IGN: The Shoot Review

There is a place for games like The Shoot, and it will appeal to a very specific audience of casual players, but for everyone else, it's hardly worth the price of admission. If you happen to find it in the bargain bin and are looking for some easy Trophies, you might want to give it a shot, but otherwise pass.

Presentation - 5.0
Graphics - 7.0
Sound - 6.0
Gameplay - 7.0
Lasting Appeal - 4.0
Overall -

[Quagmire]

Time Crisis it is, then.

[ABizzel1]

I played it and it was good for what it is, but I don't think anyone was expecting this to be a killer app.

[Knushwood Butt]

Link's Crossbow Training has better gameplay than this, apparently:

http://wii.ign.com/articles...

[ABizzel1]

Link's CB was $20

The Shoot is $40.

[Tommykrem]

Yeah, Time Crisis: Razing Storm looks to be a more complete package in more than one way. And it has a cheezy story, so I'm pretty much sold on that one. But I still had some hope for the shoot.

[gamerzBEreal17]

you know everybody is saying there waiting for a good game with PSmove when the best games are the ones patched (heavy rain tiger woods 2011 MAG RE5 etc) so why not play those? most of u have them already and since they are kinda old and if u dont have them u can get most of them cheap so why not play them now instead of getting on rail shooters and games full of mini games? (sportschampions)

[Ares84PS3]

Or just remaster the old ones. That would have been cool.

[MachinaMaw]

Agreed, package House of the Dead I - IV and I'm sold.

[callahan09]

Sony doesn't make House of the Dead. Sega does. If anybody's going to do it it would have to be Sega (and I hope they do!). Time Crisis is Namco, just to throw that out there. Sony never really had a shooter franchise of their own like this, but with the PS Move being a viable controller for such types of games, they wanted to bring a game like that out, and even if a lot of people aren't going to consider it a great game it seems, I think it's great that they made a game of this genre to go with their new controller. I will have to try out the demo for this. It looks like a lot of fun and I love this kind of game.

[Gambit07]

Sorry, but on-rail shooters should stay at the arcades.

[Miraak82]

its been a long time since I've seen an arcade around

[Gambit07]

Movie theaters have them now.

[Bass_fisherman]

That must be in your "america"cause i dont see that here

[raztad]

I liked the demo and I think IGN reviews are plain bad most of the time.

[despair]

if you read the review he makes some valid points, its going to appeal to a limited audience and so it got a rating to that effect, I think its a good review and while I don't like many of IGNs reviews this was seems good, sometimes harder reviews will force developers to make better games, at least that's my hope.

[TheBlackSmoke]

Yea but for this type of genre what more can you expect? It's an attempt at an on-rails light gun shooter and the end result is an on-rails light gun shooter.

Marking it down because it might not be to your taste is stupid. If you cant be bothered to research a game before you buy it that's on you not the game.

[despair]

true but its not just the limited scope of the game, its the lack of content and atmosphere in the game, just look at this compared to Time Crisis, I would pick up time crisis in a heartbeat but not the shoot. The game genre might be similar or the same but the execution is completely different.

[blackburn5]

Suprise, suprise. Look whose giving The Shoot a lower score then everyone else. IGN. The same IGN that gave Tumble a 3.5 when it was a perfectly functional game. It's just as I suspected. I agree with raztad. IGN has had the lamest and unreasonable reviews for a long time now. If they say a game is bad it usually is the opposite and vice versa. I never listen to any reviews from IGN, G4 or Kotaku, good or bad. Would rather Joystiq any day.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Lol, 3.5 for Tumble?

IGN is a joke.

Most reviews have 7, 8 and few 9 for Tumble.

[va_bank]

They Wii-d all over my PS3, so now I'm expecting MANY years of shovelware, just like Nintendo consoles enjoyed to date.

I bought 3(!) console games this year, one being for PSP. If next year doesn't get better I might lose whatever's left of my interest in gaming.

[N4Great]

buy some prozac.

it's the golden age of the gaming history, but not everyone can play and enjoy all the good things.