3.5/5 ★ – Endless_backlog's review of Van Helsing.

As a kid I absolutely loved the movie and it wasn’t until I started playing this game i felt nostalgia and really it was no surprise I’d played it before. Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Van helsing along with others from the movie and I thought they all done a great job on this. The game starts early with boss fights ending each level which I personally always loved from this era. With so many classic characters in the story such as Mr Hyde, Frankenstein and Dracula the game was perfect for this style. I liked the ability to gather points and upgrade things such as max health and ammo, as well as buying replenishers for these things to use in battle. There’s also a fun selection of weapons like crossbow, Tojo blades and elephant gun. I personally found it was much more weighted in the struggle for health but an abundance in ammo during my play through. There’s also good parkouring with the grapple gun and double jumps. One fun quirky addition is that your hat falls off whilst fighting and you have to manually collect it again. At the end of each mission one of the stats is wether you finished the level with it on or not! For me this is a classic PS2 game and a good example of movie to video game executed well.