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SEGA’s new-found love of westernised
titles doesn’t end with their Xbox360 release schedule – Full
Auto 2: Battlelines appears as a PlayStation2 exclusive touted
to be available at launch.
The E3 Preview Code was limited to an
arena-based Deathmatch in which four-players honed their destructive
skills through a selection of six playable vehicles. Weapons are now
independently selectable – removing one of the Xbox360’s biggest
foibles – but in the demo were limited to those available in the
first title. Slight modifications have been made mainly to the first
titles best weapon: the Machine Gun, which now has an adjustable
rate of fire dependant on the precision press of the PlayStation3’s
enhanced Analogue L2 Trigger. Rapid fire will cause the weapon to
overheat quicker, whilst Mines and Rockets make a return to the fray
with seemingly little modification.
A minor graphical improvement over
the title’s predecessor and an enhanced Physics Engine was really
all that was notable in a title seemingly over-confident in the
 praise the series has received thus far, although an enhanced
Single-Player and totally destructible environments are promised.
Whether these minor improvements will pull fans away from the first
Full Auto is debateable – as most likely the updates will
appear as downloadable packages on the Xbox360 Marketplace – however
as a taste of something different at the launch of the PlayStation3,
Full Auto 2: Battlelines is likely to have much the same
impact as its predecessor. |
