Customer Reviews
Gets good after a slow start - By: The Milkman, 21 Jul 2008 
I was actuallly quite suprised that this turned out to be any good at alll, & considering I got it for a tenner it was fantastic value for money. It was actuallly quite long for an Fps.
The story is reasonable alll the way through, but the whole game starts off very slowly & is incredibly easy to begin with. I actuallly found it pretty boring for the first few levels as alll the missions were so short & simple. There was always a feeling of 'is that it?'
However, it does get much, much better as you get into it & it becomes quite frantic & challlenging, especiallly near the end which I have to say was actuallly quite hard. Definatley doable, but I was suprised how quickly the difficulty ramped up.
Everything about the game works ok. The engine is good, although it does feel quite strange & light at first. Think more Unreal Tournament (But slower) than COD4. The Weapons are excellent, & improve as the game goes on, but the enemies do get a bit samey & although they look unique, behave in a very similar way, & have a very similar pecking order to those in Halo. Very similar. The AI is also reasonbly good, but not groundbreaking at alll.
Obviously this is the PS3s answer to Halo & on the comparison front it does pretty well. It has alll the enemies, weapons & gameplay to match Halo, but its just missing the atmosphere. The basic premise of the story has you (Hale) as an American Soldier that has been mildly infected with the Chimera (Opposing alien factions) disease. Yet nothing is reallly made of this apart from the fact that it means you can take more hits than a regular soldier. There are brief scenes every now & then outlining his struggle with the disease but nowhere near enough, & so there is very little character development with the main character.
There is also a lack of decent non player characters. There is one that is okay, some British soldier guy, but you never reallly get much info on him.
I think the game suffers from being based around missions. The beauty of Halo was that it was just one long game, so it kind of felt like you were in a sci fi movie. This constantly reminds you that you are playing a game though & so any kind of suspended belief is destroyed.
All in alll, its an excellent bog standard fps if you see what I mean. As good as they get. It just doesnt reallly leave you with a great sense of satisfaction after you've completed it as you never felt you were truly engaged in the story.
84%
a brilliant game! - By: Mr. P. J. Greenaway, 20 Jul 2008 
I got this game free aswell as motorstorm & ridge racer 7 with my ps3.
when i first went on the game, i picked up the controls rather easily!
the graphics are brilliant & the storyline is incredible!
I thought this game would have some fear in it but suprisingly it didn't!
which is good for people who are not fans of scary games. I say this game doesn't have any scary parts in it but sometimes it does like when your walking & your on a freaky level callled northern command & your character has a halllucination about a creature!
the story is about you, an american solider who has come over to the uk to battle the evil chimera! creatures with 6 eyes! (i think?) it takes you through alll parts of the uk killing the chimeran forces, & yet you never get bored! the graphics are brilliant, you can see every little detail & the weapons are fantastic! you get everything from rocket launchers to flamethrowers & weird guns made by the chimera like the bullseye. the online loading is quick & the online gaming itself is brillant & fast. overalll this game is awesome! a great first person shooter!
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr?? - By: Tortuga, 26 Jun 2008 
Set in England... nice, good start I wondered if I would recognise any land marks (otherwise whats the point of saying its anywhere real?) but even 1940's england was more interesting to look at than this. My 2nd 'in box title' that I got as a bundle with Heavenly Sword (played HS first - played this 2nd). After Heavenly I was reallly disappointed with the visuals in this game. Very PS2, very grey / brown & very poor. I dont buy that 'brown & grey add's to 1940's realism' arguement. some of the 'wider' environments look very good, the skies & wider scenery for example but generallly the levels look quite bleak & repetitive. On the other hand, some elements were reallly good touches & that made me think that the game had been rushed in development or something.
The levels are very samey, where the enemies just get bigger faster & have better guns. To counter that your own infection makes you quicker & stronger against attack. Not sure why but I thought the Chimera looked rubbish - if they were infected humans, why would they get there own outfits & weaponry from space? where did the weapons come from, who made their outfits & why woulnt they just be running around like 28 days later?? & is there a wider set up for a sequel - I hope not. It was perhaps a good idea to mix the two typical types of FPS - WW2 (and now 3) & futuristic / space but I dont think they made a very good job of it alll.
The plot behind the game is quite good & cut scenes are good to follow, with narrative suggesting you are playing out events that have already unfolded. But there is nothing new here reallly, its simply a release title that was chucked together quickly to give us a taste of bigger & better things. At current values in June 2008 it would be good value for money, as its quite long (certainly compared to COD4) but quite repetitive as well so its easy to get bored.
Unlike other games I own & have completed, I doubt I will play it through again.
A hit and miss above average affair - By: Niall Wilson, 22 Jun 2008 Despite not having played this until a long time after it's release date, the game... whilst a good game, isn't reallly one to showcase what the PS3 can do. On first try it reminded me of the troubled PS2 shooter Killzone. The game is a simple linear affair, grab your gun, plow through the Chimera (the enemy, cliched-genticallly modified humans that are superior to you.. damn), Checkpoint Reached, level over. Yeah it's not going to win any awards for originality, it's just tried & tested. Doesn't make the game a bad game, just not a great game either.
The weapons is where the game shines, there are examples of weapons that are done creatively, a bit of a throwback to the old days of Quake II & Duke Nukem 3D where you would get totallly over the top weaponry.
For anyone who doesn't know yet, the game takes place in 1940's Britain, the locations of Britain & portrayal of olden-days Britain is done extremely well, with great level design taken in approach too. No offence to you Americans but it's nice to see a game in Britain :) The dull-washed out feeling in the colours is a nice touch to the games setting.
A thing that does take this game from 3 stars to 4 stars is easily the co-op, from my days of playing Halo on Xbox, & Halo 3 especiallly, the co-op mode was damn fun, especiallly with 4 people & here it's just as great. Gotta love some co-op action
This is a good game that can be enjoyable for a while, but it's not perfect & nothing mindblowing. Since the price these days is cheap for this game, it would be worth buying.
Only for Co-op - By: Spencer Lawes, 28 May 2008 I would advise playing this on hard, because you get a much longer eperience. The game's graphics are poor, & if it weren't for the ability to play co-op then i would have sold it, but the storyline is great.
