Headhunter

"I wish I was in a coma."

Before renting or ever playing this game I made a huge mistake of buying. It looked like my kind of game, shooting, running and so forth but when I got home, popped it into my Playstation, man was I shocked. At first it didn’t seem so bad, but it just got worse and worse and worse. I thought maybe it was just the part of the story in the game, but no..it stays like that for the rest of the game, to the point where you wish YOU were the one in the coma. With so-so graphics and a story that is equally mediocre, this game makes me sad.

STORY: 5/10
It is a typical cliché storyline for video games that can’t actually make up for it with great graphics and gameplay. You are Jack Wade and man that wakes up from a coma after running away from a strange facility, you are out to find out who killed the Anti-Crime networks Chief Officer’s killer. Sounds exciting, eh? Well it’s not. There is more scene’s where you are senselessly shooting guys that you don’t even know how they’re connected. Here’s a hint, if you find yourself asking why you are doing something, the game is not for you.

GRAPHICS: 5/10
The box art is good. That is all that can be said, the graphics throughout the rest of the game are gaping holes in them! Everyone’s face looks exactly the same, the expression never ever changes. The guns also look so unrealistic it makes me want to cry. The cars also looks so chunky and box form, it is just a very sad day for the graphics of any games. The walls have great texturing, considering it looks like a 5 year old id it. If you think these graphics are good, than I want whatever you are on!

GAMEPLAY: 3/10
The thing that absolutely destroyed the gameplay for me was the really disgusting camera work. It follows you around at the crappiest angles, and there isn’t a button to rotate it. So I often found myself dying at the hands of a crappy camera angle. But other than that, the gameplay is amazing, I mean, you can shoot cans, and runs around, and all of those things you dreamed you could do. But like I said before, I frequently found myself wondering why I was in a certain spot, and why I was killing who I was. Also, when you are in someone’s house, and you see something at interests you, you walk over to it and look, right? No, not in this game, this game has so many invisible walls. Oh, and what would you do if there was a chair in front of you, hop over it right? Not Bounty Hunter Jack Wade, he is to manly to do that, he walks back around the table!

SOUND: 3/10
The gun fire sounds like a 5 year old setting off caps sometimes, and other times they sound like a freakin` atom bomb just went off in my pants. The voice acting is crap, plain and simple. The news reports throughout the game sound like they are from a cartoon. There is little to no sound when you walk, and if there is sounds of footsteps, they are off by about a second usually.

RENT/BUY: Neither.
Don’t waste your money. Rent something else, but stay the crap away from this masterful piece of dog crap.

Reviewer's Score: 5/10, Originally Posted: 12/15/02, Updated 12/15/02