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Too complex for its own good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When a fighting game is rated "M" for "Mature," chances are that it's nothing short of being two things and two things only: gory and senseless. Tragically, this rule applies in full to the 1998 PlayStation stinker BioF.R.E.A.K.S., a title by Midway Home Entertainment, Inc., that one can easily refer to as "cyberpunk gang warfare on a disc." Set in the not-so-distant future, this 32-bit dud missile features eight cybernetic warriors literally destroying each other in various multi-tiered localities across Neo-Amerika, utilizing jetpacks, "shields," and every weapon in their respective arsenals for the sole purpose of survival. Sadly, the gameplay parallels such insensible action all too well. True, you can fight up close or from a distance and even float around the battlefield in an attempt to engage the enemy in a war of attrition, but in the end, the only principle that matters is this: Defeat is only a heartbeat away.

On one hand, initiating melee combat by executing a complex, Tekken-style combo does you no good in that your rival can simply interrupt your savage series of blows with a well-timed projectile and leave you wide-open for his or her next strike. Similarly, putting some space between you and your opponent so you could blast them to kingdom come can't save you, either, for he or she can simply nullify your barrage of bullets and bombs by activating his or her "shield," which is nothing more than a hideous, semi-metallic outline of poorly blended gray polygons that envelop the fighter and protect him or her from everything you fire at him or her. Your adversary can subsequently follow this up by dashing toward you and literally appear right in your face in a matter of milliseconds, then land his or her own blend of blows and hence render you helpless as you desperately activate your own "shield" by pressing the D-Pad away from your attacker simultaneously with the Fire button, but to no avail. Even flying does you no good; you can hover around the war zone like a hummingbird from the Netherworld and either close in on or evade your opponent, firing burst after righteous burst as you go along, but still your target blows you out of the sky, forcing you to resort to your final tactic: standing still and surrendering as the mechanical menace slices your arms and head off in bloody ecstasy. Throw in the fact that you can't unlock any extras in this game (not even the two bosses) and can only select from eight warriors (as opposed to the nine-plus characters that you can chose from in other, more enjoyable titles), and you'll soon find yourself cursing the day you so much as heard of BioF.R.E.A.K.S., much less played it.

In short, the next time you see a game rated "M" for "Mature," keep in mind that the words "mindless" and "moronic" also begin with that letter and remember Midway's BioF.R.E.A.K.S.--a game that pretends to be everything that, in reality, it is not.

great game with ok graphics

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I thought that this game was one of the best games of the century because it has great characters amazing sound and clear crisp graphics but i would also like to add the there are a limited range of characters and their specials are kinda weak but overall this was a great game.

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