The good news though, is that when things do start to heat up, you'll feel as though you've been hooked up to an intravenous drip of adrenaline, strapped into your seat and had your hand superglued to your mouse, treed only when the end sequence has faded to a memory. And the bad news is that things get worse before they get better for this 3D action/strategy shooter from Game World GSC (the developers of the excellent Cossacks).
So not the most auspicious of starts then. Bit more swearing for good measure, feeble attempt to save dying comrade by stupidly cradling his head, followed by more random firing. Soldier falls over theatrically as bullets scythe through his back, more panicked random firing into undergrowth, more swearing. Cut to unseen enemy tracking two terrified soldiers from the tops of trees with thermal imaging. Uninfected soldiers fire randomly into undergrowth without actually hitting anything. The platoon is attacked by alien parasites.
When it comes to being unoriginal, Codename Outbreak's opening sequence has to be up there with the best of them.ĭense forest. So how does this endeavour end, I hear you ask? Are you sitting comfortably? No? Well stop bloody well slouching then. Which can only mean one of two things.ġ) They've realised the futility of war, started a naturist's commune and discovered the joys of brotherly love, casting away their cammo gear and tossing their weapons into the undergrowth, preferring to spend their days singing songs about trees while running around in their underpants and having casual sex with badgers. A unit of highly trained marines is sent to investigate. It's 2012 and an unidentified object has crashed in a forest in Montana.
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