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Secret Service
Publisher: Activision Value
Developer: Cauldron
Genre: First Person Shooter
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Platforms: Playstation 2, Xbox 360, PC
ESRB: T - Teen
Reviewer: Eric
With quality franchises like Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, and Call of Duty, you
would think Activision wouldn’t put their name on any ordinary game. It turns
out Activision feels they can whore their name around the gaming industry and
people will pick up any game with their logo. Secret Service is one of those
games that should be buried in a wasteland.
I am not sure if I really played Secret Service or not. To think a game this bad
would come out at a time like this. The gaming industry is breaking all sorts of
records and a slew of top rated games have been coming out weekly since late
October 2008. Secret Service sort of came out of no where and I can see why,
this game is the devil!
The story is interesting. The President was almost assassinated and not too many
people seem to care. Our Vice President is a complete idiot and the military
can’t seem to help out. Thanks to a former agent he is going to get to the
bottom of things and find out why there is a price on the President’s head.
Yeah I know the game sounds almost like real life (in ways). Thankfully for us
we can visit Washington D.C. and random buildings in Secret Service. The
graphics do a fine job sucking so you may want to pull up Google to see how the
Lincoln Memorial should really look.
Not in a million years did I think a game this bad would come out. The enemy AI
can shoot you wherever you want, even through walls and barrels. If you try to
do the same thing the game secretly laughs at you. To make matters worse the
enemies have the ability to damage you (don’t know how) when they are running
away. Everything in this game is on your side, but I guess you are trained for
this.
For a budget title I don’t see why people should have to pay the real asking
price. The gameplay is similar to Call of Duty 4, but all of the good aspects
were ripped out to make room for crappiness. You are going to repeat the same
few areas in a stage over and over again because of the poor programming. The
save spots in the game don’t help either so bite the bullet now.
The audio in this game is God awful. Sound effects are headache inducing and the
music sounds like it may have been ripped off from a PSOne game. It is a
horrible sight; you are going to wish you were deaf after you play 20 minutes of
this game.
The icing on the cake has to be the lake of multiplayer. Did the developers
thing we wouldn’t want to play this game online? I can’t even play with a
friend? What year did they make this game, 1991? If you offer enough gameplay
for less than 6 hours you better add in some other features.
Final Verdict
Secret Service is a great example of how a game shouldn’t be. Activision
should have known better when they slapped their name on this game. I can’t find
anything good to say about this game. If you really want to play something bad
then this is your game. This might be a modern Superman 64.
Rating
1 out of 10
Secret Service Trailer
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