"Clan of Champions" is an ancient Playstation 3 game from 2012. It's a whopping 11 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions, hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge.
This is an extremely consolesque ancient era third person brawler (console peasants enjoy third person perspective most, because they become confused, angry and afraid if they can't see themselves on their television sets). It's not great, it's dated, and it's an incredibly sloppy and lazy console port.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision.
The implementation here is of such poor quality, the developer couldn't work out how to make the game display in fullscreen, it only runs in a window.
Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone.
Controls are also locked and can't be changed. In fact, [b]this game has no options screen at all, whatsoever[/b]. Maybe there's some ini file or other config application? Don't care if so, it's not supposed to be obtuse. If you launch the game from a Steam URL, you get no options. What a train wreck.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 16 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
"Clan of Champions" is relatively expensive for an abandonware nostalgia gouge, at $1.50 (plus another insane $7 USD worth of DLC... how about a DLC for a game menu!?!?!), and it's not worth it. The game is just too old, hasn't been modernised. And as the old saying goes, you can't go home again.
