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Thankfully, Max'd is able to properly satisfy the urge to coat your opponents in paint with responsive controls and few cool duck and cover options. Once on the field in any of the game's modes you'll be able to dive forward, sprint, switch your gun, or marker as it's called, from hand to hand, and lean out or above stage obstacles.

This makes it really easy to successfully hide yourself and lean out at precisely the right moment or sprint at your enemies, dive down, and then shoot them before they have time to react.

In addition to your variety of moves, you'll also be able to command your squadmates to a certain degree. Before a match you'll have the option to layout how your squad will position themselves right after a match starts. You can even set secondary movement objectives and control periods of cover fire that they can provide.

After setting your pre-match strategy you'll be able to manipulate team positions once in the game. You can tell your teammates to move up, and you can also get them to assault certain areas. Given that your teammates act in a somewhat intelligent fashion, it's definitely to your advantage to plan team positions and move them around on the battlefield when trying to be the first to capture a flag.

For instance, some enemies take questionable cover positions. Generally, though, they'll stick behind cover and pop out occasionally to blast paint at you. As you move your opponents will react by darting between cover points. They're even smart enough to make risky ventures into a flag capture point to try and win the game before your team is eliminated.

At some points we charged into an area of cover to try and surprise an opponent behind it and we found ourselves getting our plastered with color. Our opponent had apparently been smart enough to see us coming, creep along the opposite edge of the obstacle, and then hop around behind us.

While at points it seemed like the enemies behaved intelligently, at other times they wouldn't notice if we fired several shots at them. When you are hit in the single player game the option to cheat becomes available. While this may seem unfair to some, it definitely lessens the degree of frustration in single player modes.

A timed mini game pops up on the screen when you get splattered and you'll need to stop a moving cursor at a specific point in order to have the hit be counted as a miss. If you do you'll move on. If you time it improperly you'll either be knocked out or even take a huge penalty like losing several of your teammates. You don't need to cheat in Max'd, but it's a nice feature and balanced with its share of negative outcomes. Another feature is the range of things you can do in career.

By winning tournaments you'll be able to accumulate experience points as well as credits that can be put towards new markers, clothing, carrying harnesses, and a bunch of other items. Yet despite the apparent depth, this mode still gets old after a while. Though you can progressively hire more teammates and improve your skills across 29 tournaments, each tournament eventually starts to blend into the one before it.

This is primarily because each map is very similar. Granted they differ aesthetically, but mostly each map is a small arena with inflatable obstacles or piles of wood among other things.

After a while, they all start to feel the same. Also, it's difficult to get a sense of how your skills are improving and how your movement is affected by weight. You can tell what improvements are being made based on what the game tells you, but actually feeling the difference while playing proves to be a more evasive matter. Shoot Your Friends. It's Fun. The feel of your marker in Max'd is yet another strong point. Even with crap equipment and low skill rankings, you'll still get a reliable cone of fire where you're aiming.

It's not like you'll be nailing targets with laser-like precision, but you won't be missing your opponents at point blank range. As might be expected, it's more difficult to be precise at longer distances, but the paintball trajectories remain well within the domain of reason.

There isn't much movement in the player models and some of the game's textures are boring. The gun models, too, aren't overly detailed, but they have some nice reflections in them and the different parts you have equipped are represented onscreen when you change parts.

Perhaps the most noticeable graphical feature is the fact that your first person view is encircled by your goggles, giving you a better sense of immersion. There are some lighting effects, but overall the graphics are tame. Players will occasionally shout and the announcer that chimes in at certain points is easy enough to listen to. Negative: 0 out of 8. If you've played paintball in the past -- particularly in a tournament situation -- you may find even more to love here than most.

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If you can look past the dated presentation you'll find a suprisingly fun, fast-paced game of paintball in Max'd. You'll definitely want to play online, but it's a real pain with a PS2.

Stick to the Xbox version of you're really committed to playing this one. But only slightly less perplexing is why, rather than spending a few hours twiddling the sticks of a PS2 controller, most of the game's target audience wouldn't instead heave the ol' butt out of its couch groove and go play some real paintball? User Reviews. Write a Review. Positive: 14 out of Mixed: 0 out of Negative: 1 out of The best game ever.

I love the game from xbox but i am also concerned about when it will be out for ps2 some1 help please and answer me. This game is the sickest paintball game in the world. This game is awesome, I play tournament paintball, but this game tells me it all, ill never get rid of it, or bored of it. Very good game. It takes a couple hours to master the controls, but after you get them down, your set to go.

This game is totally wicked, I first played it at my friends and I'm like I got to have it.