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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Value... If you're a serious ganes player!, 24 Jan 2003
Make no mistakes, the concepts behind this game are VERY simple. Pick a boat, choose which guns to put on the boat, shoot other boats. If that description puts you off, don't buy the game - it's a simple as that. If you're still reading however, I'll assume that that didn't put you off TOO much! The mission structures of this simple action game mainly consist of driving around shooting other boats with the occasional added thrill of a time limit or a special boat to kill. This game isn't worth £40, agreed. This game is WELL worth £20 though! But why? Well, simple though the concept may be, this game is well worth getting into. At first it seems as though there is absolutley no skill involved in blowing oposing boats away - but as you soon find out from about level 5 in the games massive 24 mission campaign, this game is VERY hard, even on the easiest difficulty! You'll have to learn to be fast and deadly in the water, using torpedoes, cannons, static shockers, chainguns and mines to best efficiency. Get the hang of the awkward controls (rather like driving a vehicle in Halo - you should know what I mean if you've played Halo... if you haven't however, what are you doing thinking of spending your money on ANY game other than HALO?!?) and there's a LOT of depth to this game. About 25 boats to unlock, 8 maps (which don't really seem that diffrent, but are still nice) and 8 Game modes (such as player vs computer team deathmatches). The 4 player multiplayer deathmatch modes are great as well, just work out who's what boat first - it's absolutley no fun if you're all battleships... but what about a 3 speedboats vs 1 battleship match? Just how many torpedoes CAN you dodge?!? You'll sit down to play this game for 5 minuites, and you'll die, and you'll try again, and you'll get into that whole "Just one more go" spiral that has ruined every gamers social life! And the best bit of it all is, you DO get better, and then when you go back to deatmatch against you're friends, you'll be playing 3 battleships vs 1 speedboat, and still sending their ships to the briny depths! Bwaaa haaa haaa! Long live the Shadow Clan! P.S. When I say hard, just take the fifth mission as an example - it forces you to capture and defend 3 ships, whilst throwing bucketloads of faster, stronger boats at you. It seems impossible at first, but when you learn to aim those torpedoes.... ooooo, the satisfaction of seeing those boats go sky high!
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