An aweful game, worth playing for the comedy value of owning it!

User Rating: 2.4 | WinBack 2: Project Poseidon PS2
The original Winback settled into the stealth genre and sold well just prior to the release of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. That game knew what it wanted to be and that was something to entertain stealth fans until MGS2's release. Winback 2 however plays like a game that has stolen aspects of Time Crisis and Metal Gear Solid but doesn't know which ones to focus on.

The gameplay is run and gun at its most basic and the "team-based" gameplay is all lies. You play each level as each character in turn rather than commanding other characters or switching between them to use different skills. The characters themselves are all the same, the just look and sound different. They don't sound good though, the voice-acting is aweful. Visually though the character models are suprisingly impressive.

Environments, on the other hand, are as bland and generic as they come and the enemies in these environments are even further below stupid than Jeff Gerstman.

Overall this is an improvement over the original but its still ain't good. Winback 1 was the worst game ever, Winback 2 is the second worst game ever. I would have to reccommend it though, just for the comedy value!