The game ends up being a very tedious run through of a middle of the road, dated, FPS. You do, however get a very snotty sounding English lady telling you take the disc out of your CD player, as it's only compatable with the Dreamcast (!) which is quite surreal. There are also rumours that if you put the GD rom in a CD player, it'll play a few classic Kiss tunes -also not true. There are rumours on the internet that if you put the GD rom in your PC that you'll get a Kiss pinball game - not true. Ace Frehley's platform boots, Gene Simmon's shoulder pads or Peter Criss's cod-piece. As the player, you go around collecting pieces of Kiss costumes. Well, fuck all really! You might find a jukebox or stereo which will play a Kiss song. So what's it got to do with the band then? (initially the main selling point for me - who doesn't like spandex and stage make up?) The macabre stories focus on exploring the deepest, darkest corners of the human soul." (according to Image Comics.) In fact it's got more to do with a comic: " KISS: Psycho Circus chronicles the adventures of an unusual traveling circus. So what is this monstrosity all about then? Ostensibly a first person shooter/mythical quest type thing, the game has very tenuous links to the rock legends Kiss. Six or so years later, I decided to give it a go for the second time. But some sort of software or hardware glitch had cut my playing experience short. It was, in fact, the first the first FPS I'd ever played. I'd played it a little way back in the day, and my hazy memory recalled it as being a little bit different to anything I'd seen before. Rubbish graphics, rubbish design, just plain rubbish." I should have heeded the words of our leader, instead I chose to recklessly ignore them. In there, is a review of Kiss Psycho Circus, which says: "This game is appalling. If you look at the sidebar of the Dreamcast Junkyard, you'll see a section devoted to Tomleecee's Dreamcast reviews. Thus, I've played/endured a Dreamcast game called Kiss Psycho Circus: the Nightmare Child. But in every gamers life comes the need to reconnect with his Dreamcast, and most recently I decided to do this via the unholy game mentioned above. I've played some great games on a variety of systems so far this year - Resident Evil 5, Gears Of War 2, Left 4 Dead, God Of War, Resident Evil (remake), House Of the Dead Overkill, Tekken: Dark Resurrection, and so on.
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