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Disembodied purposeless meandering

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's possible that this game would seem easy to someone who's played first-person shooter games before. I've played a lot of third-person shooters such as Ratchet and Clank, as well as adventure games such as Baulder's Gate: Dark Alliance. I found the controls completely non-intuitive. There is no tutorial, no way to learn how to operate the controls except being thrown into a level and repeatedly dying. There is a cooperative two-player mode, but when one character dies that player has nothing to do but sit around and watch the other player continue for many minutes--not much fun!

Non-intuitive controls: the right analog stick controls your character's rotational movement and gun aiming simultaneously, in some mysterious proportion. So when I move the control there's no way to tell if my character is just rotating her gun relative to her torso, or actually turning. My partner descibes the controls as "mushy, like driving an 1957 Buick." Furthermore, there is an "auto lookahead" mode which supposedly "returns your viewpoint to the horizon." At best it moves your viewpoint *toward* the horizon, but not all the way.

Overall the feeling I got was one of floating through the environment without actually being rooted in it, with there being only a very loose association between what I did with the controls and my character's actions on the screen. I spent a lot of times walking into walls and getting stuck in corners. Sometimes I would get hung up on some obstacle that was literally not visible on the screen, so that moving the controls had no effect on my character's movements. Only by backing out and changing the camera angle would I be able to see that there was actually some object that I had been hung up on.

The only level we played all the way through was a maze. My character died, leaving my partner to retreat out to the checkpoint. He wandered around for 10 minutes before finally stumbling on the exit--a maze of twisty passages all alike. It was difficult to get a sense of how far you'd travelled or how much you rotated. Again, there was a feeling of floating through the environment without being rooted in it.

Finally, there seems to be no story to this game, despite our playing in "Story Mode." You're dropped into the game with no idea of where you are or why you're there. There is a button you can press to bring up a one-sentence mission statement, along the lines of "Find the X and bring it to the Y." But since there's no tutorial, we just discovered this secret mission statement by accident, after trying and dying. Most importantly there's no motivation--why do I care about X? What difference does it make if it gets to Y? And why is it worth killing all these people to do so? In short, why should I care?

bad control

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 22
Date: November 12, 2000
Author: Amazon User

this game seems to have been rushed out to make the deadline. the control is very bad, and that kills the game. but there are people still lineing up in front of best buy target and any other place that sells the playstation 2. On ebay 500 bucks is at least the going rate, why well its all just hype just like the dreamcast there wont be any great games for 1 or 2 months. until then people just feel thay have to have it, because its so hard to get they feel like their missing out on something. Back in may I preordered one on-line, my friends laughed and said they would wait for the release, then came the word of delays and not being able to ship as many as they wanted to, well I got one on the release day and the only thing i can say is the dvd player works ok, the games out now are not must haves. maden not any better then nfl 2k1. just because you cant find one in any store please dont waste your money and pay any more then 299 its just not worth it, the system is good and in one or two months the games will get better,and you will be able to walk into any store and buy one. the scumbags who get them and sell them online, for 250 more then they paid for them, are not worth dealing with, avoid the hype and just wait its your money you know how hard you work for it.

Don't let them lure you in!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I was in the store one day, and I picked up the game "TimeSplitters". I had just traveled an hour to get to the store, and I had fifty burning dollars in my pocket. I scanned the back of the box to see what it said... Saying how it goes at a smooth 60-frames per second, I thought 'Wow! That pretty good!' Also it had a level editor! I told myself how not many platform-systems had this diversity found in it. Me, being a big first-person shooter fan (such as Half-Life, Quake, and Unreal Tournament, to name a few), I thought that this was something good. I decided to show it to my brother, who was also a fan of such games. He told me to wait and read reviews. I bought it anyway.

I get home and put it into my PS2... I'm sitting there having bullets shoot into me from every direction, but I said that I was just not used to the controls. If someone asked me if I liked the game, I lied and telled them I did. I had just spent (...money) on it, so I wanted to like it. I have beaten Quake 3 on nightmare, Unreal Tournament on godlike, and Half-Life on multi-player games, single player, and all the rest. But THIS game... the controls are EXTREMELY awkward. You have to press a button just to bring out your crosshair, while the enemies easily shoot you. I have beaten this game (only on the easier modes, I had not the patience to go through again), and believe me, I made a mistake.

CONS:
-Cartoon-like graphics
-Poor control configuration system
-Cruddy storyline (which is normally be compensated by good play)
-It costs (...) money
-Eidos apoligized publicly for making such a crumby game

PROS:
-Collects a lot of dust

Unoriginal and Bland

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 8
Date: May 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My brother-in-law got this game for free, and I still think he overpaid. I spent an hour trying to play it, and found it a tired retread of "Doom" or "Wolfenstein 3D". In fact, I wished I could just pop Wolfenstein into his Playstation 2.

If you need a good FPS for your PS2, try "Red Faction" or even any of the "Medal of Honor" games. The FPS genre has evolved too much to settle for inferior game design and execution. If you want something with "Doom"-style game play, I suggest playing "Doom". At least the PC controls were pretty simple with that game. "TimeSplitters" suffers from poor control mechanics, particularly when it comes to aiming, and vague mission objectives. Usually, you have to find something, but you don't get told up front (you actually have to pause the game to get your mission directives). The graphics are very smooth and once the level loads, and assuming you can survive long enough to enjoy the framerate, there is no disruption in gameplay.

Maybe "TimeSplitters 2" will improve the formula, but it's too late to win me over. There's just too much competition to ever have to worry about a clunky shooter.

Control?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: October 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to love this game, but the controls made it impossible to play. I'm shocked at the love fest this has generated, given the awfull control options. A little code to support a USB mouse would have been greatly appreciated here! I spent all my time trying to get my cross hairs aimed at something while getting plugged full holes. I had a few ideas about configuring the control layout to make it playable, but the rigid pre-defined choices wouldn't allow it. Traded it within a few days for something that was actually fun to play. Rent it, and see if you can live with the controls first!

This game is horrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the worst game for playstation two don't ever buy it.

This is pathetic

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: June 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't as good as most of the 1st person shooters on the PS1. For a release on the PS2 this is a pathetic excuse. You'd be better off buying Syphon Filter 1 or 2, or Medal of Honor for the PS1, or waiting for new versions of those games to come out on the PS2.

I'm sorry

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is really lame, I got to play it yesterday when a friend brought his ps2 over to show it off.

There is no story, you just get plopped in to the level, the levels are pretty lame, and the monsters are horrid, and many things are modeled all blocky.

The framerate is nice and smooth, no wonder though, everything is pretty low poly. and for some reason it takes forever to load the levels... an very long time.

Save your money for better games, the SSX game looked pretty beautiful.

Queasy

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game right after I recieved my PS2 because it looked fun. I'm into futuristic stuff, and that's what I was getting from the front of it. However, it is not futuristic other than the fact that there are a couple of characters that are from the future. I hated the game. The controls are extremely hard to master (though it can be done, and I'm sure they can be changed), and you have to spin a lot. It sounds stupid, but it can get you extremely "motion" sick and queasy feeling. I took it to a video game place to trade it in, and the guy ended up only giving me about $25 for a barely used game because so many people had traded theirs in.

I definitely wouldn't suggest this game.

Not what I expected!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: January 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Is this PS2 graphics or just taken from the original PS? The graphics are for the most part dated and very weak looking and the game is only semi-fun if you play the multiplayer death matches. Personaly I prefer Unreal Tournament for PS2. If you want to buy this game at least rent it first, or if not, it's your funeral.

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