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Driven by a hatred of crime bordering on insanity, Frank Castle
became The Punisher, a lone vigilante whose mission goes far
beyond revenge. Talking on the city's high-powered crime lords,
he wreaks havoc on the corrupt with methods normally reserved
for those on the wrong side of the law. Ripped from the pages
of the darkest stories in the Marvel Comics' universe - where
justice ends, Punishment begins...
On
the surface The Punisher is a pretty run-of-the-mill
third person shooter. In fact the best way to describe it
is a cross between Max Payne and The
Suffering.
You
play the part of Frank Castle who, after seeing his family
brutally killed by the mob, sets off on a one man crusade
to dish out his own justice - which usually means killing
every bad guy in sight.
The
game starts with you running around killing enemies, picking
up their weapons and killing more bad guys... etc... However,
there is a little variation to this in the fact that you don't
have to kill the bad guys just be shooting them. You can grab
them and use them as human shields so that their partners
can't off you as quickly. You can also interrogate them in
order to find out more information about their plans (the
crooks that have important info have a Punisher style
skull floating above their heads, so you have to make sure
not to accidentally shoot them).
When
you want to interrogate your victim you are given a choice
of ways to scare them into spilling what they know. The main
choices include choke, punch, face smash and gun point. The
idea is that you must put enough fear into your victim - not
enough and they keep quiet, too much and you'll kill them.
Let's take the example of gun point... Here you put a gun
to your victim's head. You can balance the pressure on the
trigger my moving the analogue stick to but the right amount
of pressure on the trigger. If you can keep you capture scared
for long enough he'll tell all... but if you go over the top
you'll accidentally pull the trigger... oops!
Also,
dotted around the levels are special interrogation points.
These allow you to interrogate a victim using a piece of nearby
equipment. Examples include stuffing them in a furnace in
a crematorium (and then turning the flames on and off. Turn
them too high and your victim will burn before he tells you
anything); hanging them off a building and shaking them; and
dangling them above a tank full of electric eels.
There
are also special kill areas. These include pushing people
out of windows; throwing them in coffins and then throwing
a grenade in after them; and feeding them to the sharks. However
be warned. As with the special interrogation spots, these
kill areas can only be used once.
I
loved the way that staking out your territory can pay off
handsomely. Instead of going in guns blazing, you can occasionally
find machinery that will drop heavy items (eg cars) onto your
enemies - saving you the bother of wasting your ammo.
You
can also enter slaughter mode, where everything slows down
and you throw knives at your enemies - all though to be honest
you shouldn't actually need to use this. I actually forgot
it was there for the most part.
While
The Punisher may not be the most original game on the
market, it is damn addictive and will certainly hold your
attention for quite some time.
Pete
Boomer
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