So believe it または not, I don’t go out of my way to look for bad games. Unless there’s some weird クリスマス event, I never look at a PS2 game and think, “This looks like a fucking piece of shit. I wanna play that”. No, I usually want to give the games I talk about on here the benefit of the doubt and 表示する them some sort of respect. Be it something that pulls me in または something that intrigues me. Like I didn’t buy Marc Ecko’s Getting Up with the intent of hating it. I bought it because it looked like a fun game and I like the urban setting. It only happened to be a pile of trash. But today’s game is a game that I have no excuses for other than I saw the タイトル and I knew right from there this wasn’t going to be a good game. It costed me two dollars and has a very unappealing box art, complete with font ripped straight from the Godfather タイトル and with review scores ranging from, “This game is bad” to “This game is fucking bad!” So I’m not exactly excited. Ladies and gentlemen, Trigger Man.



So Trigger Man was made によって Point of View Inc. Some sites say it was によって WNT, whatever that is, but while the box that I have and the website MobyGames says that the game was made によって WNT, the Wikipedia page says it was によって Point of View. And since I can find nothing about WNT aside from a 最近 サッカー match that is completely unrelated to the company, I’m just gonna go out on a whim and say that Point of View worked on this game. So Point of View was a studio that made very few games, none of which were really good, like Spawn: Armaggeddon, The サソリ, スコーピオン King game, and so on. The company was privately owned and was made up of people from other studios like Interplay and Troika Games, studios that made the original Fallout games, Vampire: The Masquerade, and other, better games. In 2009, Point of View would go on to make Damnation, promoted as this big action game that was such a piece of shit, that not only did it kill Point of View, but it took Blue Omega Entertainment down with it, another mediocre studio. But hey, the publisher, Codemasters, at least survived, and has an exclusivity deal at the time of this article. With Electronic Arts… Guess there are some fates worse than death. But that’s just the developer. What I want to talk about is the publisher. Crave Entertainment published this game, at least in America. I have a love-hate relationship with Crave. They can 公開する some pretty good games, like Evergrace, which I did come around to after my initial review. I do think that game deserves it’s own review. They also published Galerians, a unique little PS1 horror game. And Jade Cocoon. That’s an RPG that doesn’t get enough attention. But that’s as far as recognizable または debatably good games go. After that, it’s licensed games または shovelware bowling and pool games. Crave is like a modern sort of LJN, in a way. If あなた needed some stank 尻, お尻 DS または PS2 game, あなた can count on Crave. Naturally, they were never destined to survive and went out of business in 2012. So yeah, Crave is definitely not a mark of quality, unless it’s on Jade Cocoon. So a game with a defunct developer and North American publisher. Boy, I’m excited. Now obviously, Trigger Man wasn’t solely responsible for the demise of those companies, but I really, really doubt it helped them.
So the game starts with this really bland looking タイトル screen. Just the games タイトル with some 銃 in the background and this weird trip hop beat complete with record scratching. Even for a white boy who likes a good beat, this is pretty bland stuff in comparison. It’s like something out of a bad movie from the 90s. Which, I think that’s exactly what we’re getting. It’s only gonna get worse from here. The game starts with this cutscene, or, my mistake, it has moving character モデル in an in-game cutscene, but it pauses to 表示する a box of dialogue that takes up like fifty percent of the screen. Like this is not giving me the best first impressions. It’s a full text box with a literal paragraph of dialogue. Whatever, あなた are the Trigger Man, yes, that’s his name, and someone is slandering the name of the Coladangelo Family after the death of someone from the Montagano Family. Your job is to convince them あなた weren’t killers によって robbing their casino. This game is, uh… not exactly going to win me over with its writing. I don’t mean to be a negative nancy right off the bat, but the game is giving me so much bad vibes and I haven’t even played it yet. But oh man, when we do get into the gameplay, it is not a pretty sight. So the game is in a constantly aiming point of view. あなた always have your gun out and are always ready to fire. Like I thought my controller was busted, but no, that's just the way it's supposed to be. But あなた are at the center of the bottom of the screen at all times, so it’s really, really awkward. Okay, now to be fair, this game came out a few months before Resident Evil 4 was released and perfected the third person shooting stance forever. But Max Payne came out a few years before this game did and that game was amazing. Hell, a game set in a crime drama world involving the mafia and あなた play as a gruff man who is a skilled shooter? Sound familiar to me. Like being in this aim in this position just makes everything awkward. And it doesn’t help that the speed for your gun is so slow. It moves in such a slow manner that aiming just feels wrong, and によって the time あなた land a cursor on an enemy, you’ve already ロスト half your health. But the enemies take like a million shots to kill them. I counted. For these first level enemies, the first enemies あなた fight, in a shot to the chest, it takes nine bullets. Now if あなた can get to them before they see you, it's an instant kill. But hey, sometimes they’ll die in one hit from a headshot. Sometimes. Not like it’s that challenging または them to get hit anyway. They will stand in one spot every time. They will not chase you. It’s a miracle for them if they can even run to another corner. あなた just gotta inch your way to the corner and start shooting. Sometimes あなた can get them before they get you, other times, they’ll at least take a part of あなた with them. Once あなた got them, あなた just gotta unload your nine bullets into them. They will get stun locked and cannot move. And before あなた know it, you're all done. Oh, but that’s just the first room. This game will 表示する あなた the roughness at first. But it doesn’t take long to peel back the skin to reveal the real vileness this game has.
As soon as あなた enter the 秒 room, guards start to maneuver around the building more, moving past your slow 尻, お尻 aim, and they all come at you. They do not give あなた a chance. But あなた won’t know the first time because they are hidden in the dark. Yeah, this game is surprisingly hard to see in. Like casinos should be really bright and flashy, but this place just looks dead and empty. But anyway, if あなた came in here without bullets, あなた can’t go back. Before, if あなた wanted to get your ammo back, あなた had to painstakingly go back to the start (Don’t worry, the enemies will wait for you), pick up your ammo, all thirty of them, run back to the fight and continue. But with this room having a checkpoint and no ammo until あなた kill these five guys, if あなた have no ammo, あなた better hope あなた can kill them with your ナイフ before they get you. And with this amount of ammo being spent, I realized that, no, this game demands that あなた shoot enemies in the head. And then it throws enemies on a 秒 floor with fucking assault rifles. You're telling me that I am going to have a slow moving character with an even slower aim with enemies that straf just as fast as I can 移動する my crossheir. And now you’re telling me I need to have pinpoint accuracy? Why the fuck would あなた put this in your game?! It’s been a while since I got this frustrated in the first ten 分 of the game. And HowLongToBeat.com says this game is like three hours. Oh dear god, kill me. So after enduring that trial, I manage to face a boss enemy. あなた can tell he’s a oss enemy because he’s got a ピンク health bar instead of the regular one. Also because he doesn’t get stun locked like the other enemies. But his AI is still dumb and あなた can still shoot him passed cover. And によって some grace of god, he drops the shotgun. あなた can never fuck up a shotgun, that is the golden rule. Even Kane and Lynch 2 made the shotgun the best weapon in the game and that game was a mess. And the shotgun in Trigger Man is… eh. It’s okay. A lot better than the peashooter of a pistol I’ve had so far. So we low up the ボールト, 金庫, ヴォールト and take out the guards inside of the vault… what? And then take the diamonds. But just because this game wants to get on my nerves even more, we gotta go all the way back to the start to leave. And not only that, it's a stealth section. Yeah, we can gun down security guards who were probably just doing their job, but shooting a police officer is too much. We gotta sneak around them. And every time あなた lose, and あなた will, あなた gotta watch the cutscene again. And even when あなた go to the spot that the game itself tells あなた is a good spot, it’s not. あなた will only screw yourself if あなた go up there because they patrol that spot. The game actively lies to あなた to screw あなた over. Whether that's true または not… I hate this game, so I’m gonna slander it all I want. Thanks to a guide from Game Marathon Runner, which I feel I’ll be coming back to again and again, I was able to realize I need to sneak around from the pool 表, テーブル on the opposite end, then then make my escape. And once I do that, I beat the level…. People, this was just level one. This was just the first twenty minutes.
次 level starts with a sniper section. Yep, もっと見る precision aiming and yep, あなた guessed it, if あなた die, あなた gotta watch the long tracking cutscene all over again. Now the game says to avoid being seen, and while あなた won’t fail automatically if あなた get caught, they will send in two guys with body armor and assault rifles. And while they did get me twice, I was able to pick off everyone in a slow, tedious attempt to get headshots, but they were called in at the last 分 because I ran out of ammo and was lucky enough to be at a spot where they couldn’t hit me but I could headshot them, bypass their armor, and kill them. I swear, this game can either work with あなた または against あなた and it’s never consistent. After getting through some easy enemies, we meet the Don and get to fight him and his goons. With ammo outside and free health refill for good measure, all I did was hide behind the small corner and take potshots at his head poking out from cover. Even when some goons came in to help when his health was at half, I still beat him. Clearly that wasn’t what I was supposed to do because those goons were supposed to make things challenging, but since I never even set foot in the room, they were just taken off によって my weak 尻, お尻 pistol. あなた give me a shitty gun, I refuse to play によって the games rules. But hey, we get his AK on the way out of the building and it ain’t too bad a gun. Also his granddaughter is there, for some reason. We just didn’t see her walk in and now she’s in charge, I guess. I’m really trying to follow the plot, but I feel like this game doesn’t want me to.
Level three is much the same. Run around a building and shoot enemies. As あなた can see, this game's shooting is not its strong suit, so あなた better believe it’s going to do the thing it sucks the most at, and make it the main advertising point and thing it does the most. And man, this game started out frustrating, but now that I just play whack a モル, ほくろ with the enemies によって popping out of corners, and hoping I get a shot before they kill me, it really becomes just tedious and boring. Well until あなた get to the boss of this level where あなた are surrounded on all sides によって his men and they all open 火災, 火 on you. It was also during this fight that I noticed I had a 秒 knife. And it had a on it. Urns out these are throwing knives. But not just throwing knives. Throwing knives that when thrown, あなた can adjust their aim and trajectory to hit a target. Think like the Baterangs from the Arkham series…. But much, much worse. They 移動する so damn slow that it doesn’t even matter regardless. If あなた didn’t aim at them from the start, あなた didn’t hit them. Plus, what is even the point of throwing a slow ナイフ at an enemy who can アヒル, 鴨 out of cover one moment and back in the 次 when a bullet is faster, straighter, and gets the job done faster. So, yeah, that’s some wasted inventory space. So yeah, this boss is trash. Just hide in the elevator, and pick up the health when it respawns. There is no strategy other than run out, take some health off the boss and his goons, and run back and wait until your health box refills so あなた can get もっと見る health. But that’s not the worst part. The worst part is that after あなた beat the boss, the level keeps going. Ugh! And it’s in the garage, with wide open 宇宙 and no hiding spots. And もっと見る and もっと見る enemies just pour on in. And then my PS2 crashed… Fuck. These levels aren’t long, but fucking hell, with the tedium and the frustration, it sure as hell feels long. So I endure the level again and get pincer attacked from all sides without a chance to reload my guns. It's also here where I realize that if あなた aren’t close enough to an enemy, even if あなた can see their health bar, your shots don’t count. あなた can’t be too far from them, even if あなた can see them in the distance. Now they haven't hit me with any bullets, so I don’t know if they have to follow the same rules, but still. I am shooting at them with a submachine gun. I should be able to hit them from the otherside of the garage. Especially when going out further will just get me killed from all sides again. I died about two times, came real close again, before I finally escaped. I can at least say it was the least annoying level. But not good. Not even a little.
We get into level four and…. Oh god… an escort mission. あなた know how people always complain about how games that come out now don’t have the same charm as the old games? Well, one thing I will always be grateful about in new games is that they completely left these behind, または at the least, if they do have them, took out all the bullshit that makes them frustrating. Enemies are much, much harder to see in this subway level and they only have their eyes on the boss. This is a double edge sword, because now I can stand out and 火災, 火 on people as the boss hides behind a wall. But this also means that if the boss dies, it’s back to the start. And since the boss loves to run out into gunfire that can kill him in seconds, I have to jump out in front and hope I can kill all the enemies before he gets himself killed. Thankfully, I did it on my first try and managed to beat the level with the boss only filled with a few bullets. And there’s a reason why it was so short. Because the leve after is a fucking nightmare. あなた have to kill the target, No Neck Johnny, and collect info on a モル, ほくろ in the building. Yes, there’s a モル, ほくろ in your family. Not sure when または where it came from, but I am not fucked to care. After a cutscene, あなた need to get through ten enemies, some with body armor and fucking machine guns, all with only two health stations before reaching the boss, who is surrounded によって four other goons and has a fucking riot gun. But once あなた shoot him, he will run out and attack you. Assuming あなた don’t die on the way, あなた could get gunned down によって the four guys huddled in one room. And if あなた try to run after the boss, the only guy あなた really gotta kill, he could just gun あなた down with his insanely powerful riot gun. And for this part, the health stations stop refilling. It’s one and done. Sometimes あなた can get it once, but other times, あなた can’t. It’s also here whereI realize the damn 音楽 stops and loops, so having heard it twelve fucking times in a row, I was starting to lose my goddamn mind. But I did it! I killed the motherfucker and was able to 移動する on to the 次 level.
Leven six is… just… the same. もっと見る running. もっと見る mediocre shooting. One long section of enemies that can drain your bullets for the 次 area または just flat out kill あなた and send あなた right back to the start. Like what else can be 発言しました about this game? It’s just the same bad shooting for two hours. And yeah, I know HowLongtoBeat 発言しました that the game is three hours, but no. If あなた know what to do, it’s two. It’s only three from the series of stupid deaths and the breaks you’ll need to get through this nightmare. There’s also a part here where あなた can open doors and find a mobster flushing a toilet… I think that was supposed to be a joke. So there’s another boss, I think is the mole, and あなた know the drill. Hide behind a corner, run back when あなた need ammo, leave. But oh, of course one level, not one fucking level can just be medicore. あなた can’t just be bored. あなた gotta be frustrated. It’s been a while since we had a stealth section, so let’s do it again. This one is twice as long and frustrating, so thank あなた again, Game Marathon Runner. After that, もっと見る dark ボート missions, もっと見る blowing up crates, もっと見る sniper sections. This game is just every bad trope and tries to do it over and over again. What is there left to say. It’s not a fun game in the slightest. It’s a goddamn slogfest. We then get the final boss fight. It’s going to take a lot of skill, a lot of strength, with all the phases of- Hide behind the corner and kill her. That’s it. That’s all it is. Why would あなた expect anything else? But at least the level is over after that. With that, あなた get congratulations from the boss, Borello was the rat, I don’t even remember who that was, and あなた get slow moving credits with no music…. Fuck you.
Yeah, this game is bad. This is honestly the worst game I’ve played thus far. Good job, Marc Ecko’s Getting Up. あなた don’t suck as bad now. Trigger Man had nothing for me. I was hoping for a hokey as hell dumb action game, but it was just a slow, boring mess of a game. I didn’t understand the story, the visuals were ugly, every level was tedious at best and frustrating at worst, the gameplay was just the worst the third person shooter genre has to offer, and I can see now why this game has gotten nothing but hate throughout. And it isn’t even so bad it’s good kind of game. This is not a Road Redemption または a Ride to Hell または anything like that. This game is a total mess and a dull, hard to see one at that. Obviously gets the タイトル of Bottom of the Bin, right at the bottom. I’m glad this game is obscure. Fuck Trigger Man and let’s hope that it never gets worse than this again.