Greg Hastings stole my money and gave me this.

User Rating: 3 | Greg Hastings Paintball 2 PS3
As a fellow paintball player, I, of course, love paintball. It's a nice, active sport that features fun and strategy. Then, I saw a game called NPPL Paintball 2009, which I never picked up because I then saw another game I wanted. I never went back to Gamestop to get it, since I'm obsessed with downloadable games, and now, OnLive. But then, I saw on the PSN store, Greg Hastings Paintball 2, and it actually looked like a serious title, and bought it for about 20 bucks, pretty much the rest of my store credit, and played it.
God what a mistake I made...
Well to start, the graphics are poor and have no clear texture. All character models look like life-size dolls. All courses, except for Woodsball, look the same, a course with a bunch of colorful pillars to move about, covered with paint, of course. You can easily tell that the backgrounds has barely any work put into it, as there are about 3 buildings and 7 trees in the different stages.
Voice acting is HORRENDOUS. Greg Hastings himself sounds like he's 12! All male characters have the same exact lines, "Where are they." and "Don't do that again." All females just say ouch. The only thing they did right was all the 5 years olds playing sound just like the ones from real FPS games. Wow, my 20 bucks is slowly decreasing in value.
Gameplay, well my eyes instantly glazed over when I saw the first person perspective, it looks awful, and as if he's holding the gun with one hand. When Greg thrust me into a match, I didn't even know what to do! After awhile, I got the hand of it, but after awhile, I wish I didn't. You start every match by telling your team what to do, defend, hard left, balanced, hard right, or hard straight (I laughed too). Every game made is the same, CTF. They try to MIX IT UP with 2 team CTF of 1 CTF, which are basically the same thing. The controls are horrible, crouch with X, Switch views with Square, Reload with O, and jump with Triangle. You can buy new equipment between rounds, like ammo belts or guns, but there's no point to it, they're all the same guns. Pump-actions are exactly the same as normal guns. Hey do automatic guns sound cool? Well get the spray and pray thought out because to do this yo have to RAPIDLY PRESS R2 AND R1!!!! This was such a bad idea, I'm not even joking. There are three different arenas, Speedball, Woodsball, and the last I didn't get to. There are about a MILLION matches for each one, each taking about 30 minutes, making for that 8 hours of gameplay. Trading players is a chore and I don't see the point, Rookies are free and people with some skill are $100,000. You earn new gear and players to trade after each match, and they're all useless.
You can also cheat in here, by wiping paint off you. Look, this like Blackjack, it's pure, pre-determined, luck. It works about 5% of the time and if you don't decide in the second they give you, the ref, wherever he is, calls you out.
There is no music besides the awful garage band music for the menu and the crowd's screams.
Ah, it's been fun sending Greg Hastings Paintball to Hell, and now I fell much better.


Goods-Decent strategy play

Bads-Everything else, literally.