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A great game just like the N64 version only BETTER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: April 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the greatest Third-Person shooter games available on any system. The PS2 just makes it better. The graphics are amazingly detailed and the sound effects are awesome! In the new feature, BOT Mode, you feel you are really in the game with all of the gunshots wailing past your head. It's one big shootout. This new mode is my favorite part of the game. It includes a custom version and challenges, which when you complete, characters become unlocked. It's a team version of the versus mode. The story mode has a great setting and for all beginners, a tutorial mode to explain the basics is available. You must take my word and buy or at least rent this game! It's a must-have for anybody!

Another worthwhile game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 16
Date: March 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Now this game orignillay was from the N64. It is a fantastic game with incredible moves. The only problem at the time was, it was not popular at all. I think KOEI CORP remaking and putting it on the Ps2 was a good idea. People now may look at it since it is one of the first games on the PS2. The graphical power is very good, not great but good. The music can get to you on Versus mode. Thou versus mode is the funnest to me, because you get a little more challenge with it. This game hopfully now will make it well known. I would rent it to be honest because the levels are incredinbly long and you might get a bit board. Just rent it so you can ... your brother or friend in versus. Have fun.

WinBack:CO

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

winback is an awesome ps2 game. some missions are hard but the new bot mode and not new versus mode are still awesome. the graphics kick, storys good, and gameplay rules. what more could you ask for?

Great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is cool it is so cool being able to crouch and do all that other stuff this game has everything James bond and those others games didn't the ability to fight, ... this game you can kill lot's of guy's easier and more efficiently and being able to do this makes the game easier and more enjoyable the game takes some thinking but usually all you need is your machine gun.The movies are cool and so is multiplayeryou can also close combat fight in this game which is also cool but the funnest part is using a huge machine gun against alot of guys the only thing wrong with the game is it takes a little while to get used to and you only get a machine gun, a pistol,a silenced pistol,shotgun c4,and a rocket launcher but those gun's get the job done.

Winback

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

winback is an awsome game! First off you can hide behind crates and jump out and shoot someone. And bot mode is very fun to you can team up with your buds and shoot each other, how cool is that. well one player mode was kind of hard for me but to those of you who liked Metal gear solid you are going to love this.

WinBack: Best Game Ever!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is great. You get to do all the stuff just like the James Bond movies. The single player is a ok mode of play where you and a team of SpecOps guys try to take back(or Win Back) a base over run by terrorists. The multiplayer is probably the best mode of play. You can choose to play by yourself or with a friend. Also, there are plenty of characters to unlock in multiplayer which keeps you playing. Also, there are seven modes of play and three of those modes you need to unlock. The first is the story mode which is the main mode, then there is the bot mode(multiplayer and single player instant action). another mode is verses which is multiplayer. Then there is tutorial which is self-explanitory and there are the three modes you need to unlock but I will not spoil them for you. Overall I think it is a great game and was well worth my money.

great game w/ incredible bot mode and 2 player

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well i would like to say this game rocks from the graphics to the game play to the verses mode to the bot mode.this game is up to 4 players (in verses mode) so if you have some friends over it is lots of fun.My older brother isnt that great at the game so he just watches me play.you can never run out of amo because yuor handgun never runs out but you only have certain amout for the shot gun (which kicks) and the machine gun (which also kicks).the levels are beatable but might take 2-4 times to pass them which is good because you arent really stuck on a level for a week usually so it doesnt get boring.I find it funny when they say danm or bastards or what the hell but i wouldnt recomend it for kids under 10 because the controlls might be to hard.

The Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

WINBACK is the geatest game ever. you get to shot, kill, and concact. it... i'm almost done with the game. i've noly been playing for 1 month. i play about 8 hours a day. that is how much fun it is. buy it, rent it, or play it. it is fun if you like shoting or killing games.

sincerily,jimmy

Best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Please dont listen to the people saying this game [is not good]...It is one of the greatest PS2 titles ever. You will never get tired of multiplayer, and the single player is fun as well.

Go buy this game!

Fun Controls and a Killer Bot Mode

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 24
Date: May 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I first rented and played Winback for the Nintendo 64. Since Koei, the makers of the popular strategy series Romance of the Three Kingdoms, had never made a shooter before, I wasn't expecting much, but, though it wasn't a great game, it was fairly good. Now Koei has released Winback on the PlayStation 2, and they've even added a few things.

The graphics in this Winback have been updated from the N64 version as you might expect; they don't take advantage of what the PS2 can handle, but they do look a lot better than before. Music isn't great either, but it does fit the game's situations, and when you take damage and are near death, the music changes and becomes faster to express the urgency. The story in Winback kind of reminds me of the movie The Rock: some madman acquires the use of a powerful weapon, and you and several other special forces units are sent in to attempt a forceful recovery of the weapon before it is put to use. Depending on how fast you are and how few times the weapon strikes, you will receive one of three endings. The story could have been better if the characters were developed, but they weren't, so every time a character is killed--and they are killed a lot--you don't really care.

The one-player Story mode in Winback is pretty simple. It is divided into 31 stages, where you basically move forward by eliminating enemies. Puzzle-solving is limited to involving the player in finding the key to a locked door or destroying the source of a laser trap that blocks the way. The rather dry simplicity of the gameplay, however, is made more enjoyable by the variety of moves you can perform. Imagine yourself with your back against the wall of some building. You slide along the wall, come to its end, and carefully peek around the corner. An enemy! You remain calm and check your surroundings. From where you stand you can only see a lone crate that may be of help. Suddenly, you swing around the corner, blast a couple shots at the baddy, and make a mad dash for the cover of the crate. By now the enemy notices you and has his gun aimed in your direction. You've almost reached the crate when you hear his gun go off, but a quickly executed somersault barely saves you from the fast approaching bullets. Keeping your head down behind the crate, you wait until the firing stops. Finally, silence. The enemy must be out of ammunition and in the process of reloading. You take this advantage and come out from hiding, prepared to take down the enemy. But as soon as you're about to take your shot, you spot two enemy reinforcements coming to their partner's aid. That's when you see it! A crate filled with explosives, right in the midst of the enemies. You pump it full of lead and watch the explosion as it sends your enemies to their feet. It's moves like these that make the game come alive.

In Winback there are two battle modes to choose between: Versus Mode and Bot Mode (added from the previous N64 version). Versus is a battle that can be played by 2-4 human players, in one of nine arenas, in any of six different modes of play. Among these modes, two worth mention are Death Match and Cube Hunt. The first is standard fair for multiplayer shooters: each player's objective is simply to eliminate the other player(s). In Cube Hunt, each player must collect seven different colored cubes; taking damage means losing a cube, which the player will then have to find over again. Bot Mode is only 1 or 2 players and is played the same way as a game of Death Match, except that there can be computer-controlled characters and there are always two teams. You can play this mode by yourself against an army of bots, or you can play on a team of bots against another team of bots. Two players playing Bot Mode can play against each other with an assortment of bots on both their teams, or they can work together on the same team (with or without bots) against a team comprised solely of bots. Sadly, Bot Mode only has five arenas, but they are different from the nine you can choose from in Versus Mode, and a couple are fairly large. Also, it should be noted that there are a good deal of options to customize your battles, from adjusting the strength of weapons, to changing the difficulty of bots; you can even choose from over 20 characters.

Winback may not be a Metal Gear Solid, but for Koei's first attempt in the genre, it isn't bad. Probably the worst thing in Winback is the artificial intelligence, especially in Story mode. An enemy confrontation typically unfolds as follows: you swing out from behind a wall and draw the bad guy's attention; you then swing back behind the wall for cover and watch the enemy stupidly discharge a magazine of bullets at the spot where your head was a second ago; a real person placed in the computer's shoes would next either close in and destroy you or seek cover for himself, but the sick AI continues to stand there like a sitting duck until a couple more stolen shots around the corner have finished him off. This isn't to say the game isn't a challenge; the enemies' unnatural actions just make it seem a little silly. Still, Winback is a good game and is probably one of the best that you can get for the PS2 to date. If you already have the N64 version, this is just one to rent, but if you don't, this is a solid buy.

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