doesn't work that well. The story is dumb and so is main character Bryce. The gameplay is incredibly repetitive and gets really frustrating, really fast.
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  3. Edge Magazine
    Feb 22, 2012
    70
    NeverDead's heart is in the right place: committed to entertaining you, no matter the cost - even if it means losing your head a few too many times along the way. [March 2012, p.120]
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