All in all, Fade to Black isn't a worthy look back at an early PSone title but rather a phenomenally dreary – though necessary – stepping stone that's best forgotten. If it's history lessons you want, here's hoping Sony hurries up and releases some of the third-person action genre's subsequent triumphs on the PSP Store (Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid spring to mind).
Audio/Visual - 5
Gameplay - 3
Value - 5
Innovation - 4
Overall -
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In the second part of our rewind feature we look at the evolution of the genre without a name, that is the type of game that has no official name and how the industry has adopted these game principles over time.
Like an enormous bag of anvils sliding down a hill, the PlayStation Store is starting to gather momentum - well, at least as far as retro downloads are concerned. After a sporadic few months of drip-drip PSone offerings, things seem to be settling into something resembling a regular service, with another trio of worthy games showing their adorable faces this week, all at GBP 3.49.
Only in Europe. US Downloads have stalled some. Dark Sniper is waiting and hoping to purchase Fade To Black on the US store. He is still searching for methods to download the UK version.
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Me too sniper.
Loved that game. But I cant complain, Europe gets shafted more often than US. That's gotta change someday, we live in a boundless world now.
Now that the PS Store has a lot more content, it needs to be re designed. The current design was made for a store with a lot less content.
Hopefully something we will see this side of the summer! Come on Sony!
Has anybody heard if the US store will get resident evil 1 and 2 the japan store had them for a while.
