He's Jack Wade, he's got stubble, he's a renegade, he's a Headhunter.
And he's as unoriginal as Graham Norton in this game that throws in a hint
of Metal Gear Solid with a motorbike.
At the game's opening, you find yourself waking up in a hospital bed all
confused. A cute blonde tells you bits and pieces about what you need to know
and then it's off to kick butt and be all macho.
In order to progess, it's not all shoot-shoot-shoot, but you have to exercise
some stealth on occasions, such as clinging to walls to walk along thin ledges
and keep out of the gaze of the enemy, hence the MGS links, but we've
been there before and it's so yesterday's news.
When out and about you get to ride around on a company motorbike, but this is
doubly annoying due to the fact that whenever you crash, you don't come off
or slow down, but you grind to a complete halt - instantly! And you still stay
on?! If you want driving with some realism, go for
Grand Theft Auto 3
or
ATV Offroad
instead, but if you wanted some adventure at the same time then you may as
well go back to Lara Croft in
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.
How does it look though? Hmm.. it's nice and colourful but nothing out of
the ordinary. Running around makes your man looks like a lanky wally stumbling
around even if he does still manage to get from A to B as directed, but this
is nothing new since games have been doing this for years.
When it comes to the sound there's nothing to write home about either. The
bike vrooms, the gunfire bangs and the training or licence modes, where you
have to upgrade your licence if you want better firepower, hums away like
the complex dexterity test in The Krypton Factor.
If you don't care about a complete lack of anything original and really can't
wait for MGS2 to make its PS2 debut then you could do worse than at
least rent a copy of this for an afternoon to see what you think, but don't
take it as any kind of recommendation from me.
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ORIGINALITY ENJOYMENT
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
He's Jack Wade, he's got stubble, he's a renegade, he's a Headhunter.
And he's as unoriginal as Graham Norton in this game that throws in a hint
of Metal Gear Solid with a motorbike.
How does it look though? Hmm.. it's nice and colourful but nothing out of
the ordinary. Running around makes your man looks like a lanky wally stumbling
around even if he does still manage to get from A to B as directed, but this
is nothing new since games have been doing this for years.
If you don't care about a complete lack of anything original and really can't
wait for MGS2 to make its PS2 debut then you could do worse than at
least rent a copy of this for an afternoon to see what you think, but don't
take it as any kind of recommendation from me.
