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Here you play with colored balls (which can also happen
in real life if shot in a sensitive area...;-)). You can play one tournament
season or enter directly into the action. If one selects the season,
then one enters first a team name, afterwards buys arms from the standard
pistol up to sniper rifles (also available). One can buy also new color
balls, as well as CO2 cartridges, laser sights and camouflage suits
likewise. Weapons, ammunition and other things are distributed to the
individual team members. One can also improve his abilities (if one
wants and one has the necessary money also). The first level leads the
player into an underground parking lot. The opponents are not at all
intelligent (which applies naturally also to your team members) and
the paintballs fall a little heavily (so the physics don't seem accurate)
to get the hang of it easily. The balls have (also depending upon your
weapon) only a limited range. They often splat against the ground or
a wall (depending upon which is closer) and it takes awhile to get used
to them especially at the beginning. One has different game settings
you can change: the number of opponents (always a majority), the weapon
(marker), number of paintballs and the available CO2 gas (serves to
fire the balls). Also an airport, storage hall and office buildings
emerge as levels. The game engine behaves clearly below average, as
does the animations. After a level ends (caused by either your own team
or all opponents are hit) a statistics menu appears in which one also
read off and see how much money one has earned in awards. This is invested
into further weapons, munitions, equipment to be spread amongst your
team members. If one completes one season, you may register yourself
into a highscore list. Extreme Paintbrall 2 is clearly not up to par
in graphics with other current games but I do not have anything against
games of this non-violent kind (even if I have the firm conviction that
with over 100 FPS games played to the end, still no humans have I killed).
But why must a paintball game be so dull? Parents who want to protect
their kids from games which are bloody and violent may buy this game
instead, but should not be surprised if the child comes to them after
1 hour and requires a new game, because that's how long this game takes
to play to the end). |
