Endgame

GunCon owners have one more reason to celebrate with Empire Interactive?s arcade-style shooter, Endgame.

Though light-gun vets will find it lacking, Endgame has enough going for it to warrant a go, as long as you already own a GunCon or GunCon 2. It offers players a conspiratorial narrative that strings together the various locales and a fun trio of retro-pulp science-fiction mini-games called Mighty Joe Jupiter. But Endgame itself lacks the gameplay variety and manic energy of other light-gun games, such as House of the Dead and Time Crisis II. As a result, it feels flat and grows a bit monotonous by the third stage.

The graphics engine does produce some keen environmental damage and animations for location-specific bullet injuries, and although the overall visuals are polished, the colors seem bland and subdued. Remember the crazy camerawork that made the motorboat sequence in Time Crisis II so exhilarating? Well, there?s nothing quite that frantic in Endgame since during shootouts the camera always stays still. The game throws ample amounts of enemies at you but feels sluggish overall.

Don?t get the Sifu wrong, though?while not as deep or fine-tuned as it could have been, Endgame is quite fun in a low-budget action movie kind of way.

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