While providing you with every opportunity to cop out and play it as a first-person shooter, under the hood, Jedi Academy boasts the finest melee combat system I’ve ever seen, in any game, at any time.
There’s some story about recovering a sword to save the world – told throughout with poorly-acted cut scenes. But who cares, really? What we want is hot ninja-on-ninja action! And we get that in spades.
Manhunt ups the bloodletting by an exponential degree. You’re a criminal, but now you are the hunted. The grisly nature of the game becomes rote and pedestrian as it plods along.
This game has big dreams. It really wants to be a movie. Between the time you hit the start button at the title screen and the time you actually get some gameplay action, you could eat more than a few cannolis.
The finest FPS I’ve had the privilege of playing. Download the demo and the superficial resemblance to Medal of Honor fades away when you’re dropped into some of the most fully-realized battle sequences you’ve ever seen.
Our story, again, is contrived and poorly realized. Bad CG with even worse voice acting, taking place immediately following the resolution of the first game.
A complete package in every sense of the phrase. It has enough game to keep you occupied for months, and it just so happens to be the best 3-D fighter made.
Its 2000 predecessor proved a first-person shooter set in the Star Trek universe can bear excellent fruit, so it’s no shock Elite Force II is a very good game.