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Dom Robinson reviews
Sega 0
- Price: £39.99
- Players: 1
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.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.