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Posted 06:02pm 14/03/06 by: Dan
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Most of the popular first person shooters make their mark by doing something new and innovative or having an addictive multiplayer component. Criterion's Black does neither of these but if you like guns, and you like explosions then there's a good chance you'll like Black. Set your brain to idle and stumble toward today's review for the low down.
The game presents you with a very generic action movie style storyline. The insubordinate one man army that does whatever it takes, regardless of personal consequence and public safety. However, much like your bread and butter action movie, Black really just doesn't need a compelling narrative. Why? Because you have a whole lot of different guns and you can blow stuff up.
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Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:16pm
Static
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:16pm

Black makes me touch myself

Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:22pm
Nitrofish
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:22pm

Black makes me touch Static ... erm... did i say that out loud?

*runs*

on a more moral note, Black is the best Xbox FPS IMO

Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:24pm
Groove
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:24pm

no touchies because of no pc support :(

Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:53pm
WG
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:53pm

pleases dont touch yourself everybody

Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:58pm
Boomstick
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 6:58pm

Black looks rad.

Tue 14 Mar 06, 7:21pm
QuiT
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 7:21pm

I'll probably get it when it goes down a bit.

Tue 14 Mar 06, 7:42pm
Boomstick
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 7:42pm

I'll probably get it when it goes down a bit.

Ditto. It looks like a hoot.

Tue 14 Mar 06, 8:11pm
QuiT
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 8:11pm

Yeh a bit of fun to crank up the dusty XBOX

Tue 14 Mar 06, 8:47pm
Pherone
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 8:47pm

its aight..good pointless action.
No multiplayer though...sucks hard!

Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:00pm
judstinator
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:00pm

BLACK is such an awsome game, I had it on pre-order for like 2 months and was dying to finally pick it up last week when it came out. I have it on PS2 and this game has to be one of the best looking games around on current gen systems.

Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:44pm
QuiT
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:44pm

If Black makes Static touch himself whats white do? :P

Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:52pm
Nitrofish
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:52pm

i dont think you want to know :S

Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:52pm
Dead_Eye
Posted: Tue 14 Mar 06, 9:52pm

saw this on a xbox at jb today, it looks like it blows goats.

Wed 15 Mar 06, 8:41am
Pherone
Posted: Wed 15 Mar 06, 8:41am

Rag dolls are no existant.
Its Linear
Sound is good
Graphics are nice (cmon , its xbox) ....but after shooting piles upon piles of bad guys...u want something more.

Its a good bit of fun. But nothing amazing or ground breaking.
Doom 3,HL2, BF2, FEAR.... Most of the current and upcoming fps on the pc are 50 times better.

Wed 15 Mar 06, 11:29am
Creedy
Posted: Wed 15 Mar 06, 11:29am

I'd been waiting for this game to come out for about two years, ever since I first read about it.
Had it on pre-order as soon as I could.
Received it and played it through in about 10 hours on hardest difficulty. It's definately the most fun I've had on a console FPS in a long time. The sound and music is beautiful, the stage designs are great and the last section of the game was the most intense experience I've had in a long time with a game.

Considering I own both Dooom 3 and FEAR and still havn't finnished them. I must say that I enjoy Black alot more then those two games. It's great mindless exploding fun. Doom 3 and FEAR got the atmosphere done perfectly however and FEAR's AI is sheer brilliance.
Half Life 2 is way better then Black of course, because it's Half Life2.
As for Battlefield 2, it's a bit unfair to compare an online multiplayer game with an offline single player game. Compare Battlefields single player campaign however and Black blows it to chunks.

Wed 15 Mar 06, 9:30pm
fluffy_the_giant
Posted: Wed 15 Mar 06, 9:30pm

pc version ment to be made

Thu 16 Mar 06, 9:59am
dodgebear
Posted: Thu 16 Mar 06, 9:59am

You can skip cutscenes if you have previously finished the level.

Thu 16 Mar 06, 11:45am
Xoi
Posted: Thu 16 Mar 06, 11:45am

Bought the game the other day, played it for 20 mins then got sick of it, so I returned it back to EB games the next day :P

I have no idea why I bought it, as i'm not much of a fan of console FPS, I guess the pretty graphics made me feel sqiushy inside. lol

Mon 20 Mar 06, 12:33am
Ghost
Posted: Mon 20 Mar 06, 12:33am

I just wish it was on PC ...

Mon 20 Mar 06, 2:34am
Sly
Posted: Mon 20 Mar 06, 2:34am

I came pretty close to buying this but then I remembered that I suck at fps games on consoles. :(

Tue 28 Mar 06, 10:21pm
maverick
Posted: Tue 28 Mar 06, 10:21pm

cant wait for black 2!!
how good was the last mission...
love the way it was told. bit too short, i would prefer shorter but more missions. wickid replay value.

a Q for someone who has played it though:
howcome when you get your results at the end of each mission (kills etc), mine didnt show any damage? is it coz you have to do it in hard or something? coz i completed it on normal...

Sun 09 Apr 06, 1:51pm
maverick
Posted: Sun 09 Apr 06, 1:51pm

just a useless peice of information: i was playing burnout last night and on the loading screens before you start a race, where it shows different cars you can unlock and places to get signature takedowns, one of the cars shown is a black one, with bullet holes sprayed over the car and 'BLACK' written on the side... o0oo0o

Sun 09 Apr 06, 2:06pm
Raol
Posted: Sun 09 Apr 06, 2:06pm

uber :O

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