I saw a commercial for this on TV, and while I had never played the video game I always thought it looked cool so I decided to pick it up.
Well firstly, orginally I was under the impression that it was a movie, but actually it is the first 4 episodes of a series. There is a paper in the box that says the next 4 episodes will come out on DVD in two months, and then the next four two months after that, and so on until they are all released.
Alright, the main character is called "Beyond The Grave" (Grave for short) and he is sort of this flesh golem/zombie guy made from the corpse of a dead man. He seems to have all the classic ghoulish powers, ie superstrength, fast healing, etc. However I never played the game, so I don't know too much about his abilities, and only the first episode is about Grave. The next three are about this punk kid named Brandon Heat who grows up on the streets. Brandon is the guy who ends up being turned into Grave.
The first four episodes were pretty good, sort of a modern-time western. However, only the very first episode is about Grave, and judging off episodes 2-4, a good chunk more will be about Brandon Heat and his life rather than Grave. So it hasn't been anything that I was expecting, but I wouldn't mind getting the rest to see how it turns out. Grave's character is cool and a lot like what I was expecting, but like I said it doesn't seem like he will really get into the story until the end. It says there will be 7 volumes, and if each of them have 4 episodes, well that is a lot of episodes.
