World War Zero (PS2)

World War Zero is a military game for the Playstation II based on the premise that the world remained at war as World War One had never ended. So you take over, fifty years into the fighting, to try and defeat the enemy single-handedly. It's certainly an interesting plot line! The aim is to get from the trenches through to fighting in local towns and in buildings. You start with just a normal gun to fight with, before working through the game to get bigger and more powerful weapons which you can use. The game features quite a large number of weapons such as guns, grenades, rifles and many others, all of which are enough to keep an interest in the ...  Read the complete review

One has to wonder if developers Rebellion are patiently lying in wait for the very end of the PlayStation 2 generation as we know it, so that when the eleventh hour does eventually arrive, they'll be ready to leap to the rescue with some much-needed new material - they seem to have been a bit quiet of late. Okay, it's not an especially likely theory I know, but it is nevertheless a tactic that served them well in the latter days of the original PlayStation. A slew of releases in 2002 such as Largo Winch; Delta Force and Rainbow Six: Lone Wolf may have proved a bit of mixed bag quality-wise, but their efforts at that late stage to provide the console with some exclusive ...  Read the complete review