Frayhua Reviews: Shellshock 2: Blood Trails

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails

A FPS in Vietnam with zombies.

Style: Single- player First Person Shooter
System: Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC
Developer: Rebellion Developments
Publisher: Eidos Interactive
Release Date: February 24, 2009

Story- The story is about a man named Pvt. Nathaniel "Nate" Walker to locate his brother Spec Ops Sgt. Caleb "Cal" Walker who lead his troops to retrieve cargo called Whiteknight, only to become the source of infection of the Whiteknight virus. Whiteknight turns people into psycho zombie killers. The story feels like Apocalypse Now + 28 Days Later.

Presentation

Graphics- Shellshock 2's graphics are masked by darkness and it is impossible to see anything unless you turn the brightness up 80% to reveal the games true graphics: A low budget PS2 game mistakenly put onto next gen systems with unnecessary upgrades and lots of framerate issues making it almost as bad as Far Cry Vengeance for the Wii.

Sound- The sound effects are ok and the voice acting is passable.

Gameplay

Single -Player Campaign- The gameplay for Shellshock a shooter where you go from Point A to Point B fighting Vietcongs and zombies. The A.I. is a mixed bag because the Vietcongs are a joke because they do mediocre damage and the zombies are cheap and not fun to kill like the zombies in Left 4 Dead because this is a single player game with no co-op or no ally A.I. to back you up toward the end of the game. The aiming isn’t very good when fighing zombies because it feels like your holding a plastic gun in your hands. The Six-Axis motion control is very tacked on because it’s not very responsive when you shake it to do the quick time events from Call of Duty 3. This make it impossible to kill the first enemy unless you change it to button mashing. The ememies always like to spawn behind you. Overall, the campaign takes about 4 hours or less to complete this game and doesn’t offer any signs of replay value and their no trophies for the PS3 version. This game is a must avoid.

Overview

- Dumb A.I. (Vietcong)
- Cheap A.I. (Zombies)
- Respawning Enemies
- Boring generic shooter
- Too dark to see anything unless you turn the brightness up 80%.
- Poor Framerate
- Lame tacked on Six-Axis controls
- Lame Graphics
- Bad value with no reasons to play it again