Chaos Legion is a fast paced action game in the vein of Devil May Cry, where you play a redheaded swordsman who can summon monsters, called Legions, to help him fight. The game excels at throwing massive numbers of well detailed monsters at the player, but sacrifices line of sight and level detail to do it. While the Legions are an interesting addition that could have added strategy to the game, leveling them up makes them too powerful and makes your choice of Legion less important. The game is also extremely short, making it a somewhat decent rental for fans of button mashing action games but also making it a hard game to recommend buying.

Some unspecified number of months ago, Seig Warheit and Victor Delacroix lost their close female friend, Siela, in an attack on the Order of St. Overia. Delacroix blamed Seig for her death and disappeared for a while. He returns at the beginning of the game in typical bad guy fashion to break Seig's most powerful Legion and taunt him about it. While there are cut scenes between areas in the game that try to progress the story, all you really need to remember is that you are the redhead fashion victim chasing the androgynous guy and looking for the 9 pieces of your broken Legion so you can reform him. As you progress through the game you also get one level as Arcia, an acrobatic gunwoman wielding dual pistols that has no Legions for herself. Completing the game makes it possible to play all the levels as her.

This game throws swarms of monsters at you-- massive waves of monsters created by attackable generators. Each monster also has its own vulnerability, for example, mechanical monsters resist melee attacks but are damaged by electricity. When your Legions are weak it's important to choose the right ones to do the job based on the type of monster you will be facing. However, as you fight with Legions they earn experience points, and periodically monsters will drop experience gems that can be used on any Legion. These points let you level your Legion's abilities, and eventually they get tough enough that you can easily force down an opponent that should be resistant to your Legion's main attacks. There are also Boss monsters, incredibly tough creatures that require a good sense of timing and knowledge of their weak point to defeat. These are the most challenging battles in the game, but they become easy once you discover the correct pattern to defeat them.

To make up for the massive swarms of monsters, the game had to make some trade offs. The most noticeable one is the ever-present fog. You can never see too far ahead of you because fog will obscure your vision. The second is the level architecture. Chaos Legion has some of the most boring level design in recent years, coupled with hideous textures covering all the surfaces. It's simply a very uninteresting game to run around in. Also among the game's shortcomings is the camera. When you add a lot of monsters, many of which are twice the size of your character, and a camera that doesn't adapt well you can easily lose sight of your character entirely and have no idea what's going on. Alternately, the camera will occasionally go into a close up zoom for no apparent reason. The controls also feel a bit sticky. Sometimes when you go into a combo you will be unable to change direction not only during the combo but for a couple of seconds afterwards.

The packaging of Chaos Legion describes the game as a "savage gothic opera" but with a lean, clich? story and easy combat it's really an uncomplicated brawler with goofy costumes and camera problems. Action fans might find the game a temporary diversion, but it has no staying power.