Armor is divided among the various body locations: head, chest, and whatnot.

TheyвЂ™ve included a few innovative touches, some more entertaining than others. The net effect of the stunted AI and the limited number of characters is that game feels a whole lot more like the original Duke Nukem FPS (which was what, seven years ago?) than a modern game. DonвЂ™t take it personally, however, as if you end up with two wingmen, theyвЂ™ll continually shoot each other in the back, the whole time saying вЂњWhat are you doing?вЂќ and вЂњIвЂ™m on your side!вЂќ as if them shooting each other in the back were somehow your fault. The occasional marine you gain as a wingman is no brighter, and woe to you if you happen to get between the marine and a target, because theyвЂ™ll plug you in the back with friendly fire until their clip runs dry. And their AI seems to have just two modes: rush you, or stand at range and fire at you. Now that I think of it, there might be a lot less than ten. ThereвЂ™s the punk chick, the martial arts guy, the fat biker, the muscle bound guy, the psycho, and um, uh. And where X:E seemed to have a new enemy around just about every corner, Gore (Should I bother to abbreviate that G?) has maybe ten different enemies. Not in such dramatically short supply that I found myself running out all the time, but if youвЂ™re going to put me in a game where the primary goal is to blast just about anything that moves, IвЂ™m going to want to hold down the trigger a whole lot. Gore is a first person shooter, but itвЂ™s more a first person shooter in the arcade vein much like Serious Sam (which I didnвЂ™t play a whole lot) or Xcom: Enforcer (which I reviewed), only when the pedal hits the metal it comes up lacking on a number of fronts. My word of advice to game companies is that if youвЂ™re going to come up with a plotline so dorky that it makes me feel stupid just writing about it, donвЂ™t even bother. You, as a soldier yanked out of the VR program in the middle of the mob assault on your headquarters, must stop them at all costs. The mob makes a desperate grab for the program, and the army makes just as desperate a grab to stop them. A virtual reality training program (вЂthe meat machineвЂ™) has been developed that allows newbies to become veterans in a short time, and the technology looks as thought it will lead to a mob defeat at last.

Anyhoo, the war between the army and the mob for global domination has been going on for some time now, and the army needs soldiers, veteran soldiers.

The mob? Is this some future incarnation of our Soprano, protection racket, leg breaking, IвЂ™ll-make-you-an-offer-you-canвЂ™t-refuse mob? The game doesnвЂ™t make that especially clear. So, journey with me to the late 21st century, when the greatest threat to peace on earth and good will towards all men is apparently the mob. ThereвЂ™s supposedly a game review in here somewhere, and IвЂ™ll find it eventually. IвЂ™m already on the schedule to give both GTA3 and Warcraft 3 (Holy smokes! ItвЂ™s like the summer of the sequels!) that special Rorschach treatment, so Gore, for me at any rate, is sort of that lull between the storms the light dinner salad with basil vinaigrette dressing before the pot roast the episode of Mr. I like to think of it as a pallet cleanser, like reading a Grisham novel after plowing through The Brothers Karamazov or War and Peace.

вЂњMore Gore, less filling.вЂќДЄfter the weighty affairs of reviewing Jedi Knight 2 and Soldier of Fortune 2, I was kind of looking forward to a lighter title that would be a little less involved from a reviewing standpoint.

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