Zack’s Big Honkin’ Game Guide: Page 7
August 4, 2007
Area 51
PS2 X-Box PC Mature
A competent and cinematic FPS that is too horribly linear to have any success in a market crowded with many better alternatives.
6.5/ 10
Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2
PS2 Mature
A cooperative Resident Evil could be great, the reality is it’s not. Lack of communication kills the online play while idiotic AI kills the offline.
3.5/ 10
Star Wars: Republic Commando
X-Box PC Teen
A unique Star Wars take on the squad based shooter. Features flowing graphics and solid controls, but some enemies are unbalanced and overused.
8/ 10
Rise Of The Kasai
PS2 Mature
A pure, thoughtless button masher. The combat is unique and the art style is cool but too many invisible walls and a frustrating camera ruin the innovative parts.
5/ 10
Dead To Rights II
PS2 X-Box Mature
Plays like Max Payne light. It’s light on story, strategy, and even bullet-time. This is pure mindless arcade shooting with little to capture the imagination.
5.5/ 10
Brothers In Arms: Road To Hill 30
PS2 X-Box PC Mature
Combines squad based shooting with the bloated WWII genre to decent effect. AI is good enough to make it work and keep things challenging.
8/ 10
Doom 3
X-Box PC Mature
The third coming of the original FPS with wonderful graphics and story. Walls bleed, shadows kill, and flashlights only light three feet ahead. Very scary.
9/ 10
NARC
X-Box PS2 Mature
The drug using and dealing concept is fun, for about five minutes. The rest of the game is plagued by poor mechanics and boring missions.
4.5/ 10
The Matrix Online
PC Teen
A quality MMORPG hosed down in Matrix juice. Certainly the best matrix game yet and a welcome difference from the traditional fantasy MMORPG setting.
8/ 10
By Zack Rovinsky
