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Destruction

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After watching all of the trailers online I couldn't wait for the release. I pre ordered the game and picked it up today. I went home for lunch and had a BLAST. I can't wait to get home this evening and play it some more, but from the first few missions it's as solid as they said it would be.

Revolutionary

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 28, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I got this game opening day myself, and it's not dissapointing. Practicly everything is destructable. Action is non-stop, and Like the other guy said "you can't hang out in one place for too long". Try it on the third level near the end and your done for. The game is long too. I've gotton to the 4th level and it says 5% done. Anyway hopefully you can get the silver weapons, and the BigFuc*ingGun (BFG). In the end this blows Halo clean away, and for $40 it's a bargin.

Brilliance

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The creators of the best-selling Burnout series brings you Black, an awesome game that I put with Halo and Half-Life (I think those are great games). The graphics are really awesome! The sound is actually really good as well as the physics. Cars explode, balconies fall on your enemies by shooting them, you get the idea. Almost everything is destructible. Back to the controls- it is similar to Halo, Half-Life and Doom. The sound of the guns/sound effects are cool. The only thing I wish you can do is drive or jump. Now I'll simplify things:

Pros
-Excellent graphics
-Excellent sound
-Super strong weapons
-Very fun

Cons
-Enemies are a bit too strong (Takes about 2 or more shotguns shots to kill one.
-You're a too to weak and need many health packs.

Perplexing
-You can't jump?
-Can't drive?
-So... why fight terrorists again?

Oh, and unlock now and get the BFG! (Big F**cking Gun)
Hope this was helpful.

A great first person shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I have only had this game for a day now and love it. I can't pull myself away from it. And, at $40 it is a great deal. Not too much strategy invloved, just kill the bad guys. Only two complaints; one, you can't save within a mission, this means I have to play mission all the way through else I have wasted my time and two it is a one person game, I personally prefer playing videogames that allow me to play with a friend.

Insufficient Savepoints

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Would it have killed EA Games to program a few savepoints into this thing? I mean, seriously. How hard is it to let you save your progress within a level? Is it their idea of fun to have to endlessly repeat the same things over and over? Even on Easy difficulty, you find yourself dying moments from the end of a level and having to go so far back you want to hurl your Xbox at the wall. Get with it, EA. You've ruined an otherwise enjoyable game.

so little checkpoints(WHO CARES)

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: May 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

so this game has very few checkpoints and you cant save the game, you must complete the level in order to save it. SO, who cares. the outstanding graphics and sound makes up for most, especially the gameplay. I shoot and reload sometimes just to hear the amazing sound effects, very realistic. This is probibly equal to COD2(call of duty 2) both fun and exciting. Also in COD2 if you haven't noticed, you dont get to save your gameplay you must beat the level, and there are only a few more checkpoints then in BLACK. so there of equal matters. this game is loads of fun.

for the previous reviewer, there are plenty of weapons- you just have to find them :}

if you enjoy playing halo-1,2 and COD-1,2 get this, or at least rent it.

BLACK

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

picked up this game yesterday from my local gamestop. I was very apprehensive making the purchase knowing from early reviews that the game was very short and the review on gamespot made me very worried that the game would not be worth a purchase. Never the less i really wanted this game. So i went home and popped black into my x-box. As the menu screen appeared i couldn't help but sigh when i saw no multiplayer option. So i started single player on normal difficulty. So this is my take on Black.
The opening cutscene, which by the way is a live action cutscene, shows the main character of the game Keller in chains and being grilled by some gov. guy. The plot in Black isn't very involving and the live action cutscenes aren't impressive in the least. So my first impression of the game wasn't an expecially good one. The first thing you'll notice about BLACK as how great the graphics are. The lighting effects and explosions are spectacular. Steadily the game picked up and got better with each level. I wasn't very impressed with the first couple of levels in black. Your stuck using the AK-47 for the first two levels and though there was a good amount to blow up the environments aren't as destructible as i would have hoped. But around the third level is were Black really gets good. You start getting to use the different weapons in the game and i found the majority of them to be very cool. The missions in Black are simple basically you go around shooting terrorists and collecting info. There are a lot of side objectives like finding secret documents and such but none of it's actually required. The action is intense and a hell of a lot of fun. This is another one of Black's strong points. The firefights are loud and intense. The a.i isn't terrible but they don't tend to do much beyond shooting at you and hiding behind combustible objects. The game makes up for some of the a.i's shortcoming by throwing **** load of enemies at you so you'll always have your hands full. There are also friendly soldiers that
occasionally accompany you. They shoot at the enemy a lot but

unfortunately they don't hit very much. Basically all they are good for as drawing enemy fire. But that won't matter because you should have enough firepower to handle everything yourself because you get a generous amount of ammo from fallen enemies and it is very likely that there will never be a point in the game were your running low on bullets. Enemies also will drop plenty of health kits to keep you going. The weapons in the game look good, sound good, and most of the games 13 weapons are a blast to use. But there are some weapons you simply won't bother to use because you can stick with your basic machine gun and be better off. Some of the explosive weapons in the game really kick ***! The level designs are solid and generally there are ****load of things to blow up. You'll be sending a lot of terrorists flying in every direction thanks to the conveniently placed explosives and rag-doll physics are top notch. Some environments are more destructible than others and some are not as destructible as you would like. Some of the better level designs allow for Matrix Style destruction. The music in the game is actually pretty good but believe or not their is a custom-soundtrack feature in the the x-box versian of black. I was very surprised and delighted that i could listen to my own music in game. As far as i know there never has been a FPS with custom soundtracks,

unfortunately most fps's have multiplayer which this game lacks. This blacks largest flaw besides the short campaign. I don't understand how the **** this game can not be multiplayer. Criterion claimed they were going balls out on single player, which granted kicks *** and offers ok replay value. But a six hour campaign that's really going all out! We can only hope that their are future installments of black that include multiplayer and hopefully a longer campaign. Though it isn't likely i hope that maybe jsut maybe Criterion could release an expension to black on the current systems that includes multiplayer and an extended campaign. It is a longshot but there is always hope.

Overall is a great FPS that is lot of fun while it lasts. I wouldn't recomend buying this game obviosly because of the short length but i don't regret purchasing BLACK because it is lot fun time and time again but i know it won't last forever. If you do anything you must rent BLACK and experiance the hollywood stlye action.
I would give BLACK solid B.

A lotta fun, but...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A lack of savepoints within missions ultimately makes this one of the most frustating games I've ever played. The checkpoints you are given are VERY few are far between, and if you die be prepared to spend another 45 minutes getting back where you were. At this point, I'm tired of leaving my machine on all day and night with a Post-It note attached that says "Please do not turn off Xbox or switch games", because I can't save the freakin' thing. I'm finished with this one.

Don't waste your time or money on this game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is fairly good for being an original Xbox game but if you play it on your Xbox 360 it will freeze so many times that you will probably stop playing it like how I stopped. My advice is just to stick with the new games that come out and forget about the past "Platinum Hits."

Good but not great...a rental or wait for the price drop

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If Black had been released before games like Halo, then it would be a great game. However, the Halos of this world have raised the bar for FPS games and Black doesn't really match up. That's not to say it's a poor effort or not worth playing. Many have mentioned the great sound and graphics and some levels are pretty difficult, especially the final one, which is a good thing. On the down side, the AI is just silly, e.g. two guys standing next to each other, you kill one and the other guy just stands there like nothing's happened. When an enemy does hide behind something, they appear/disappear like they're on rails and enemies take way too many hits to the body before they die. You can't perform some basic moves like jump and you can't save your game when you like. Some check points take ages to get to, so in the end I just paused the game and left my Xbox on all the time. Before each level there's a scene from an interrogation. Some of these go on a bit, aren't very interesting or relevant and you can't skip past them. Very annoying. Each level is a separate mission too, so making sure you've got good weapons and plenty of ammo just before the end of a mission usually won't help you because you start the next mission with completely different equipment! Very very annoying! I thought the end was a bit lame too and so opens the way to a Black 2. Overall, Black is OK to good, but nothing awe inspiring. I think there are better games out there for $40 (Half-Life2 is now only $20), so I'd say rent this to check it out first or wait for the price to drop.

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