Why does this game fail? Because it’s such a workout that you’ll probably find yourself growing tired of it by the end of the first level. Number one, your gun must remain on screen at all times, there are hardly any breaks in the action. Number two, every single button on the gun is used so that means that you’ll basically need four hands to play the game correctly. Can you imagine circle-strafing a T-rex with the left trigger button of the GunCon? That’s what you’ll have to do in order to survive this ordeal. After the first three levels I felt my hand cramping up and I eventually had to take quite an extended break. To its credit the game is fun for about an hour or so until your hand turns blood red and you lose sensation in it entirely. Forget about hunting for deer in the woods, this game will make a man out of you.
The graphics are just horrid, they’re barely a step up from
Resident Evil: Gun Survivor, one of the worst games ever made. It looks as if the game was crafted for the PSOne and ported over to the PS2 at the last second. Textures are rather bland and the fireworks are kept to the bare minimum. I doubt that one ounce of the PS2’s graphical capabilities were utilized in the design process. There’s just nothing pretty to look at, the foliage is pretty bad and the dinosaurs are nothing to gawk at. To put it succinctly, this isn’t the game that you want to use as the showpiece for your brand new 60-inch HDTV setup.
As for the audio portions it’s your standard fare here. There isn’t much here to distinguish it from your generic run of the mill shooter, I doubt you’d be able to tell the difference between the sound effects of
Dino Stalker and
Virtua Cop 2. Suffice to say you won’t really be impressed by what it has to offer. Don’t crank this up in your dorm room unless you like being laughed at.
I’m not sure what was going on at Capcom’s studios when they greenlighted this game. Capcom has made some pretty great games in their past but this isn’t the game that I’d want to associate with their good name. It’s got some nice ideas and the concept is pretty sweet, but the execution is just horrid. It’s one of the worst games of this year but if you’re in desperate need for a shooting game to justify that Guncon 2 purchase, you just might want to check this one out. If you value your sanity though I’d stray as far away from this one as possible.
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A truly atrocious title that nearly fails on all levels. The controls are pretty bad and the game is just a terrific failure. It's a fun game to mock, but that's about it.
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