I love Konami as a developer; they have made many of my favourite all-time games, like Metal Gear Solid, but that doesn't mean I'm going to just give them a free pass with regard to this FPS misfire, Coded Arms. Like so many PSP FPS games, Coded Arms falters under poor controls and dodgy design. The plot is quite complex and pleasantly so, dealing with corporate espionage along a mild sci-fi bent. You play a shady G-Man type who has to visit various locations and basically shoot anything that moves, and this is a little counter-intuitive to a plot that initially seems a lot more cerebral than that. Nevertheless, you won't care that much because you'll be so ...  Read the complete review

Coded Arms was one of the first ever shooters to come out for the PSP console and at the time was a pretty good game. But compared to some of the shooters you can buy today, it doesn't fare very well. The levels are randomly generated and get very repititive and boring. You will end up fighting endless battles against the same enemies in the same looking rooms again and again. It is set in the far future with you playing as a hacker searching for secret files worth a huge amount of money. You find these files by playing through various zones inside a simulated training program that was abandoned after the system failed. And as we all know, if you die ...  Read the complete review

The story Coded Arms is basically a combat training simulator, which went haywire and took his own life. Hackers see the game is a challenge and go for rare files, despite the fact that the death of a simulator means death in real life (think that the Matrix), and there are big cash prizes to terminate the program, which has now spread to the Earth's online infrastructure. There are hackers, who supply them with special weapons and decides to take on the unbeaten system, you get to the core and re-launch. These hackers, known as Coded Ones. You can play as Coded One. The entire game is presented in a computer program. You can take in three different regions ...  Read the complete review