XIII (PS2)

First Person Shooters (FPS) are a very popular genre. With the likes of Medal of Honour becoming very well known and Halo just around the corner things were never looking so good! But FPS's tend to be very similar in the style and story (Mainly World War II). For those of you not aware of what an FPS is, it is a game played from the eyes of the character that uses guns and other weapons. So this means that you can only see the gun in the characters hand. Ubisoft decided to be a bit more original and create a FPS based on a comic book, XIII (13). And to be even more original they even decided to make it look and feel like the ...  Read the complete review

XIII adds more fuel to the fire that videogames are in fact art - it's a strange, frustrating, beautiful game, that is adapted from the famed French graphic novel series of the same name. Thus, in this vein, the game employs cel-shaded visuals popularised in games such as Jet Set Radio and Zelda: The Wind Waker. The game's single player offering is fantastic - it presents nuanced gameplay and some very nice tricks that other FPS games could learn from. You play an amnesiac man who is trying to find out who he is and what is going on. Despite not being terribly original in this regard, what makes it worth playing is the rabbit hole it takes you ...  Read the complete review

XIII or Thirteen is a shooter for the Playstation 2 developed by Ubisoft The game starts with the good old amnesia storyline, you wash up on beach with no clue as to who you are or what happened, you are then said to be the man who assassinated the President! The story is actually pretty interesting as you figure out who you really are, the game ties in with the comic of the same name so if you are a fan of that you will probably be into the games storyline even more. The shooter gameplay is actually quite good though the game forces you to be sneaky a little too often and the stealth portions of this game are rather rudimentary, the AI is stupid ...  Read the complete review

Game Info Genre = FPS (First Person Shooter) Developer = UBI Soft Publisher = UBI Soft Players = 2 Player Online = Yes, Up To 6 Players Age = 12+ Memory Usage = 89KB Minimum Released = November 2003 STORY: The president of the United States, William Sheridan has just been assassinated in the same identical way that JFK got killed from up in a high window of a building with a sniper rifle. As the prime suspect hunted by cops, FBIs, CIA, and professional killers you must stay alive and try to prove your innocents, waking up on a beach with amnesia from where a bullet has left your head pounding, with the ...  Read the complete review

As every games company that ever existed attempts to have something cel-shaded in their line-up it is the now critically acclaimed publisher Ubi-Soft that come with the first cel-shaded FPS. But lets face it, when the game was announced over many months ago critics dismissed it as yet another shoddy game jumping on the cel-shaded bandwagon in a pathetic attempt to sell, I will shamefully admit I was one of those people. How wrong we were. When the game was unleashed in playable form at E3 2003 it easily stole the show, now it is available for all to buy and trust me, it is fantastic. The game is heavily storyline driven, you’ve awoken on a beach, ...  Read the complete review