An abridged version for the BlackBerry developed by Glu Mobile was released three months earlier.

[1] The game was originally going to be published by Brash Entertainment,[2] before it was picked up by Namco Bandai.

[17][18] The graphics, gameplay, story, menu systems, and level design were criticized.

Nicky Woolf of The Guardian likened the level design of the Xbox version to "a four-year-old with only three different crayon colours" and labeled the quick-time event combat style therein as "annoying".

[6] Dan Whitehead of Eurogamer described the combat as "relentless" but the game as a whole "barely succeeds on its own terms.