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| Game Details | Released
24 February 2006 | | Format
PS2, XBox | | Developer
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Black
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With it's tense gunplay, brutal one-shot kills and exhilarating rewards for players who curbed their gung-ho urges, Rare’s 1997 hit GoldenEye changed the face of console blasters, steering the genre in a more realistic direction and punishing players who couldn’t control their itchy trigger finger. By contrast, in adopting a back-to-basics approach and the sort of savage action that made Virtua Cop an arcade classic, Black is one of the most deliriously thrilling shooting games in years.
Developed by Criterion — the coders behind the psychotic Burnout series — Black thrusts players into a volatile world where everything can be destroyed, making for an explosive experience that feels like a Schwarzenegger flick circa 1985. Rather than the slow, edgy action of contemporary blasters like Rainbow Six, Black is all about blowing doors off their hinges with a sawn-off shotgun, mowing down legions of soldiers with an endless supply of bullets and igniting fuel tanks to unleash teeth-rattling explosions, making for a chain of wild and deeply satisfying skirmishes that are a breath of fresh air in a genre that takes itself
much too seriously.
Even better, while it’s enormous fun taking part in the fierce fire-fights, the aftermath of your killing sprees is just as gratifying, with huge chunks gouged out of the Eastern European environments, enemy corpses strewn across the dusty streets and thousands of empty shell- casings carpeting the ground. Criterion’s dubious ambition to create the first ‘gun porn’ game has been beautifully realised.
With the Xbox 360 already in stores and the PS3 looming on the horizon, the current generation of consoles are sure to experience a drought of quality software in the coming months. But if you’re determined to stick with your machine until the bitter end, Black
could be the last truly great game on the PS2 and Xbox.
Reviewer: David McComb
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| RE: RE: | | Black is awesome i think the motto used on this game is "If you cannot solve a matter using a gun, you are not using enough bullets" i think this sums the game up quite well really ... Read More
| | | booker16 About me | | 23:03, 23 March 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: | | Yeah wats up with that? ... Read More
| | | dr_finklestein About me | | 22:56, 16 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | | | Umm, why is BLACK game of the month (for Feb 2007) ?
Fun game for sure (I thoroughly enjoyed it when I still had my PS2), but it came out nearly a year ago ! ... Read More
| | | BertyBasset About me | | 23:53, 05 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | ... | | | SHOULDN'T FINAL FANTASY XII BE GAME OF THE MONTH!? ... Read More
| | | LeonX42 About me | | 02:56, 03 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: RE: | | | black is unlike other fps, thank god, i like a game wer the player in nearly invincible and de enemies are much stronger ... Read More
| | | dr_finklestein About me | | 20:05, 02 February 2007 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: RE: | | BLACK follows in the tradition of many FPS shooters that have passed before it,most noteably in my opinion the mighty GOLDENEYE.Not since the N64 saving grace have i played a game like it,no silly ray guns fireing green blobs here,but the finest hardware available.From the M16 to the americans bane the famous RPG they are all here and many more and very satisfing the are too.The levels are impressive aswell,although only numbering 8,they are some of the largest levels i have ever had the pleasu... Read More
| | | danbo1138 About me | | 15:28, 03 November 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: RE: | | L: The2ndRing
I'm not a fan to be honest, I find the lack of checkpoints frustrating. 8 Levels, play it 8 times and it's done, I thin Resident Evil 4 was far superior
bsp;and hides under sofa*ote]
I agree with you there. I started this game the other day (after finishing Resident Evil 4) and was mightily impressed with the graphics, sound & action sequences. But the 2nd level took me absolutely ages, and when I go killed I got sent back to a checkpoint I reached... Read More
| | | siwolf About me | | 12:53, 20 April 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: BANG BANG! | | I was seriously let down. Sure, the graphics and a few of the physics rules are good but apart from that its a very standard rail shooter. Its a no brainer that just needs buckets of patience rather than skill. Boring. ... Read More
| | | BigKovacs About me | | 13:03, 06 April 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | BANG BANG! | | | HOW COOL! basicly you walk in a building blow the living FUCK out of everything walk out kill some more bastards blow,up more stuff and walk out, oh and kill more stuff. BUY it it completes you!! ... Read More
| | | kingkong66 About me | | 18:50, 02 April 2006 | Report This Post | |
| | | | RE: | | | I'm not a fan to be honest, I find the lack of checkpoints frustrating. 8 Levels, play it 8 times and it's done, I thin Resident Evil 4 was far superior
bsp;and hides under sofa* ... Read More
| | | The2ndRing About me | | 22:12, 26 March 2006 | Report This Post | |
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