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There are many inspirations for First-Person
Shooters. Obviously shooting aliens and winning World War II are
clearly the most common, but mutant killing, assassination and robot
 driving
still hold sway the hearts of many-a-gamer. Policing First-Person
Shooters, championed by the S.W.A.T. series amongst others,
seem to take a back seat in comparison to the more popular themes.
This being said, policing is the premise of Urban Chaos: Riot
Response, although it bears little resemblance to the tactical
non-lethal approach of most police games.
The plot seems to be that gangs have taken of the
city and you play as the tough, no-nonsense cop determined to stop
them. Clearly reading the criminals their rights is not on the cards
in Urban Chaos: Riot Response since the E3 demo started the
player with that First-Person Shooter favourite, the Mini-Gun. The
demo took place in a subway, at first on a train and secondly at the
crash site of the aforementioned train. The player’s first priority
was to protect various innocents through killing every criminal that
came their way. Urban Chaos: Riot Response features some nice
set-pieces: namely the shooting of enemies on a train running
parallel to the players whilst taking out boarding foes. This kept
the action interesting despite it’s difficultly and hopefully paves
the way for some fairly unoriginal, but ultimately quite-fun
gameplay.
Urban Chaos: Riot Response
did not really seem to attempt any revolutionary changes to the
genre but had some nice
ideas. The most prominent of these was the logging of headshots etc.
with the goal of getting twenty for some sort of bonus, the demo
wasn’t long enough to realistically achieve this goal, but it has
potential for some sort of achievement based Reward System.
Graphically Urban Chaos: Riot Response was
on par with what we’ve come to expect from the PlayStation2, there
were a lot of enemies and action on-screen without slow-down and the
graphics were clear enough to allow the player to have a good idea
what was going on. Urban Chaos: Riot Response isn’t a
transformation of the First-Person Shooter genre, but it’s a fun
game that fans of this game-type should enjoy. |
