The subject has somewhat gone off the boil,
Partly due to delays to titles like UT3, & the terrible Blacksite Area 51.
But, Fear not, Because if your after an extra shooter to add to your collection, here are a few Underater shooters, that are far better than there average reviews suggest...
So Here's a quick look at a few...
The Club, Orange Box, Medal of Honour Airborne, Conflict denied ops & Lost planet..
The Club
Bizarre creations, the makers of the Project Gotham City.. Millions play & love Project Gotham because it seemlessly moulds together your standard Race, with the "Kudos" system, which rewards its players with points for skill,
The system has been around since Midnight Street Racing on the Dreamcast (Kinda like Project Gotham 0.5)
And it's the kudos system that makes Project Gotham the title it is..
However With The Club, Many reviewers have approached the game as a simple "Run & Gun Shooter..."
and the scores have been dissapointing,
However If you approach the club like you would Project Gotham You find it's much more of a game...
Sure there's no Story line, and a typical Kill isnt that tough,
But it's the skill element which makes The Club the game that it is...
Every Kill gives points, based on distance, hit location and prior moves.
So smash through a door, pop some guy in the face, side-roll behind a crate and pop-up to take out another guy, then spin 180, to fall the guy shooting down on you from behind..
This simple scenario might take a grenade in some games, and you'd pass it without a second thought,
But the club challenges you, to go for the head-shots, to roll in & out of cover between shots, and to spin hitting skull markers to further increase your multiplier.
You can play the club running from A to B and killing the goons, and it's a pretyt poor game,
But if you want a challenge, try to beat the leaderboards scores in there millions, and you will realise that the club is a much more entertaining, challenging & rearding shooter than first impressions.
The Orange Box
Another shooter that hasn't received great reviews, and theres no wonder why, Steam decided to develop Orange box for th eXbox 360 & Pc, but allowed EA to designate there own small french in house developers for the Ps3 version, and.. it shows..
On the PC & 360 Orange box has been stated as the best game this side of the millenium,
And althoguh the PS3 verison isnt as good, it's still a damn good shooter.
Sure, Half-Life 2 is an old game now,, it's been around on the Pc for donkeys-years,
But combine that, the two expansion chapters, aswell as Portal & team fortress and the quality sounds amazing
Sure the Ps3 version has a few framerate issue sin places, and team fortress 2 can be laggy quite easily, and Portal, while a brilliant innovative puzzler it isnt worth the money alone.
But, Half life 2 is still 5 games in one,, it's still getting reviews for 80-85% and just because th e360 / pc version got reviews close to 95% it doesnt mean the Ps3 version is a bad one.
Medal Of honour: Airborne
When medal of honour was released, it made me laugh,, actually it almost made me cry, MOH:Airbore was the only game to be released on th e16th November,,,
Great, But on the 9th came Call of Duty 4,, And that pretty much put an end to any number of people buying MOH:Airborne,
then people looked at it, 6 levels, high recoil and not as good as COD4, ment MOH:A wasnt ever going to be a top game.
However It's still well worth owning,
COD4 is modern warfare, so it leave splenty of scope for this world-war based shooter,
ike many wanted with COD, there are vehicles, you do parachute from a plane, And the levels are even less linear than COd4 meaning you can do anything anytime (as long as they all get done)
There are only 6 main misisons, but judging that each will take an hour, and you probably wont do them all first attempt, your looking at a longer single player campaign than Cod4, And while call of Duty currently has the monopoly in online shooting, Medal of Honour is still a purely enjoyable FPS, that is well worth picking up.
Conflict: Denied Ops
After playing the demo, I admitted that Conflict Denied ops was "utter b0ll0cks"
graphics are barely last gen, let alone next gen, 2 characters with 2 weapons each seemed somewhat boring, and the promise of online modes didnt seem all that promising.
However now I own the game I can see it's an entirley differant shooter,
Weapon upgrades evolve your weapons in a Splinter cell way, adding gun cameras, shotgun & grenade launcher attachments, and giving you a RPG to play with.
the game isnt particuarly tough, and many of the objectives can be overlooked aslong as you get from A to B.
theres not much in the way of a story,, you go there, shoot, you go here shoot, stop this, save him, and hooraaah the world is a safer place.
The story mode isnt groundbreaking but it's still a decent enough game.
But it's multiplayer where it counts, play through the whole story in co-operative, online split-screen , as well as multiplayer deathmatch's etc, it adds an awful lot to this shooter.
overall, while not as good as you'd hope after the previous games in the series,
But not as bad as you amy have thought especially after the poor "Empty" demo which features the 1st part of the 1st misison (before you touch any upgrades / vehicles
And Finally............ Lost Planet
But Lost Palnet has been receiving mixed reviews,
The 360 fanboys are giving it a score around 6/10, saying "it's just a 360 port a year too late"
But other scores are coming in at a steady 80% stating that while it is a 360 port, it's done well, it still has the great 16 player online multiplayer, and a pretty damn good selection of weapons/ mech's and a strong single player story.
the best of all is, it will cost £25... and while I'm getting it after near-completing it on the 360, many people who owned it originally will be put off, especially considering the only addition is a few new characters in multiplayer.
But for Anyone who never had Lost Planet on the 360, Then for £25 this is a must buy,
It wont knock Call of Duty 4 or Rainbow Six Vegas's fan-base,
But it will give you a good 5-10 hour sof enjoyment both on & offline
