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Non-Stop Action Guns Blazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game by no means is not a splinter cell. If Sam Fisher stuck his head out in this game it would get blown clean off. I just got the game and find it challenging and fun to play. The evironment is destructable all around you and you cant hang out in one place for too long. Let me tell you in level one the RPG is a bad ass gun. I stongley recommend this game if your into FPS.

Destruction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After watching all of the trailers online I couldn't wait for the release. I pre ordered the game and picked it up today. I went home for lunch and had a BLAST. I can't wait to get home this evening and play it some more, but from the first few missions it's as solid as they said it would be.

Revolutionary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game opening day myself, and it's not dissapointing. Practicly everything is destructable. Action is non-stop, and Like the other guy said "you can't hang out in one place for too long". Try it on the third level near the end and your done for. The game is long too. I've gotton to the 4th level and it says 5% done. Anyway hopefully you can get the silver weapons, and the BigFuc*ingGun (BFG). In the end this blows Halo clean away, and for $40 it's a bargin.

Fantastic

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 11
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am 40 years old and have been a Gamer since PONG came out. I have NEVER enjoyed a game as much as I have this one. The only thing they could do to POSSIBLY make this game any better would be to have it Hand-Delivered by Jessica Alba.
Great Job!
Doc

Brilliance

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The creators of the best-selling Burnout series brings you Black, an awesome game that I put with Halo and Half-Life (I think those are great games). The graphics are really awesome! The sound is actually really good as well as the physics. Cars explode, balconies fall on your enemies by shooting them, you get the idea. Almost everything is destructible. Back to the controls- it is similar to Halo, Half-Life and Doom. The sound of the guns/sound effects are cool. The only thing I wish you can do is drive or jump. Now I'll simplify things:

Pros
-Excellent graphics
-Excellent sound
-Super strong weapons
-Very fun

Cons
-Enemies are a bit too strong (Takes about 2 or more shotguns shots to kill one.
-You're a too to weak and need many health packs.

Perplexing
-You can't jump?
-Can't drive?
-So... why fight terrorists again?

Oh, and unlock now and get the BFG! (Big F**cking Gun)
Hope this was helpful.

Fantastic gameplay and little else...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As always let's start with positive because everyone likes good news. The core gameplay is phenomenal. Phenomenal. Guns sound realistic, environments blow up and can be destroyed, there is always plenty of ammo, many objectives to complete through out a mission, seriously this is a very well put together single player game. Yeah, I said single player - I'll get to that a little later. The men and women of Criterion are the same people who brought you the fantastic Burnout series and have decided to take a swim in the FPS pool. In my opinion, they've nailed the gameplay. While the game is a blast to play (pun intended) it's not without its flaws...

As for the bad news. The game is single player. Criterion said they purposely did this to focus on the best single player experience possible without having to divert any effort into making a possibly flawed multi-player add on. The focus was single player all the way and I'm very glad they took this path. Now, while the single player is great - it seriously is way too short. For those of us lucky people who've played the demo, you can beat the first mission (there are 8 total missions) in under 10 minutes. I'm not even joking. I tried to go as fast as I could and ended up besting mission in under 4 minutes. Sad. Granted, the rest of the missions take anywhere from 25 min to 35 min, any seasoned FPS player can beat this game in under 5 hours. For a game that launches at $40, that may be a bit steep.

Let's talk replay value. 4 difficulty levels. Beating the game on normal gives you silver weapons which means unlimited ammo. Beating the game on hard gives you sliver weapons and unlocks black ops difficulty. Conquering black ops will give you a wonderfully powerful gun that no one has ever heard of before in a FPS game. Ready for this one? It's an M16 with grenade launcher. Thrilling. And for that awesome BFG, it's nothing more than a large machine gun with 500 bullet capacity with 150 round clips. I mean, it's not like I've spoiled anything by telling anyone who's ever played a FPS game about weapons that every game already uses. So there you have it, those are your incentives for playing through a second or third time.

To close this review on a positive note, I'd like to say that I did love this game. I loved every minute. It is short. It does have some short comings but if you can see past these things and just want a game where you can blow up everything in sight and use destructible environments to your advantage against the enemy, this game couldn't give it to you any better. It's still in my top 5 for FPS games. My only suggestion to you the consumer is that you first rent or borrow the game. Unless you will keep it to play again to relive the ultimate destruction, you may feel a bit ripped off. I know many of the people that have this game reviewed haven't played through the entire game. They will see what I'm talking about. For what it's worth, I applaud Criterions first effort into this genre. I applaud loudly. Everyone who has played this, I can guarantee, is going to be looking forward to Black 2.

A great first person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have only had this game for a day now and love it. I can't pull myself away from it. And, at $40 it is a great deal. Not too much strategy invloved, just kill the bad guys. Only two complaints; one, you can't save within a mission, this means I have to play mission all the way through else I have wasted my time and two it is a one person game, I personally prefer playing videogames that allow me to play with a friend.

BLACK

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

picked up this game yesterday from my local gamestop. I was very apprehensive making the purchase knowing from early reviews that the game was very short and the review on gamespot made me very worried that the game would not be worth a purchase. Never the less i really wanted this game. So i went home and popped black into my x-box. As the menu screen appeared i couldn't help but sigh when i saw no multiplayer option. So i started single player on normal difficulty. So this is my take on Black.
The opening cutscene, which by the way is a live action cutscene, shows the main character of the game Keller in chains and being grilled by some gov. guy. The plot in Black isn't very involving and the live action cutscenes aren't impressive in the least. So my first impression of the game wasn't an expecially good one. The first thing you'll notice about BLACK as how great the graphics are. The lighting effects and explosions are spectacular. Steadily the game picked up and got better with each level. I wasn't very impressed with the first couple of levels in black. Your stuck using the AK-47 for the first two levels and though there was a good amount to blow up the environments aren't as destructible as i would have hoped. But around the third level is were Black really gets good. You start getting to use the different weapons in the game and i found the majority of them to be very cool. The missions in Black are simple basically you go around shooting terrorists and collecting info. There are a lot of side objectives like finding secret documents and such but none of it's actually required. The action is intense and a hell of a lot of fun. This is another one of Black's strong points. The firefights are loud and intense. The a.i isn't terrible but they don't tend to do much beyond shooting at you and hiding behind combustible objects. The game makes up for some of the a.i's shortcoming by throwing **** load of enemies at you so you'll always have your hands full. There are also friendly soldiers that
occasionally accompany you. They shoot at the enemy a lot but

unfortunately they don't hit very much. Basically all they are good for as drawing enemy fire. But that won't matter because you should have enough firepower to handle everything yourself because you get a generous amount of ammo from fallen enemies and it is very likely that there will never be a point in the game were your running low on bullets. Enemies also will drop plenty of health kits to keep you going. The weapons in the game look good, sound good, and most of the games 13 weapons are a blast to use. But there are some weapons you simply won't bother to use because you can stick with your basic machine gun and be better off. Some of the explosive weapons in the game really kick ***! The level designs are solid and generally there are ****load of things to blow up. You'll be sending a lot of terrorists flying in every direction thanks to the conveniently placed explosives and rag-doll physics are top notch. Some environments are more destructible than others and some are not as destructible as you would like. Some of the better level designs allow for Matrix Style destruction. The music in the game is actually pretty good but believe or not their is a custom-soundtrack feature in the the x-box versian of black. I was very surprised and delighted that i could listen to my own music in game. As far as i know there never has been a FPS with custom soundtracks,

unfortunately most fps's have multiplayer which this game lacks. This blacks largest flaw besides the short campaign. I don't understand how the **** this game can not be multiplayer. Criterion claimed they were going balls out on single player, which granted kicks *** and offers ok replay value. But a six hour campaign that's really going all out! We can only hope that their are future installments of black that include multiplayer and hopefully a longer campaign. Though it isn't likely i hope that maybe jsut maybe Criterion could release an expension to black on the current systems that includes multiplayer and an extended campaign. It is a longshot but there is always hope.

Overall is a great FPS that is lot of fun while it lasts. I wouldn't recomend buying this game obviosly because of the short length but i don't regret purchasing BLACK because it is lot fun time and time again but i know it won't last forever. If you do anything you must rent BLACK and experiance the hollywood stlye action.
I would give BLACK solid B.

Great game fir those who just want to just shoot the heck out of everything

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: March 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Just picked this game up from Gamestop. I'm only on my third mission, and I can't stop playing. Amazing sound, amazing graphics. If you want a game where you just shoot everyone and everything then this is for you. My biggest gripe is that you can't save within a mission, so I recommend you allocate 30 minutes to an hour of free time to play out a mission or else you will have to start from the beginning. ALso, I don't like the fact that it takes more than a couple of shots to kill a soldier, I'd rather kill them quicker and have more soldiers coming at me. More to kill!

Guns, Lot's of Guns....Woah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

You cannot complain about a feature that isn't in the game when the game's creators have already said that it wouldn't be in it, and when it is also on the box that you either purchase or rent. No, it isn't a multiplayer game. But that shouldn't detract from it. Look at two recent popular games: Half Life 2 and Battlefield 2 or Battlefield: Modern Combat. Half Life has a great single player mode, but their multiplayer is Counter Strike which was a mod that went commercial. Then there is Battlefield: modern combat whose single player campaign IMO sucks. You only play that game for online gameplay.

BLACK nails the FPS just fine. Criterion just put their spin on it as they did the racing genre. I'm sorry but what made Burnout BURN was the spectacular crashes. Without that it would be just another racer in an oversaturated market with games that far surpass it.

Criterion said in the beginning when they began advertising that this game was all about the guns, and I'm sorry, that's one of the main reasons that I play modern combat games like the Clancy games and Battlefield: the variety and authenticity of the in-game weapons. Most of us will probably never get to actually wield the real-life counter part of any of these weapons (and would you really want to given what using them would entail?). They modeled, skinned and animated the guns with great detail and then the sound. *sigh* wow. Turn the bass up a little and crank the mid's and highs on your 5.1 and be prepared for an ethereal experience.

And I don't know what this talk about the game being too short is all about. Maybe I need to get a little further, but I've played 6 missions and the game says that I'm 25% complete and I'm playing on normal. I've gone back to the first level and played it on hard and passed it then checked my status again, and it was still at 25% complete which leads me to believe that I have way more than just 2 missions ahead of me. And if it's only 2 more missions that take up 75% of the game, then that's groundbreaking in and of itself. The levels are HUGE and YES, it has averaged me about an hour and ten minutes per level because I try to move with stealth as much as possible and I like to get all the secondary objectives. All that's going to do is enhance your experience and extend your gameplay so go all out.

Bottom line is this game is cheaper than other new FPS' and the sound and special effects are awesome. I don't believe any other game has gotten it so close to the Matrix lobby scene, outside of Matrix: Path of Neo, but then that's not an FPS is it?

If you're a gamer then you need to check this out, whether you rent or purchase. I typically purchase any game I like and rent those that I'm unsure of. If you're a FPS gamer then yes this needs to go into your library.

What are you doing still reading? Click add to cart or run out to your local store and pick it up. I'm not kidding. You won't regret it. The bigger your screen and better your sound, the better you experience.

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