Venetica - Reviews @ GameShark, 411Mania

A couple of Venetica articles, with not so good results for Deck 13's game. First, GameShark has a "Shark Bite" video review with a dull and disinterested player demoing a section of gameplay and saying the game has "an issue or two".
Next, 411Mania has a review with a score of 5.2/10, mostly due to the graphics, slowdown and glitches on the X360:

Now, I’m sure it hasn’t sounded so bad so far. In fact, it’s probably sounded pretty run of the mill. Now, we get to one of the worst aspects of the game, the graphics. Sure, they look like an Xbox Live Arcade title, but that’s not the big problem.
The problem is the slowdown and glitches. In Venice, you’ll start noticing more and more people chugging along and the overall game taking a hit in speed. It gets just as bad when fighting multiple enemies or bigger enemies. You’ll also notice some glitches on the way, but these are more interesting and even a bit humorous to see. The main one I kept seeing were random swords just floating in the air.

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I couldn't watch more than two minutes of that video. This guy gets paid for this? Every second YouTube Let's-Player does a better job.

Yes, dreadful. I too gave up after two minutes.