I'm a sucker for playing bad games. I have a morbid curiosity in playing a game that has such a poor reputation that I feel compelled to experience it for myself. Over my 35+ years of gaming, The Quiet Man is up there as being one of the worst games I've ever played. Yes, I've played indie trash and asset flips, which on a technical level may be worse; but Quiet Man is just a bad on multiple levels. This game appears to have had a decent budget with backing by a large publisher and it's by a developer that has had success in the past, yet they squandered this by creating a game around a fundamentally awful idea that is executed poorly.

Whoever thought it would be a good idea to do a FMV focused game with most scenes involving the characters talking without sound or subtitles had a monumentally stupid idea. The majority of the game you will watch people talking, without having any idea what they're saying or ability to learn the subtleties of the story. It's not engaging in anyway at all.

Once you get to the fighting aspects of the game, you'll find a simplistic; but broken feeling experience. Characters will clip through the environment and each other. You'll see punches and kicks go straight through the enemy models without causing any damage. There's also no tutorial, instructions or hud so I never grasped how the fighting system really worked. Sometimes I could enter into a 'hyper' mode where I would just go ballistic on the enemies; but I don't understand when I could or couldn't get it to activate.

The one positive I would give this game is that the transitions from the FMV to environment was fairly well done and felt mostly seamless. Also, the environment graphics looked really good along with the models when they weren't actively moving.

Overall, I would only recommend this game to those that are interested in playing the worst of the worst. This game will be on top 10 worst games lists for years to come.