Release Date:
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Game Platform:
PS3
Price: $59.99
The Skinny: The Chimera virus has spread across the seaboard and now threatens the United States. Nathan Hale, infected by the virus, straps on his carbon rifle and heads back onto the battlefield, hoping to save a world that's slowly succumbing.
The Good: Sure the set-up is formulaic as hell (cough cough Halo 2, Halo 3, Gears of War 2 couch cough), but that's because, well, it works. After escaping the first section of the game, you'll encounter the full extent of the Chimera virus invasion: three gigantic Chimera capitol ships hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge, a sight that'll have you looking out your window just to make sure that it isn't actually happening. Even more impressive are the co-op and multi-player options, which allow you to team up with up to seven other friends and go through very different missions based around the impending Chimera invasion. Either way, you'll level up and increase your e-penis with trophies and other such spoils of the Internet.
The Bad: The story isn't exactly Tom Clancy-in-motion, but all you really need to know is that there are a shit ton of aliens invading and you need to go kill them. Again, it's a formula and again, we're not totally sick of it yet. Yet.
Maxim Tip: Sony is boasting that it will take 420 hours to complete everything there is to do in the game, or approximately 18 days of continuous play. Better get to it!
Buy, Rent, or Disembowel? Buy it.
The Skinny: The Chimera virus has spread across the seaboard and now threatens the United States. Nathan Hale, infected by the virus, straps on his carbon rifle and heads back onto the battlefield, hoping to save a world that's slowly succumbing.
The Good: Sure the set-up is formulaic as hell (cough cough Halo 2, Halo 3, Gears of War 2 couch cough), but that's because, well, it works. After escaping the first section of the game, you'll encounter the full extent of the Chimera virus invasion: three gigantic Chimera capitol ships hovering over the Golden Gate Bridge, a sight that'll have you looking out your window just to make sure that it isn't actually happening. Even more impressive are the co-op and multi-player options, which allow you to team up with up to seven other friends and go through very different missions based around the impending Chimera invasion. Either way, you'll level up and increase your e-penis with trophies and other such spoils of the Internet.
The Bad: The story isn't exactly Tom Clancy-in-motion, but all you really need to know is that there are a shit ton of aliens invading and you need to go kill them. Again, it's a formula and again, we're not totally sick of it yet. Yet.
Maxim Tip: Sony is boasting that it will take 420 hours to complete everything there is to do in the game, or approximately 18 days of continuous play. Better get to it!
Buy, Rent, or Disembowel? Buy it.