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13.6.2007

It's an obvious thing to say, but 'The Shield: The Game' is really for the TV show fans only. Its the kind of game that no one else would be interested in, but if you love the show you'll get a bit of a kick out of it.The Shield game fits in between seasons 3 and 4, story-wise with Lem having left the Strike Team and Shane preparing to leave also. So it seems strange that the entire plot is to do with "saving the team" by landing a major bust to impress the brass. While the voice acting is just as you'd expect (and thank god they used the real actors, aside from CCH Pounder I think) the cutscenes try to recreate the show's style. However,the reactionary camera style which works so well on the show becomes a vomit-inducing affair with pointless zooms and a wobbly camera.To be fair, the game's designers seem know the show and what elements should appear in a game adaptation. The opening level (featuring the season 3 finale) is done with title cards intercutting with the action, followed by the loud guitar title music. Also, the "barn" (the police department in the Shield) has been mapped exactly like in the show. Character models range from pretty good (Mackey) to pretty bad (Aceveda) and sometimes look a little bit eerie.The game's graphics also range from good to bad, with some fantastic lighting effects (at one point, a sleazy film can be seen on the face of Mackey if he stands in front of the projector). The environments are appropriately run-down, but get a little repetitive after a while.Thankfully, they took a bit of extra care to make Mackey look good and he does. His squat figure has a number of moves such as spinting, rolling, kicking doors down and takedowns. The problem is its such a procedure to do these moves. The button for punching is the same as to take cover and you find yourself hitting the walls during a gunfight, resulting in a quick death. Interrogating suspects is fun for a while, but we've seen the same thing done better with games like The Godfather.In fact, a lot of elements feel like they've been done better before which makes me say again that this is for Shield fans only. Casual gamers will certainly get agitated by the constant loading screens (honestly, you just have to walk from one room to another sometimes before a cutscene starts). Also, the background dialogue is limited and characters will stand there are repeat the same line over and over again until you shoot them in anger!Speaking of shooting folks, the gunfights can be quite good at times - depending if Vic's alone or not. When facing a gang of one-niner hoods, the last thing you need to see is Shane run into the gunfire like an idiot. I knew Shane was reckless, but even he's not that stupid!!! There are stealth section which are based on luck rather than skill and if you have the chance to shoot your way through, you'd be better off doing so. Some suspects will drop their guns after sufficient shots which gives the player some freedom as to how they deal with the criminals.This leads me to the game's main selling point; the 'heat' meter. Depending on what course of action you take, the heat on Mackey will rise or lower and if it reaches the top, then its game over. So you can recover stolen drugs or cash and pocket it in the 'retirement fund' or hand it into the evidence locker which I think is a nice touch. If you shoot an unarmed suspect, you can plant a gun on them in true Vic Mackey-style.The Shield is a quality TV show that has a cult following. The game really didn't need to be made (or taken of the shelf as it was). But if you like the show, then its worth a go (maybe they could just include a copy with the next DVD set!).
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3.6.2007

This videogame of The Shield follows the usual format of all lazy film/TV videogame adaptations: a third person action game. However, as is the fashion these days, the unique ideas of the source material are grafted onto the game in an attempt to make fans feel like they are actually in the universe of the source, rather than just playing a standard third person shooter with the same characters. This time around, with reference to The Shield, these unique features include a heat meter, which fills up when Vic shoots bad guys but is lowered when he arrests them after forcing a surrender from shooting at them (yes, pretty nonsensical).Another unique feature is the interrogation sequences where suspects/informants are grabbed and then bashed into household objects by similar bashing of buttons on the game. This might be interesting were it not for the fact that there is no penalty for a wrong button press, reducing the whole sequence into the random and fast hammering of buttons.Plot-wise, the game follows the same kind of realm as the TV show, with players, as Vic, brutally harming criminals and busting drug rings while pocketing loot for the old retirement fund. It's all a bit silly and feels like it's making a mockery of the careful pacing of the TV show (which manages to keep suspense by never veering too far in the direction of surreality, something which the game fails to moderate). There are also stealth sections and a rather tedious minigame for finding hidden weapons which cannot be repeated if failed, as though the weapons have now disappeared after a single attempt to find them (again, nonsensical).Overall, this is a good chuckle for a few hours (not the first few though so try to find someone well into the game whose save file you can play from) but it's not got the kind of depth or inventiveness that the videogame medium can provide. Cheap (or, in this case, not so cheap) licensed titles such as this devalue the artistic integrity of the games industry as a whole. It's a sad situation, because I can see that there are intelligent and talented developers working in the industry on games such as this and trying as hard as they can to infuse them with interesting ideas, but they are held back by the constraints of the license and demands of the publisher to produce something similar to bestselling game X, where such a game is usually years old.
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21.7.2007

Love the show and really enjoyed the 24 game so was expecting something simillar here. The game looks good on paper as the actors all supply their voices but the game play is awfull.levels go by so quicklythat you cant build up any interest in the plot. and there is little or no action to get into and when there is it all gets too messy to be any good.Save your money buy the boxsets instead roll on the release of season 5 in the uk.

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