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The
Con is a 3D fighting game for the Sony
PlayStation Portable (PSP). There were four characters to choose
from in the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) build - although
there will be many more to play in the final cut. They have a
variety of different fighting styles, each with they’re own
advantages and disadvantages. For example the wrestler is one of the
strongest available to play, but she was also slower, whereas the
martial artist was much quicker but not as powerful.
The
only mode available was a quick fight in a two player; however you
could play up to four players with a Wi-Fi connection from the looks
of things. This mode was a simple one-on-one fight, but is suggested
to feature a tag-team type of fight, although there has been no
conformation on this.
When
actually fighting it is quite difficult to pull of combos as it
seems to be very timed, you have to really concentrate on what your
character is doing all the time. You cannot block as such, just
leaning backwards, forwards, left and right in the style of boxing
games.
 You
can also play a fake move or ‘con’ where you go to throw a punch
but don’t. I see that when getting into the game it may provide
some use but playing it for the first time I found it more of a
hindrance as it left you very open and didn’t seem to really do
much. It was also quite slow so I ended up not really bothering and
just got on with it, like I say once you’d got used to the game I
could see it being useful but initially it’s not something to
bother with.
This
game was enjoyable to play (even though I did get interrupted by a
guy, which totally lost me the match!) but I wouldn’t consider it
to be anything you hadn’t played before, it didn’t have a
particular aspect which made it stand out in the E3 demonstration
version, it would be worth a go if you had money burning a hole in
your pocket and had nothing else to buy.
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