Come within a foot or two of a barrier, and a paintballer will be entombed in some invisible force field for a spaz-tastic moment, allowing any enemies around a free shot.įor a group of professionals, your teammates are pretty dense, walking out into the open, running in circles, and shooting while stuck behind an obstacle. It certainly doesn't help that the collision detection in Greg Hastings' DS offering resembles an alien from another dimension's idea of normal. The main problem with Greg Hastings is that everything except your player's arm and gun is a pixelated, unintelligible blur, and thus, dodging incoming fire is rather difficult. Unfortunately, the relative wealth of customization options simply does not mesh with the actual gameplay's broken feel. If he catches you, though, hello team disqualification. There's also the slightly shady option to cheat when you're hit – tap A quickly after getting splatted to have a chance at wiping the paint away before the ref sees you. To accompany you into games, you can build a team from over 40 real-life players to pick and choose from. An RPG-like character development system is also included, allowing you to increase stats like accuracy and stamina with points awarded after winning matches. Before beginning the game, you can choose your player and, after accumulating cash, buy new paintball jerseys, masks, and guns. Career mode hovers in some insane middle ground between maddeningly unplayable and respectably deep. This hilarious spectacle goes on for several minutes.įinally, we've moved on to the main menu. Heavily compressed and pixelated, the player can almost make out a convoy of dark SUVs entering "the ghetto." While Cypress Hill's own B-Real raps in the background, paintball "stars" leap out of the trucks (accompanied by caricature freeze-frames of themselves) and pose menacingly. The game opens with a ridiculous movie clip. Nintendo must know something about portable FPSes that no one else does, because the other three aren't fit to be spoken of in the same breath with Hunters. What can Nintendo do to mess this up? Allow more trash like Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball MAX'D to grace its platform.Īt the time of this writing, there are only four first-person shooters on the DS: Greg Hastings, Nintendo's own Metroid Prime Hunters, Goldeneye Rogue Agent, and Peter Jackson's King Kong. With the release of the DS Lite, Nintendo seems poised to widen the gap between itself and Sony's PSP, the one rival that had any shot at usurping its handheld throne. Nintendo's been on something of a "let's do something weird and experimental to get people buzzing" kick in recent years the announcement of a portable gaming system with two screens was regarded as a cheap gimmick before it caught momentum, and the Big N's high-concept, next-gen Wii offering had tongues wagging from the moment it was conceived.ĭespite a somewhat sluggish start, the DS has carved out a niche for itself as the preferred on-the-go system for puzzle gamers and fans of less traditional fare (like courtroom simulators, magical surgery games, and aquatic music generators).
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