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KISS Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (Dreamcast)

Gathering of Developers
Action
Players: 4
M (Mature)
Developer: Tremor Entertainment
Released September 30, 2000

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

59 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Hot Games
Take KISS out of the picture and you have a mildly entertaining shooter that does an adequate job of shooting things up. But if you're a KISS fan expecting lots of face paint and heavy guitar riffs, forget it.
76 Sega X
The second flaw in this game is the exclusion of multiplayer support, and I mean support in any kind.
67 Core Magazine
A mindless shoot 'em up in every sense, and doesn't try to conceal that fact. If this type of gameplay appeals to you, give this circus a chance.
62 IGN
It was supposed to be more, and you always feel that when chopping through level after monotonous corridor. It was supposed to be a KISS game, man.
56 GamerWeb Sega
It's blatantly obvious that no-one was willing to put the time and effort in to make this a game worthy of your money.
50 DC Swirl
The rock stars featured in this game might still be getting gratitude from female fans, but gamers that buy into "Psycho Circus" are getting screwed with a plain old snow job.
50 CNET Gamecenter
KISS fans will almost certainly feel ripped off by the band's phone-in appearance. However, for those who simply want a game with a high body count, K:PC definitely piles the carnage quite high.
50 Daily Radar
Alas, KISS Psycho Circus just plain sucks.
45 GameSpot
Instead of fixing any of Psycho Circus' problems, adding some Dreamcast-only levels, or even just making the game an exact port of the original, the programmers at Tremor have actually removed some key features of the PC version.

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