This game is kind of odd in which the story is held together by the main character Death and it involves the 4 horsemen, the Christmas ghosts, and the new years. But it is basically original in story and game design.

Story:
You are the Grim Reaper (Death, Ghost of Christmas future) and you have to decide which group you will be with during the last month of the year and what role you will play during the new year. The groups that you have to choose are the horsemen to causing chaos or with your other friends (X-Ghosts) the ghosts of Christmas past, and present, and you take your place as the ghost of Christmas future. The horsemen War, Plague, and Famine decided to cause havoc since the disappointment of the turn of the century, which their hopes of them riding into action was teased by the false sighs and they are hungry for disaster.

Goal:
You control the Grim Reaper and must choose one of three adventures. The 1st is with the 3 horsemen (bad guys to destroy civilization, easy game), The 2nd is with the 2 Christmas ghosts (good guys to maintain civilization, normal game), which go you will be with and you have to find and stop the other horsemen from bringing on the apocalypse too soon. And the 3rd you being neutral, which you go against both the horsemen and X-ghosts (it seems that Death has gone crazy, hard game). You get help from your team member's trough out the game, and when you defeat them they join your quest. Also you can't die, the only thing that happens is that you get slowed down and each level has a time limit to complete it. When you don't finish on time the quest is over and have to start from your last saved location, because you have failed in your mission to stop the others.

Game Play:
The game view is like Diablo, but it has 2 views at the same time which one is a close up of the character which you control and the second view is further view from up to see what is around you. The game is basically an adventure but it has a bit of up beat fast action. The game has 8 worlds of each of the 6 main characters and 2 other levels which represent your replacement from the horsemen's death and from the X-ghosts's ghost of Christmas future which you will go against. You could go chooses any wold to start from when you first begin your quest, and even go to any level especially the end but you wouldn't dare go, because you don't have enough skill, experience, or team members for you to get an advantage over some difficult levels and leaders, so the odds of wining wouldn't be very good. Im not saying that game has a set path, you could go to a harder part of the world but you have to have good skills and a good strategy to do well with what you have.

Specials:
You better believe that there are specials with such powerhouses in the game. Every time you defeat a leader like the horsemen or the X-ghosts they join your quest and offer their powers to assist you. Some powers are time travel (from X-ghost of past), a time stopper (from X-ghost of present), a havoc attack to causes the enemy to fight against each other or have hoards of animals jump from the background to attack (from war), plenty of other techniques. The higher your character's level is the longer you could maintain you're abilities. You use spell points, so the more points you have the better are your chances. You could upgrade powers and combined your team mates power to have a more devastating attack like using the time travel and time stopper to go back in time a few minutes so that they're 2 deaths at the same time which you could help your self out so you could double team the enemy. With that same technique you could also choose to merge to one powerful being to have twice the power and your special would be also upgraded, which lets you do this trick again for one more time to go back a second time and be 4 times stronger. If you don't feel like going back another time you could just power up another special or combined something else to have a truly devastating assault. The main weapon is the sickle, but you upgrade your weapon with magic by using spells on it to do various things like rapid attacks, able to use it as boomerang, and others.

Music:
The music would be mostly gothic because of the main character. The music will basically be mixed with other types of music depending on the environment and the action's intensity. For example if the level's has more action is intense then the music will be gothic/heavy metal, when the action is moderate it is kind of gothic/techno and rock, when it is action is calmer it is gothic/classical. Well times up, for me. Happy New Year to you all. :)

Harry S.
harry_s_@hotmail.com

I sure like this X-mas game. Everybody seems to be making X-mas music and X-mas movies, why not make a X-mas game? Too bad that it was 3 hours late for our X-mas contest :)

Idea Reviewer:
-Vegard Aure-

X-Mas Reaper's Grim Decision - involves the 4 horsemen, the Christmas ghosts, and the new years