Bionic Commando (PS3)

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Genre	Action Adventure
Platform	Playstation 3
Release Date	21/05/2009
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Bionic Commando is a swinging good time.  Outstanding graphics and a great soundtrack make this a truly exciting game.  It doesn’t take long and you will be swinging better than spider-man.  Gamers have waited a long time since the last Bionic Commando game, but the wait has been worth it.

All we need now is Nathan’s have brother, Steve Austin, to make a video game and we are set.

Bionic Commando (PS3) Product Information

Arm yourself! The 20-year wait is over as Bionic Commando swings back into action on PLAYSTATION 3!

Bionic Commando swings back into action as the first true sequel to the 1988 original with the return of bionically enhanced Nathan "R.A.D." Spencer.

Five years after his heroic defeat of the Imperials, he has been betrayed, imprisoned, and sentenced to death under a conspiracy. On the very day of Spencer's execution, terrorists detonate an experimental weapon in Ascension City, unleashing an earthquake that turns the city to rubble and wipes out its population.

With the city in the control of a terrorist force whose goal remains unclear, the FSA have no option but to rely on a Bionic Commando. Bionic Commando transposes the much loved swing-and-shoot action of the original onto a stunning 3D environment of towering buildings, suspended roadways and monorails, deep canyons and sheer rock faces, which are traversed using swinging, scaling, climbing and wall-walking techniques. 

Bionic Commando will include a fully-fledged multiplayer mode which will feature wire mechanics to swing from platform to platform while pursuing your opponents. Players will need to utilise all the skills honed in single player to show the true power of a Bionic Commando as the game will feature group matchmaking and in-depth stat tracking.
• Use the bionic arm to swing between towering skyscrapers at breathtaking speed, hook onto distant objects, zip up on hanging girders and choose your own route through the game
• Gameplay moves through horizontal and vertical environments - a 3D game that truly uses all three dimensions
• Full multiplayer mode with rich stat-tracking to check whether you’re a true commando or a lowly private.

Bionic Commando (PS3) Review

For the uninitiated, Bionic Commando is a direct sequel to the NES game released more than 20 years ago. It’s not necessary to have played the original game as you're given a pretty good idea of what has transpired. You are Nathan Spencer, an ageing dude with a metal arm and an unfortunate hairdo (attention every ageing white man in the world - Axl Rose included - cornrows do not look good on you). At the start of the game, Spencer is in prison and awaiting execution after he was betrayed by the government agency he worked for, the FSA. During a mission, Spencer had failed to eliminate other rogue 'bionics' (people with robotic enhancements) and some innocent people died and Spencer was then made the scapegoat. The situation led to a public backlash against everyone with bionic enhancements, forcing the government to ban all bionic modifications.

And this is really what Bionic Commando is all about – swinging, killing and generally flying around the place. The bionic arm is a pretty useful piece of kit; it can attach to most surfaces, allowing you to swing from place-to-place and to hoist yourself up onto overpass signs, building tops and other hard to reach areas. The arm also serves as a weapon, allowing you to attach to enemies and either pull yourself towards them to double kick them into oblivion, or to ‘kite’ them up in the air where you can throw them, or shoot them while they're suspended in the sky. Additionally, the arm also allows you to launch rocks, cars and even dead enemies at your foes. Further into the game, you’ll also be granted an ‘adrenalin’ move, which allows you to twirl and swing the grapple part of your arm, cutting down multiple enemies at once.

The enjoyment you’ll get from the game depends on how easily you master the controls. As you’d expect with such an array of abilities, the game uses most of the buttons on the controller, and players will often have to use two buttons at once. The majority of the time the controls feel responsive and clean, and although there is a lot to learn, the abilities are introduced gradually and you don’t have to learn them all if you don’t want to. However, the game offers 'challenges' throughout the single-player campaign, such as killing a certain number of enemies with a particular weapon while you are swinging through the air, giving you bonuses such as quicker reload times and armour boosts.

Bionic Commando is the surprise of the year so far. Forget the story and you’ll have a blast. If there is a sequel, and as this is a Capcom game that’s a real possibility, we hope it can iron out some of the level design issues and give us even larger environments to enjoy. Then we can take this baby out of the backyard and have some real fun. Vrooom!

SOURCE PALGN