another lazy bargain bin fps

User Rating: 4 | ShellShock 2: Blood Trails PC
shock value doesn't fix any of the many problems like spastic controls, lifeless boring animation and sound in your weapons, extremely linear gameplay, no vsync option seriously???, melee minigames that force you to press a bunch of quick random wsad sequences...yes it actually tells you to press those keys by name rather than telling you a direction to press...more annoying then it sounds when you have to do 9-12 letter sequences quickly or instant death...just to name a few things.

it's just packed full of bad/lazy design and glitches. the voice acting is actually alright and it seemed like it had a decent plot/premise behind all the flaws...but it was so boring to play, I just stopped caring.

and of course the graphics are not that great. it looks almost like an original xbox game at times. I'm not primarily graphic based. if a game looks a few years old but is well done, I can get into it. but with a game this poor it's just another negative mark on the list of problems.

I'm sure as usual you will see people trying to rationalize how this is really a great underrated psychological thriller...believe me I wish it was. it reminds me of Legendary in a way. good intentions and some clever, but poorly implemented ideas. somewhere along the line they just stopped trying and figured "eh, good enough." and a month or two from now you will see this for $19.99 in bargain bins where it belonged in the first place.