Empty action, non-existant story, faulty AI, complete rip-off job... just plain awful.

User Rating: 2.4 | El Matador PC
Did you ever find it amusing to kill computer-generated characters? The actual killing part that is, seeing pixels being killed on a screen? I did... perhaps ten years ago. Now, it just doesn't cut it. I'm going to get this straight early on, killing stuff is as much as this game will ever deliver, and even that part isn't particularly well done. Oh, yes... it does deliver something else perhaps: It is not completely ugly, graphics wise. Not that it should in any way be credited to the creators of this game, since the whole engine along with the graphics was snatched from Max Payne 2, they don't even try to hide it. Now about that action... the bullet-time, jumping around and shooting bad guys in the head with a large rifle could have been somewhat exciting if it wasn't for the, already mentioned, fact that I've already played this. Except, it's even worse now. I don't remember from Max Payne 2 anything about the enemies being able to auto-aim me in the head from any range with every bullet and every weapon. The possible exception is the shotgun(s), but I'm not sure. This alon would perhaps make it hard to beat, but it's counteracted by the fact that the enemies often "hide" behind cover over wich you clearly can see their heads. Headshot! Also, the fact that they don't at all react to being shot at makes you able to shoot them without them moving for as long as you want, should such a situation arise. It's also kind of "fun" how all the enemies spawn the second you enter a room instead of being there in the first place, wich just proves that the creators realized their game would be too easy to play if you could actually apply real tactics on it. Oh, and the bosses. Is there ANYTHING that is as fun, realistic and just great as having a boss that can take 100 times more bullets than an ordinary man before he goes down (complete with a health bar!)? In a fast-paced platform game with green bunnies, any day. In a realistic current-time FPS? No way José.

Right... now about the story, its a story, and that is as much picture as there is to get about it. Roughly as exciting as a grey rock with a few specks of bird poo-poo on it. Maybe less. A good story is supposed to make me feel with the characters, but no. I'm not particularly excited over a guy that is a complete Schwarzenegger-wannabe, plus the fact that he completely and utterly makes no sense at all. No insults or anything intended, but I was very: "Wtf?!" at almost every cutscene, making me wonder how much, not if, drugs the storywriters were on. Oh, and every "turn" or pretty much anything along the story of the game was such a complete cliché that I didn't even think "I'm sure this is gonna happen!", due to the same reason that I don't go about thinking: "Hey, the sun is going to rise tomorrow!" Also, I was hoping to be playing a game, not a giant anti-drugs propaganda poster.

I'm going to round this off now since I think you've pretty much gotten the picture. The thing is, you won't be having much fun playing this game, unless perhaps if you get great kicks out of severely destroying inanimate things in unspectacular ways. Oh yeah, and the music is awful. It would possibly fit in a disco... at best. But not in this game, or any game for that matter.

I've played flash games that I was 100 times more excited over than this, truly. You got better things to do and better ways to spend your hard earned bucks. One last thing: I did play this game to its end. And no, it was not precisely challenging. It has the Doom 3 effect (wich is, walk into a room, die whilst noticing where the bad guys spawn, reload and spam the places where they spawn with all you got), wich is to challenge what gonorrhea is to you.
I will however confess that at the final boss I did cheat. Why? Just so I could be ridden of this piece of garbage instead of spending too much time and reloads at something that was sooo very boring.