Shellshock 2: Blood trails

[Dowly]

Ok.. what can I say about this one.. except it sucks.. not much.

The game's set in Vietnam. You are a soldier named Nate Walker and it's your first day in there! You are immediately dragged to some lab-kinda thingy, where you meet Griffin, officer with a testosterone poisoning... oh wait.. now that I think of it, everyone in this game has!

Anywho, you are in the lab-thingy to try to speak to your brother, who was in a specops squad tasked to recover something called "Whiteknight" from a crashed chopper. He was the only survivor and went nuts, whoop-di-doo, give the story writers a banana!

Of course everything goes tits up when you meet him, he get's loose and escapes. And like a clockwork, the VC decides to attack the town at the exact same time! Another banana for the writers, this time to the other hole please!

Sooo, you head out of the lab, into the town and try to escape, you get a knife in the start (NEVER EVER have had to use it), a huge farking machete. Just few minutes later you find a pistol, so like I said, no point on having the machete.

Ow yeh, forgot to mention you try to escape with Griffin... well.. kinda.. that's what the writers make you think. Basically, what griffin does in the town is tell you to get moving and heads off, thanks alot! Oh he kills an wounded US soldier too who doesnt keep his mouth shut (Slit's his throat), what an arse.

Aaanyways, you make your way thru the town, killing VCs, having few scripted CQB moments. Those are made with the 'Press right button at right time'-style, only good thing about them is that you can choose the way you kill the opponent, either shoot him or hit his head with the rifle butt... several times (You know, like Bunny does in Platoon). Nothing special about the first mission.

Right, let's move onto the game and why it sucks to much.

1) It's a rip-off of billion games and movies. First of all, the special ops squad missing in jungle story is almost like that of Predator. Then there's the "Whiteknight", a drug or a gas that turns everyone mad (read:zombies), Resident Evil anyone? Ow the zombies puke blood on you too, that's 2 for Resident Evil!

2) The story and how it's driven is just painfull. The mission follow each other as they should, but there's just something that bugs me. Especially if you meet someone during/in the beginning of the mission, he talks to you and then disappears. I mean, the jungle/town is filled with VC and zombies, shouldnt we stick together!?
And then there's stuff that just doesnt make sense. Let's take the last mission I played, I ended the mission with an M16, 4 grenades and a pistol. The next mission started right from the point the where the last ended, but guess what? My only weapon was a pistol! WHAAAT!!!!??? Other occasion was when I was riding a Huey to a command center, as the chopper was landing a soldier came to the landing pad and shot the pilot, making us crash. Then the soldier tells me that "we are evacuating to the highground". Umm... you know, we could've used that chopper... Just didnt make any sense at all! There's plenty of moments like that in this game.

3) Maps! Town fighting, defending, underground torture chambers, VC tunnels, jungle, it has it all. Just too bad they all sucky sucky looong time. The jungles are tuberuns, filled with traps. You get 0.0001 seconds to push the right button to evade the trap and this is on easy difficulty! Some maps are pretty nice, I give it that, but for the wrong reasons! If I think that the best thing I've seen in the game by far is the clouds on a map where there was thunder, there's something wrong, dont you think?

4) Not much to say about graphics, think back to Shellshock 1 and try and remember how it's graphics were compared to other FPS games of the time and that's it. Not bad, not great.

5) Weapons! AK47, M16, M21, some VC rifle, shotgun, RPG, grenades and pistols, that's what you have. The AK & M16 are pretty much the same, burst to the VC and he drops, but you want to use AK as all the VC uses that so you never run out of ammo. The M21 and the rifle are IMO useless, they are slow and why you want to use them if you got AK, anyway. Pistols come handy at times and they are pretty powerful too. Shotgun's what you want to use, kills VCs and zombies easily and is accurate. Shoot a zombie to the leg and off it goes. Now, the grenades are a joke, it kinda varies when it kills and when it doesnt. At times, you can throw one to the feet of VC and he just yells and keeps shooting.

6) Ambience/horror stuff. Now, this game should be an horror game and it sure tries to be! There's alot of times when something attacks you from behind a closed door and scares the crap out of you. The dark jungles have nice ambient sounds, zombies growling somewhere, wildlife, branches snapping around you. Same goes for some of the tunnel maps, you hear screams of ppl being eaten alive and all that stuff. But there's also maps where there's just too much sounds to make it sound right. For example, I was in a cave, suddenly I heard a child crying (BTW, I havent seen one child in the game yet) and immediately after that you hear bats, and immediately after that you hear screams. Now that isnt scary, that's just a soundflood pouring to my ear. Apart from the sounds, there's really nothing scary in the game. There's some brutal scene's with soldiers dragging themselves in the trenches with both their legs cut off, soldier hanging on the wall with billion kitchen knifes in him, you know the usual Doom stuff.

****e, I really cant be arsed to write more, so I just say: DONT BUY IT! If you're looking for a new horror-FPS, I think you should try maybe FEAR 2 or something. This game gives you horror, maybe even makes you stay awake at nights after playing it, but that's just because it's so darn horrible game!

STAY AWAY!

Dowly out!

[Weiss Pinguin]

Wow, Vietnamese zombies... I can just see that as another retarded Sci-Fi channel movie. :rotfl: Thanks for the heads up!

[Dowly]

Oh and I may add that the game is short and if you need a good weapon, try to find the M60, 1-2 hits to a zombie and it goes down.. oh wait.. no, you dont want to own the game! Sorry, my bad!

[Tachyon]

Does the game have a red triangle on easy mode?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Tachyon

Does the game have a red triangle on easy mode?

No, put red crosshair when you point it to enemy.

[evan82]

"Shellshock: Nam67" is the best.

[Oberon]

Holy thread necromacy Batman!