Most people have played or at least heard of Black. It was a shooter on Xbox and PS2 that really pushed the limits of what the hardware could do back then, and aside from being a little on the...

+ Solid shooting mechanics; + Destructible environments

Feels unfinished; Online is a waste; AI is terrible; Content is extremely lacking

Like Bulletstorm before it, Bodycount revels in the over-the-top sensation of shredding scads of enemies in violently creative ways. As a well-armed operative for a mysterious military corporation, you'll pop into Africa, Asia, and a handful of sleek, futuristic bases to extinguish civil wars and...

+ Combo system and power-ups give game a distinct feel; solid campaign with diverse states and unique boss fights

- Multiplayer is laughably lightweight and feels tacked-on; ?

Bodycount, for a long time, is being hailed as the spiritual successor to the frantic action shooter, Black. Developing an original action shooter, however, in a genre full of military shooters that gross hundreds of millions of dollars ala Call Of Duty and Battlefield amongst others is a really...

First person shooters today have a lot of heavyweight competition. Codemasters' latest entry, Bodycount , is released during a time when most gamers are waiting anxiously for the release of Gears of War 3 .

" Bodycount " had the potential to be an excellent little arcade shooter. The engine works; the team showed promise, but the end product is a bland and repetitive shooter, with a couple of memorable ideas and moments, that is also let down by truly abhorrent multiplayer matchmaking.

Parents need to know Bodycount is a very violent and bloody action game played from an immersive first-person perspective. Even the game's marketing materials talk up the arcade-like violence with phrases such as a "cinematic orgy of shooting and wanton destruction" and "mouth-watering arsenal of...

You can't blame Bodycount for trying. The long in development shooter from developer Codemasters, and the spiritual successor to cult favorite shooter Black tries very hard to be THE first person shooter game that fans of the genre have been waiting for by incorporating elements from a number of...

Bodycount could have been so much more than the generic FPS that it's turned out to be. It has its moments, but they're too few and far between in a game that's plagued with imperfections and glaring flaws.

As I said, it is a decent first person shooter but far from anything outstanding or really exciting. The flaws, like hit registering, really drew away from the game when score is dependent on accuracy, both for the player and the game.

It's probably what I was thinking as well. Something along the lines of: "Does the world really need another FPS?", followed by some mutterings under my breath about how Codies should stick to their forte of making superb racing games instead. But I digress. Bodycount .