Full multiplayer capabilities have been built in as well and, if you end up buying this game, this is where you're likely to end up - provided you can find anyone on the Internet to play. It adds an extra dimension to the game, which is good because the standard deathmatch is very boring and the AI is sub- Quake (ie not very good at all). As well as the standard deathmatch, ArenaBlast offers other games, which involve collecting balls and throwing them through holes to score points (BallBlast), or the race (SpeedBlast) where you have to charge around a narrow track and run through all the flags before your opponents. Finish high enough at your first PointBlast and the Plaza opens up offering you a run at the other arenas, up to Championship level. This leads to highly annoying episodes where you shoot someone just to watch some fat kid called Wes run up and snatch the points from under your nose. 'Erase' a brat and a points total appears in its place, which you need to pick up to claim the 'kill'.
The beauty of this is that you're encouraged to shoot them with weapons that vary from the single shot to the wild-shot (like the Flak Canon in UT), the guided missile or the nasty bouncing beach ball. This takes place in a Day-Glo arena that's been designed to resemble one of those nightmarish fun parks, complete with huge slide and the obligatory little brats running around and making too much noise. When you've proved you can control your character, you're taken through your first deathmatch, except it's not called a deathmatch because that might scare younger viewers - try PointBlast instead. The basic FPS skills that we all know off by heart. Hasbro, having seen that first-person shooters are the most popular genre on the PC at the moment, has decided to take the toy and merge it with the Unreal engine to come up with the first ever shooting game aimed at kids.īefore you start shooting, you're led through a simple training course that teaches you how to look around with the mouse and move with the keyboard.
In this virtual-reality driven world, this is the logical progression.
They're toy guns and they're really big in America right about now, although we always thought that American kids bypassed toys like this and graduated straight to the real McCoy. They're designed to teach kids that shooting people is wrong. Have you ever heard of Nerf guns? Made from brightly coloured plastic, they fire varying numbers of foam pellets at high velocity and they're designed to teach kids that shooting people can be fun.
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