![]() ![]() Huge Arkham Trilogy fans may also find interest in seeing where Rocksteady got started. I suggest it if the idea of fighting back an urban upheaval strikes your fancy. You can see what they took from this game and moved forward into their most famous of games–The Arkham Trilogy. ( Urban Chaos: Riot Response – Eidos) Conclusionīeing a huge fan of the Arkham games, it’s really nice to see how Rocksteady began. The levels don’t stand out as much as the violence you dish out. The different levels don’t differ too much visually–lockers, burned out walls, and broken debris everywhere. 90% of the enemies look similar, but shooting, blowing them up, and cutting them up with a cleaver is still a blast. You can’t really tell Betty apart from Anne other than their hair color, but that has no baring on your enjoyment of the game. The characters are all very similar looking. While not perfect like God of War and such, it isn’t disgusting looking like poor old Metal Gear Solid. I was a bit leery about not connecting the HDMI cable to the 32-inch flat screen, but the OG Xbox was the powerhouse of that generation. ![]() I’m playing the original Xbox version through a Pound conversion cable so it actually looks pretty good on my 45-inch flat screen television. It doesn’t look too bad for a 12 year-old game. ![]() Medics heal you and firemen get you into otherwise inaccessible places. As you progress through levels, you will meet people that can help you. Instead, you have to use the Right Thumbstick to pick which direction you need to go. The Left Thumbstick only allows you to move forward and back. Moving is a bit tricky, but it’s very easy once you get used to it. After finding the Riot Shield, the Left Trigger protects you from bullets and other obstacles. Pressing the thumbstick provides a headshot zoom. You aim with the left thumbstick and fire with the right trigger. I played Medal of Honor: Frontline recently and Urban Chaos has better controls than that Xbox 360 game. The controls are pretty tight for a first-person shooter from this generation. The story’s pretty thin, but it is nice to take back the city section by section from crazed anarchists. You can always kill them, though, which is a bit more satisfying to me. Pacifying the gang boss nets you valuable information for the game’s next levels. Once inside, you have to rescue support/civilians, kill remaining gang members, and pacify the gang boss for that raid. You begin at the embattled police station and fight your way through hoards of degenerate gang members. It’s up to you and other members of the Force to re-take it. A gang known as the Burners is destroying your city. Oddly enough, this is a first-person shooter where you take on the roll of T-Zero Enforcer, Nick Mason. As I said prior, the game was developed by Rocksteady Studios and published by Eidos Interactive. The GameCube missed out, but I’m sure Nintendo thought the story was too mature for their audience at the time. Urban Chaos: Riot Response released on for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. ![]() Little did we know, the PlayStation 2 and Xbox era would see the first game come from a company synonymous with amazing licensed Batman games–Rocksteady Studios. There once was a time when Batman and all licensed games were pretty much trash.
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