Clusterfuck
This clusterfuck of a game is set in the waning years of the Cold War as you play a Navy Seal name Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko (is an actual person) who in all intensive ways is a poor man’s Rambo. As Rambo was somewhat course and little rough but still likable “Demo Dick” is simply a dick. I’m not a prudish person (hell, I swear several times in this review) but when a hardened Navy Seal sounds like a 13 year old playing Halo, it doesn’t help the game but rather comes off like a bunch of frat boys made Rambo.
Richard "Demo Dick" Marcinko is in tasked with saving the freed world as he must stop the North Koreans and then the Soviets from being able to create an operational ballistic missile shield .Through your "adventure" you cross the Korean-Soviet Border and fight through a grayish concrete North Korea port city, through the grayish port itself, and even through a grayish Soviet missile control center underneath a grayish mansion. As stated all the environments look similar with the same color of gray with small things making it different from the last. Of course you blast through the game so fast you don’t even notice with the game lasting about 4-6 hours depending on difficulty.
Adding to the cluster-fuck is the game-play itself, only with the environment the enemies have little to no difference between each other with only one or two things making them appear to be out of a cookie cutter (some have helmets… others berets) as well as their intelligence with them often just standing there firing as you sit behind cover 5ft away like that scene from Naked Gun makes them poor foes indeed. But you have a somewhat variety of ways to kill them, ranging from your standard AK-74 and 9mm pistol, to the Dragnov and other Cold War weapons, but most fire the same so it comes off as half-assed in the terms of weapons though the close combat kills with a knife are satisfying with plenty of brutality and blood to get your blood pumping, but only to have to simmer down again with the next half dozen cookie cutter commies.
In conclusion, you know that person who has a very lose understanding on how to use swear words, the one who thinks that “fuck” is best said frequently and about anything, the kind of person who slaps swears together like they were Legos, well this game would be that person, all crass and no class.
The Good
· Bloody..?
The Bad
· Game-play
· Liberal use of "fuck"
The Ugly
· "Variety" of Weapons
