 "Full Auto 2: Battlelines is Awesome!!!!!" | 2008-08-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1RPQPIOWR47HK |
| This game is very fun. The graphics don't seem that next gen to me, but they are good enough. The main thing is that's its a blast to play especially with friends. This game reminds me so much of the movie Death Race and who knows this may have been the inspiration for that movie. I would highly recommend this game for anyone who wants to break out of the regular racing game stuff like PGR4 or GT4 and are just looking for a good time and something not real serious. |
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 "Car Combat with Style" | 2008-07-14 |
| - Reviewed By rmaurer9 |
| If you like car combat, this game will fill the bill. Along with multiplayer (online and split screen) the game offers a single player career mode. Racing and battle arena are included. This is a very polished game that has not been given its due. Apparently, the first Full Auto was unpolished with bad controls which has created some negativity with the second game. Though the controls in Full Auto 2 are certainly lose (and we are talking definite arcade here), you get use to them. The graphics are excellent. If you like car combat, you will want to give this a try. |
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| "Online Gladiator is the Best" | 2008-05-29 |
| - Reviewed By johnrector |
I don't see why this game gets bad reviews. Maybe it is because the vehicles you start with suck. Once you unlock a few cars and weapons, this game really picks up. The story in the campaign mode is a little over the top, but the gameplay is great and very challenging (in a good way). You can opt to breeze right through the game and unlock a lot of stuff on your way, or you can go through and systematically beat every challenge and sub-challenge for each stage and unlock everything. Regardless, once you have a little time under your belt, go immediately to the Online Gladiator matches. This is where the game really shines. The Ranked arena is frequented by some players with some great skills, and it is fun to try to keep up (unlike some games where it is frustrating to keep getting shot Online, this one gives you a fighting chance to stay alive by the lack of spawn camping that the game inherently has due to the fast and furious gameplay, open fields, etc, in addition to the ability you have to blast the turbos and get away from your pursuers). I've enjoyed this game more than any other PS3 game I have, including (dare I say it?) CoD4, R6V, and Assain's Creed. Those games are fun, but they just don't have the lasting appeal that FA2 has (CoD4 comes close as it is an awesome game for different reasons - still, I would rather be playing FA2).
The unranked arenas also give a few more choices for gameplay that you can't get on single player or in the ranked arenas, such as Base Assault (quasi-capture the flag-esque game) and the Cat & Mouse Race (2 slow moving trucks on opposing teams race while everyone else gets the fast & tough cars called Warlords that go and try to prevent the opposing teams truck from finishing first).
After playing this game for a month or so, I actually went out and bought 3 more PS3's and 3 more copies of FA2 just so I could play against my kids (yes, my wife was quite irritated at me). On the weekends when Mom is sleeping in, we all "sneak" into the the living room where I move our other TV's in and we camp out there and blast each other for hours. The only other game that has come close to providing my kids and I this much fun was Mario Kart Double Dash for the Game Cube (NOT the Wii version - don't get me started on how they stripped out the ability to unlock on coop mode - but I digress).
Full Auto 2 has great graphics. Yes, every now and then you'll have the stray box or pipe that falls "through" you or something like that, but in all actuality, I notice stuff like that happening on most every game (including Haze, which just released). It doesn't detract from the game at all since a) it doesn't happen all that often and b) the game is moving just too darn fast for you to notice. The actually look of the graphics is quite sharp, everything is well lit (even the darker areas) so you never have a hard time seeing, the environment is quite destructible (you can blow all sorts of stuff - and it STAYS blown up, unlike the little fake bullet holes that appear and magically disappear in many FPS's). You can even use the environment to kill your opponents (like blowing up an overhead rail, causing the speeding train passing by overhead to fall, crash, and blow up on your opponents, or blowing up a tower that when it falls, causes tunnels and ramps to appear, etc). The cars are detailed, and so is the damage that appears when you get shot. In fact, the damage is customized so that machine gun damage appears different than a missle, which is different from flame damage or even the look of a general crash into a wall.
As far as gameplay physics go, many people complain about the cars feeling "floaty". This is where I see the most flak for this game come from, and this is why in my first comment on this game I assume that these people just never tried to unlock any of the upgraded cars. Sure, the starter vehicles suck, but that just motivates you to unlock the better ones. In fact, the Enforcer (the police car) is one of the first cars you unlock, and it is one that has good enough stats and durability that it can be easily used to keep up with even the last few cars that you can unlock. It handles fine, as do most of the vehicles (minus the starters and the Phanthom). Of course, none of the car physics can match up with Gran Turismo 5, but come on, this is an arcade racer/FPS. I doubt slapping guns on GT5 cars would be very fun at all due to the realism (seriously - how many realistic cars could withstand a missle shot - especially those in GT5 that don't even show the damage?). Anyway, my take on the physics is that they handle the way I'd expect them to for the most part and aren't anything to complain about at all.
As far as variety of maps go, the races have more than enough to keep any ADHD player occupied for hours. The gladiator arenas definitely have enough to keep the online play from getting stale, but I do wish there had been more gladiator maps. I really think that if this game had come out now, the developers (now out of business - thanks for pulling out on them there, Eidos) would have been able to garner a lot more attention to this game by offering the downloadable maps that the current game developers are just now really starting to get into. Who knows, if they had offered a half-dozen extra arenas at 5 or 10 bucks or something, maybe that would have been enough to keep the afloat long enough to get some more gigs? That's probably just wishful thinking on my part, but who knows?
Are there cons to this game? Well, the biggest and only real con is the lack of players Online. It can be difficult to sometime to find others on the boards, and if you aren't patient enough, you may get the feeling that you've entered a ghost town when looking through the ranked and unranked areas. Rest assured, though, there ARE regulars that play, and many times you just have to go to the ranked arenas and just camp out for about 5-10 minutes (oftentimes the regulars are in a match, which is 10 minutes long for a ranked gladiator match, which means that if you wait, all of a sudden you'll have 5 or 6 players pop up all at once as they go for another round - but you do have to camp out as when there are players going round after round, you only have about a 15 second window to catch the wave or else their next match will begin without you, and you'll have no idea that they were ever there).
All in all, Full Auto 2 is great. I hope there is a way to squeeze out a Full Auto 3, but with the developers out of business and as much unwarranted flak this game received, there is hardly a chance of Sega trying to ressurect the title. I never played Twisted Metal before, so I can only hope that the PS3 version comes out and plays as well as FA2. Until then (and most likely long thereafter), I'm going to be online playing FA2. |
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| "Fantastic" | 2008-05-18 |
| - Reviewed By quality2006 |
| Full Auto 2 is an extremely fun car combat game. There are both racing modes and "gladiator" modes. In the gladiator mode you drive around a map with the objective to gain the most kills/least deaths. The online play is great, complete with leaderboards. The skill of some of the online players is impressive. The soundtrack is great, graphics look good, the campaign mode has a good storyline, and the variety of cars and weapons is terrific. I highly recommend this game for anyone who owns a PS3. |
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| "Big Bang for your buck" | 2008-03-01 |
| - Reviewed By User: A25NAJGUVTEZ8T |
Full Auto 2 is perfect if you are looking for a game with lots of destruction. The cars explode beautifully, making you want to keep playing. There is nothing like seeing a high-end sports car ripped to shreds by your hood-mounted twin machine guns!
The Good:
- All the vehicles are wonderfully detailed
- The environments are realistically created
- Many buildings on the multiplayer maps are completely destructible, nothing like trapping your opponent in a building and sending the whole thing crashing down on top of him!
- All the maps are created with battle in mind. No places to hide.
The Bad:
- This game didn't offer as many vehicle customizations as I thought it would
- Some levels ARE difficult, but if you adjust your tactics, they can be easily beaten
This game is perfect if you just want to have a good time. |
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| "better than you might think" | 2007-08-19 |
| - Reviewed By sdim66 |
| after all the bad reviews you might not give this game a fair chance. I downloaded the demo first and thought it was horrible. I played it for 10-15 minutes and then did not touch it again for a month. Just out of curiosity and boredom I fired the demo up again a month later. I gave it a little more time this time... and I was hooked. I think the graphics are great. The physics are not real-life, but more arcade-like, and I personally think they are appropriate for the game, once you get used to them. Once you get the hang of driving, which isn't that hard, I think you will enjoy the game a lot. I'd much rather play this than Twisted metal (Black or otherwise)... this game is light years ahead of that. |
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 "Okay, I guess" | 2007-08-08 |
| - Reviewed By steelrat |
This game could have been a lot better.
Racing games where you shoot each other isn't exactly a new idea.
Basically this is a boring single player game. You play single player to figure out the abilities of the game and to unlock other cars for multiplayer.
Only one problem. Multiplayer online is horrible.
This was a rushed launch title. It would be best to forget that it ever came out in the first place. |
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| "Car destruction mayhem" | 2007-07-31 |
| - Reviewed By bixodoido |
Full Auto 2 is a part racing, part blowing stuff up game. This game puts you behind the wheel of a variety of souped up vehicles equipped with various weapons and offers a number of ways to play, ranging from races (with weapons, of course) to 'Gladiator' mode deathmatches. There's a story driven career mode (the story is pretty weak, however) with events that offer both primary and secondary goals and reward you with unlockable vehicles, weapons, and skins for your vehicles. There are also many ways to play multiplayer, both online and in head to head offline mode.
The good and bad of the game:
THE GOOD:
- Tons of stuff to blow up and break. That's one of the great features of this game. In races you can take out streetlights, vehicles, glass buildings, and lots more, and in the gladiator fights you can wreak havoc by shooting tanker trucks full of oil and knocking over stacks of huge pipes (as well as much, much more). Driving through a building might result in your vehicle breaking through the floor and tumbling to the ground, and hitting certain parts of some structures may cause an entire building to collapse.
- The deathmatches, called Gladiator matches in the game, are a blast, even against the computer AI. With so much destructible stuff lying around the multiplayer maps become an absolute warzone with bullets, missiles, and explosions all over the place. The PS3 handles all the action pretty well too.
- You can create new paths by destroying certain parts of maps.
- Head to head multiplayer is a great option for offline gaming, and something that's lacking in a lot of games these days.
- Tons of unlockables
- Each event in career mode has primary and secondary objectives, so you can pass the event without doing everything perfect and go back and try for the secondaries later when you're up to the challenge.
THE BAD:
- If you want to use better weapons in multiplayer modes you've got to unlock those weapons in career mode first. Putting yourself in a gladiator match right out of the box will have you fending off computer opponents with flame throwers, missiles, lasers--all kinds of stuff--with your machine gun and smokescreen. If it's REALLY necessary to unlock all the weapons the computer opponents in deathmatches shouldn't have them either.
- Vehicle control leaves something to be desired, especially when you're racing. It's not just that it's tough to get used to--most of the vehicles just don't respond all that well to the controls, which is a mild annoyance in a wide open Gladiator match but a serious drawback when you're racing through narrow streets.
This game was a lot of fun overall. Comparisons to the Twisted Metal franchise are not misplaced, but this is a good game in the absence of a TM title on the PS3. While the Career mode leaves something to be desired the multiplayer options more than make up for it. There's nothing groundbreaking in Full Auto 2, but it's still a lot of fun.
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| "Full Auto 2 - Great but not the Best" | 2007-05-09 |
| - Reviewed By keith15365 |
| I like this game a lot; I would have given it 5 stars but you have to play the career mode to unlock more weapons and cars for Aracade and multi-player modes. To me this knocked the game value down since I bought this game for the sole purpose to play against other opponents. So instead of playing each other immediately we are now trying to complete most of career mode to unlock more cars and weapons; to me this is a waste of my time and energy. The game is fun once you have 50% of it unlock and well worth the money; though it would be nice to start off with more than 2 weapons and 3 cars. |
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| "It's a Next Gen game, just not a good one." | 2007-04-08 |
| - Reviewed By Anonymous |
Full Auto 2 is the sequel to Full Auto which came out on the Xbox 360 on early 2005. NOw it came out on the PS3. Before you start getting exited about this game because it sounds like a Burnout with weapons, let me tell you something. THIS GAME IS NOT LIKE BURNOUT!!!! The physics, cars, environments, and enviromods are hardly related to Burnout. When you turn this game on, your first thoughts may be: It's OK, but i wouldn't buy it. The next time you play it, you may think, maybe i should buy it. It's an addictive game, because the more you play it, the more goodies you unlock. The game runs at 1080p with 7.1 Surround sound, so you can see and hear every crash, missle, bullet shot, and turbo boost in the highest production quality. The game has numerous sports, muscles, and a few exotic cars, as well as numerous SUVs. The game also supports several areas of a city, some with a few tracks, and some with only one. Each one also has at least one battle arena, where the goal is the same as a demolition derby. Weapons are plentyfull. You have a choice of machine guns, mislles,shotguns, smokescreens, a dozer plow, a lazer, a flamethrower, and even grenades. Too bad you can only put on 2 weapons at a time, and some cars, usually the faster ones, cant support all weapons.
The story tries to add a reason behind the game, but you'll only care about it by .01 percent at most.The games is pretty short, and replay value is small. Glitches are not terrible in the game, but occur from time to time. If you, like me, are looking for some PS3 games to last you until the end of the year when the great sequels come out (Mercs 2, Burnout 5, GTA5, Battlefield Bad Company), then this game is OK. Otherwise, save those 60 bucks. |
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