Now I am not big fan of first person shooters. The are way to common and they all seem to be the same nothing really new or creative except for some really good exceptions (Bioshock Goldeneye Metroid Prime Series even though thats not really a FPS). However this game sets itself apart by a mile no questions asked. This game is one of the most fun first person shooters I have ever played but its also the most creative and it looks good to.
The levels in this game are a lot of fun. When you not only have a shoot out at a disco club but you can also stop and take some time to scratch some records on the turn tables and mess with the instruments and the microphone. The story for this game is a lot of fun as you once again take control of Sargent Cortez as you are sent back in time to stop the Time Splitter army. You start your adventure on a war torn future Earth and have to battle your way through legions of Time Splitters to get to the base so you can meet you with Sarge and Ayna (a girls name that I really like) and they send you back in time to Scotland.
Scotland is a fun level where you have to fight a tank using your guns and explosives it is a hard fight but its fun especially when you use your awesome uplink hand gadget thing. This Item is awesome you can use it to pick up and throw objects from a distance its fun to play around with and comes in handy with this battle because there are plenty of explosives around for you to throw.
The next level is also a lot of fun when you meet Austen Powers like character named Harry Tipper the smooth spy with the disco look to him. one of my favorite parts in this level is when to sneak into the enemy base you have to put on the uniforms of the henchmen and Harry gets stuck in a female uniform which leads to a very awkward moment when one of the male guards start hitting on him.
My favorite level however is the Mansion of Madness string of levels where you meet Miss Jo Beth Casey (Who is a rather attractive). She is very much a punk girl with her short skirt, Teddy bear backpack, and shirt that says SLUT right on it. (its fun shooting her she reacts in a comical manner). After a hilarious cut scene which involves her kicking you in the nuts and taking your picture thinking you are a zombie. Even though thats a great cut scene the one at the end of these levels are the best. Once you enter the mansion you must fight of ghosts using a flame thrower yes ghost vs flame thrower then Graboids (ok not really but big man eating worms in the ground) vs Flame Thrower and little evil demon bugs vs flame thrower. After a while you will be trapped in a room with a deer head suddenly zombies start falling from the floor above. If that wasn't strange enough then once they are dead the deer head comes to life showing it also has a hooked handed body that and it will charge at you trying to kill you. Now that is an awesome fight its really hard to you have to keep running and firing at the monster with your shot gun. After you beat that you will be separated from Jo Beth who will get scared and lock herself in a room. While I am on this subject the rooms are so cool looking with chairs that rock themselves the words red rum written all over in blood and also the heaps of bloody sheets with knives sticking out of them and the crepy music playing. So back to the action. You eventually find your self in the kitchens where you face an un-dead butcher and evil carved up cow carcasses you will eventually make it to a well where you will face Princess. Princess is an adorable huggable giant monster of bone and exposed muscle and an eye for a belly button. Now obviously the eye is the main weak spot but you will do some damage to her by shooting the muscle body. After the fight Jo Beth will meet up with you again and you will head into the depths of the mansion. This leads to another cut scene where they are standing at the opening to the basement which you get to by going down a ladder. Growling noises are heard and Jo Beth say you first to this Cortez looks at her skirt and says ok (what a perv haha). Now not much to report until you give yourself the Ghost Gun. This allows you to see the invisible kind of ghosts and shoot them with something that looks like what they have in Ghostbusters. The level ends in another fight with Princess and escaping the mansion that is about to blow up after a you try to access Dr. Crows computer (He is the evil bad guy person) once you get out you get one of the funniest cut scenes in the game. You see the young Jacob Crow upset about loosing all of his research when the mansion is destroyed when Old Man Crow (Jacob from the Future) appears to give young Crow the Time Device. Young Crow thinks the older him is his Grandpa and this joke lasts until old Crow gives him the device. Now i can't do this cut scene justice in text so I will try and find a video of it and post it as a comment.
Now there are some more levels but that one is my favorite. A couple levels later you will be introduced to a robot called R-110 who has no personality what so ever until he downloads a virus that gives him the personality of a gun crazy vigilante style person. Nothing really big happens till you get to the end and have to face Crow himself who has changed a little bit but you will have to play it to find out. Now the Time Travel aspect of the game allows for some funny worm hole moments wich cause Cortez to talk to himself. However unlike when I talk to myself Cortez is talking to another Cortez and its often funny.
The story made is a lot of fun but the creativity is clearly seen in the multi-player mode. The amount of characters and how different and how creative they are is amazing. With your strait forward character like Cortez and friends from the story mode you also get zombies, monkeys (A ninja, cyborg, zombie, and normal monkeys) Circus freaks including clowns bears and four armed women. There are people from the west including an skeleton sherif and also just some real odd balls. Handy Man (My favorite) is a severed hand with matches for arms and legs a watch and a drawn on smiley face. The freaks include swarm of top hat wearing fish a flying snow man squid the gingerbread man (who kind of quotes bender) and a dancing dinosaur. Now this one has gone on a very long time so I am going to wrap it up. This game is freaking great and even though the controls are a little out dated with its still a ton of fun and I can't stop loving this game also this was the first M rated game I ever bought and I love it.
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