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by Andrew Bub
June 09, 2006
The cover art says it all. This is a game about guns and ammo and what they do to people.
Reviewed for PS2.
Also available for XBOX.
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It's a first-person shooter, with a clandestine military feel, that worships οΎ– guns. It's short, giddy, explosive fun with an obscenely high body count and a pot-boiler thriller style storyline that makes you think about the kind of B-movie action thriller that only plays on Spike TV, late at night, when nobody is watching.
The game features state-of-the-art graphics and is actually far less gory and tasteless than it could be. The bloodshed is surprisingly restrained; the developers seemed to feel that realism should trump pleasing fans of gore for the sake of gore. Instead the focus is on firing lots and lots of bullets. Enemies are reasonably intelligent and fight from cover, ambushes are frequent, and the game's physic's modeling is excellent. You can shoot through barrels and thin walls, and you can collapse platforms by firing on the supports. It's an excellent shooter, reasonably challenging, but painfully short (also the generally eye-rollingly bad cutscenes aren't skippable). This one might be a better rental because what it amounts to is a proof-of-concept tech demo. Your rapid fire physics and location damage works guys, now give us a better game to go with it.
It's a game about killing and using guns to do it. It's a gun nut's dream come true. That said, the developers showed restraint in the gore and the game isn't as tasteless as the B-movies it makes you think about. The storyline is trite and predictable, and it's something you have to sit through whether you like it or not (thanks for that). Also the "hero" is a cigarette smoker and spends every scene doing just that. The game is a good thrill ride but it's hard to recommend any game that worships guns and ammo like this one, to kids of any age.
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