Men in black game review

They repeat far too often, making us wonder if the graphics were put together in a day using old Commodore 64 games. Heck, even the humble C64 had better use of colors.

As far as in-game graphics go, only the slick animation of the game's main character is worthy of redemption. MIB's graphical highlights come in the form of the animated intros and cutscenes that pepper this cart. The intro scene is particularly good, although it would have been nice if these visual niceties didn't come at the expense of actual gameplay. Your mosquito gun seems a lot weaker than it did in the movie, and even if it wasn't, you're never given enough time to react to attack.

This sloppy game design also lets your energy bar be sapped by a never-ending stream of aliens that will continue to pop out of previously cleared areas. MIB: Alien Crisis is an on-rails third-person shooter that is boring to play and ugly to look at. The musty dialogue fails to reproduce any of the charm of the movie franchise, and you can see everything the game has to offer in the span of an afternoon. This creaky relic of the past retails for full price in the present, making it one of the most shamelessly exploitative games in recent memory.

You play as a disgraced archaeologist turned art thief turned man in black, Agent P, who joins the agency after stealing an alien artifact for the villain, the improbably named Emilio Chauncy. Agent P's sardonic attitude is clearly modeled after Agent J played by Will Smith in the movies , but his attempts at witty irreverence fall flat.

The by-the-book female agent you pair up with is a bland foil for jokes about authority and increasingly flirtatious banter, but the hackneyed writing utterly fails to capture the humorous juxtaposition of nonchalance in the face of the bizarre that serves the movies so well.

With the hope of humor dashed, you are left to rely on spectacle and gameplay. Alas, Alien Crisis is an unattractive game that would have looked dated years ago. Homely character models waggle their mouth holes during cutscenes, and the barren backgrounds offer precious little distraction.

Action sequences are a visual mess of bright, blurry projectiles and explosions, and your clumsy-looking alien enemies are covered in a milky sheen. There's nary an echo of the slick visual style of the movies, and so you are left with the gameplay. As in most light-gun shooters, you progress automatically to the next point in the level when you defeat all the enemies at your current point.

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Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 0 out of 2. Share this? With hidden surveillance and stealthy guards on the prowl, players must ambush confidential alien intelligence and In Men In Black: Alien Crisis, players take on the role as Peter Delacoeur, a MIB Agent in training, assigned to unearth enemy aliens who are planning to destroy planet Earth.

With hidden surveillance and stealthy guards on the prowl, players must ambush confidential alien intelligence and stop all alien attacks. Men In Black: Alien Crisis brings exciting, realistic MIB Agent movements as players shoot, and dodge their way through action-packed levels to escape fierce alien assaults.

Additionally, all platforms feature two-player split-screen gameplay and four-person "hot-seat" competitive action for awesome friends and family involvement. Buy on. Play Sound. Please enter your birth date to watch this video:.

January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Enter. Critic Reviews. Score distribution:. Positive: 0 out of 3. Mixed: 0 out of 3. Negative: 3 out of 3. Men in Black: Alien Crisis does exactly everything wrong. The story, the graphics, the sound, the gameplay — everything is crap. It's another good example how a licensed game should not be.

All this publication's reviews Read full review. Spectacularly miserable licensed fare - a tie-in game that recalls the bad old days when a movie title was leased out to some mom-and-pop developer in the middle of Siberia and put together with the help of a broken woollen loom and old chopsticks.