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Winback Review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 21
Date: May 10, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Winback For The PS2 is a Sad Excuss for a game i liked it better when it was called Metal Gear Solid This game Tries so hard to be Metal Gear it is sad..The graphics are PS1 Quailty and the game play is Horrible you can barely move there is no side straf and it takes 3 gun shoots to kill anyone thats if you player does not auto aim straight at a wall in many cases He does...

This game Get's a big controller Down... Dont rent dont buy DONT PLAY! -{_{V}_}aDness

Bad Story, Fun Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game relies heavily on MGS, but nevertheless it is fun. The story stinks, the graphics do not live up to what PS2 can handle, and the voice overs are cheesy. Plus you really don't care when the other charachters die. The idea for the plot is good, it was just poorly executed. But, this game is fun because you can do things that you cannot do in any other game ex: pop out from behind a wall or from a box. There isn't enough weapons to play with but the ones you get are adequate to get the job done. If you like games for the storyline then I would not reccomend this one. But if you are into games for how fun they are you will like this one. Even if you never play the story mode, multiplayer and bot mode will provide you with hours of fun.

WinBack:CO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

winback is an awesome ps2 game. some missions are hard but the new bot mode and not new versus mode are still awesome. the graphics kick, storys good, and gameplay rules. what more could you ask for?

Winback

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

winback is an awsome game! First off you can hide behind crates and jump out and shoot someone. And bot mode is very fun to you can team up with your buds and shoot each other, how cool is that. well one player mode was kind of hard for me but to those of you who liked Metal gear solid you are going to love this.

Great Game, But It Doesnt Last Forever.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was looking forward to this game since KOEI announced its remake. I used to work for a Gaming Magazine who's name will remain a mystery for certain reasons... I only have a few problems with "WinBack". #1. You must be stationary in order to shoot. Granted, thats not that bad of a problem, but it could've be helpful if you could. #2. The English voive-overs are worse then a American-translated Japanese Godzilla Movie, an they really ruin the emotionial moments of the game. #3. The Story, while good, is kinda Cheesecake. Other than that, it has been greatly improved since the N64 in many ways, and is a great Action-oriented Game. Its no Masterpiece, But with MGS2 not due til fall, it will certainly warm us up for that massive adventure.

OKAY GOOD ENOUGH

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 11, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is actually a pretty good game. When you are playing it it quickly becomes evident that this low budget sleeper hit(what some call "The Poor Man's Metal Gear")is very repetetive in its style of gameplay. But this action game still manages to be a lot of fun. Borrowing heavily from Metal Gear in its story and gameplay it is an action oriented game with plenty of things to blow up as you venture through the game. The game plays more like a cartoon than the more serious themes such as in Metal Gear so the game is more acceptable to kids but is fun for all ages.

Best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Please dont listen to the people saying this game [is not good]...It is one of the greatest PS2 titles ever. You will never get tired of multiplayer, and the single player is fun as well.

Go buy this game!

Winback for the PS2 is an okay game..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

WinBack takes the player through the heart racing adventure of Jean-Luc Cougar, a member of the elite anti-terrorist squad S.C.A.T, as he & his team attempt to stop a terrorist group called the "Crying Lions" from using a space sattelite to blow up random spots on earth. But did his team bite off more than they can chew??

I'll start off by saying this game is wicked repetitive, but it is fun. To start off your main weapon, the handgun, has unlimited ammo and will quickly force you to choose it as your weapon of choice. You run around as Jean, doing rolls, aiming with the R1 and firing with the X buttons, pressing up against crates & walls for cover, flicking switches, blowing up laser boxes, shooting more terrorists een though you are heavily outnumbered (usually 4 or 5 against one), and collecting the very small array of generic weapons - a shotgun, an assault rifle, and a silenced handgun. Oh, you also get a flashlight later in the game.. dont know if I should mention that.

There is a "Bot Challenge Mode" where you run around (depending on the challenge) either alone or with a computer controlled bot and fight off other teams of bots. I believe there is 20 challenge missions? Whatever. As you beat them you unlock characters to use in multiplayer mode. Hah, multiplayer mode is where the real fun is at. You and, if you have the multi-tap adapter, 3 friends can go either toe to toe in a free for all or a team match in a variety of stages where anything is cover and you can jump over railings and what not. Its really fun.

Sadly, the enemies attack patterns are bland and very predictable. You pop out from cover, shoot two or three times, take cover again, and the enemies shoot once or twice, then stop and stand there as you jump out from cover and repeat the whole process again. Unfortunatley, the aiming system doesn't really help out in a lot of spots. Lets say there is a guy standing on a ledge above you who poses the biggest threat, and there is a guy below you - more than once I found myself jumping out thinking I was going to aim at the ledge man only to find my gun pointed at the ground guy. Sure you can manually aim, but by the time you begin raising your handgun or whatever up you have already been shot once or twice. You'll hit them only if your lucky, or you'll die first.

What I thought was really cool in WinBack was the fact that you ran into your entire team as you progress in the game.. and almost all of them die in some brutal way or another, but after witnessing their deaths you (the player) feel you must avenge them. Take the guy Law who, after forcing you to go onto an elevator alone because enemies were coming and he insisted he would slow you down, fights & kills all the terrorists after sustaining a few more wounds.... then as he sits down to recoup, Cecile (one of the main enemies) comes and caps him right in the head. Or take Mike Hawkins, the fat pony-tailed demolitions expert in SCAT, who opens an elevator and catches a whole clip of rounds by a boss right in front of your eyes. Although there is no blood, and the enemies blink & dissapear as if it was on the NES system, the game is pretty violent and really helps add realism to the game.

The voice acting takes away from the realism of the game, sadly. There is almost no emotion in any of the characters exept the generic terrorists who scream "STOP!" or "HOLD IT!!". Jean-Luc in particular sounds unenthused and straight up bored in every cut scene. I guess I can't say too much figuring N64's WinBack had no voices just dialouge boxes. However, the music, although many don't like it, sounds pretty good. It is a sort of an eerie techno beat which, I guess, helps add darkness and hart pounding sensations to the atmosphere.

Generally speaking the graphics are alright. The character models of the SCAT members look really good & smooth compared to WinBack's N64's release. The stages are massive and pretty detailed with graffiti sprayed around and boxes and ladders and stuff scattered around.. did I mention the levels were massive? The terrorists look pretty interesting, but look good all the same. However, some of the bosses, look lame - like this big diesel guy with a huge .50 caliber machine gun.... and a purple shirt. Come on now.

I'll tell you straight up this game is hard and pretty long (31 missions), with only a handful of checkpoints scattered in each level. Boss fights are hard where, just like in Spartan Total Warrior, you'll fight the boss in a small room while fending off against a bunch of other average terrorists while avoiding exploding barrels or lasers. Other times you'll enter a narrow hallway with two large windows on your right and left and as you walk into the room enemies come pouring in behind you, to your sides, and in front of you and all you have to use as cover is speed, rolling, and a single box. Oddly, if you take too long or take too much damage, it actually effects the ending. My ending for this PS2 release was garbage - my entire team got killed except the geek Keith. Jean-Luc & Keith stand on a helipad, waiting for a chopper above them to evac them outta there. WinBack Mission Complete!!

Once you beat the game, depending on your score and what difficulty you played it on, you can unlock "Max Power Mode" (which is basically infinite ammo for each gun), or "Trial Mode" where you pick a level and run through it as fast as you can to test your speed.

To finish this lengthy review, I am going to suggest if you like shooting things, are a fan of the N64 version, or simply want to see how your entire team dies then play through WinBack: Covert Operations atleast once. Although hard, the game can be & is a fun, interesting experience.

If you like 1st person shooter games you will hate this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: September 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst shooter game I have ever played. Weapons are pathetic, movement is akward, and aiming is purely painful. When I see the name KOIE on any other game I will certainly know not to by it. Seeing the 4 star average rating on this site makes me think that most of these reviews are bogus.( Has anyone ever seen a game with a poor rating on this site? I have not. This game diffenitly deserves a zero.) It disgusts me that there are games of this crappy nature allowed on the market. Give me a break.

A remake that kills

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When i got my PS2 this was the first game that I bought. When N64 was still in I had played the game and liked it, but you how it is, out with the old in with the new. This remake a way better look than the N64 vesion but is still the same game. The best difference is the graphics. They are really smooth and the characters move in a real way. The moths on the characters get annoying after awhile. But over all everything about the game is great. Bot mode is a new addition to the game and is really fun. You can set pu battels with your friends on your side or even a computer player against up to six bots. A plus is that you can lower or rase the bots AI in the setup. Bot mode can be hours of fun if you get bored of Story mode. This game is great, and it makes Metal Gear Solid fall to its knees and pry that Metal Gear Solid 2 will be able to beat the greatness of this game.

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