Breed is a game that could have been awesome, its major flaw is that it's garbage.

User Rating: 2 | Breed PC
Breed is a game that did something that every FPS should learn from. Few games have accomplished this including the Joint Operations/Delta Force games, and Battlefield 1942: Desert Combat Mod/Galactic Conquest Mod but it is one of the most awesome things I've had the pleasure to experience. That thing is...the ability to walk around inside a transport vehicle while its moving. Breed lets you walk around inside drop ships and man the guns as it flies over enemies, Joint Ops let you do the same in Black Hawks and even drive vehicles up into Chinooks, Desert Combat made the C130 the ultimate grief machine by letting players slam around others like they were in the Vomit Comet, and Galactic Conquest let you walk around inside the AT-AT at Hoth and even open the side door and shoot out. Breed I salute you for doing something cool.

Now to the bad. The game is absolute garbage. The production values are mediocre, animations are stiff, weapons lack recoil, vehicles feel pointless, and squad AI is dead on arrival. You end up running through massive maps all by yourself shooting brain dead enemies with weapons that aren't fun to use completing seemingly mindless objectives against the droid army from Star Wars: Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. Voice acting is awful, the writing is awful, character models are awful. The graphics aren't the worst I've seen even for a game from 2004 but still seem dated. Multiplayer is non-existant and the game is snore-worthy.

The thing is though, Breed could have been amazing, even a full on 10. All the pieces are there, large maps, epic war, vehicles, controllable squad, guns, bad guys to shoot with guns, it could have been awesome. So what went wrong? All the pieces are there but the pieces aren't fully constructed and they aren't even really put together. Sure there's a controllable squad but it doesn't work and isn't even necessary to succeed. Yes there vehicles but they're bland to use and once again don't really have a purpose. Weapons are bland, enemies are blander. Breed is a game that I wish would have been made by a large well funded studio, the product feels rushed, half-made, and in desperate need of several patches and a couple gallons of polish.