| There has been a lot of coverage of this game throughout its development focussing around the fact that it differs from your standard FPS action offering by making betting a prime focus for the game and so now the time has finally come for us to make up our own mind.
As usual with a game of action and intrigue a number of loading sequences with dramatic trailers try to give you a sense of being part of the plotline which is set around 1997. The backdrop story and aspects of the setting are pummelled into you but all you really want to do is get playing. Some games you just want to sit back and enjoy the dialogue and let it all wash over you with its inventive cinematics but what you are offered here is standard stuff, adequately done, with some bad language.
Set around now, which means in an alternative world where war is raging, the usual trouble and strife scenario with corporations getting larger and where peace seems an impossibility. A nice by-line is that money used to be the root of all evil, now it's the root for all survival... perhaps not an alternate world. War we are told is big business and entertaining with a TV show called Bet on Soldier, where two opposition factions are pitting against each other in a violent war theatre which generates even more money, especially for the TV audience who, you've guessed it, can place bets. | |