XIII (PS2) Reviews

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 ...  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, ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

When i found this game for £10 in GAME one day, I thought I got myself a great deal and a bargain game here. How wrong was I when i first played it. What I found the game was the most crap storyline and the most awful gameplay ever found. The story was OK but after a while it got repetitive into what you have to do, and at ...  Read the complete review

Hi, this review is for the PC version of XIII, but DooYoo does not have it, so it is actually in the PS2 section. XIII is a game that my friend first told me about, and has been one of my faves ever since. It is a very unique game, due to the fact that it is the game of a French comic strip of the same name (this is why ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Good - Advantages: Perfect Cartoon graphics, Good gameplay, 27 levels. Good voice acting. - Disadvantages: A Bit Repetitive