UFO Interactive's Gears of War wannabe is one of the worst games of the year.
Same could be said for the quality of audio. The voice acting is generic at best and the music fails to motivate by any means necessary. Like I said, it's like everything you'd expect in a really bad sci-fi production, but without the joy of poking fun at it. Scourge: Outbreak takes itself way too seriously.
It can't even deliver the goods in gameplay. The lackluster shooting controls are terrible, as half the time your bullets don't even make contact with the enemy – they fly right past. There are minimal rewards for when you do hit them, but they're not worth reaping. The story doesn't pick up by any means, not offering any new avenues for gameplay, so it's just a generic run-through, complete with broken cover controls and frustrating mechanics. You can't even melee properly. Really?
The single player mode has nothing to offer, and, sadly, neither does multiplayer. There was barely anyone on the servers during our playtime, and the matches are made up of mostly generic options like Capture the Flag and Team Deathmatch. Worse yet, when we did get a match going, the glitches set in even further, and we could barely complete a round without rolling our eyes and wishing we had played Gears of War instead.
Scourge: Outbreak qualifies as one of the worst games of the year. It offers nothing new to the genre, with its boring story, lackluster visuals and bad controls. If you must have multiplayer action on the cheap, go after Gears of War 2. It's like three bucks at GameStop – and you get far more quality out of that than you ever would out of this mess.
Score: 1.5 / 10
