Despite drawing inspiration from AAA titles like Halo and Gears of War, Deep Black is atrocious. It has a generic, forgettable story told by flimsy voice actors, and the game’s muddy visuals make it difficult to muck through the campaign. Even worse, it suffers from a number of exceedingly poor design choices that plague it at the very core. It’s not just a bad third-person, cover-based shooter, but a black stain on gaming in general.
The PS3 version of Deep Black is the third iteration of the game to see release within five months, preceded by Deep Black: Reloaded on PC in March 2012 and Deep Black: Episode 1 on Xbox 360 a month later. In spite of the slight variations in naming, Deep Black for PS3 is the same crappy game it’s always been.
Deep Black has a lot of ambition, but never really accomplishes any of the goals made for itself. It falls short of a lot of things, gameplay being the frontrunner in that category. A mundane story doesn't help at all, giving little to no reason in dropping $15 bucks on it.
Deep Black really doesn’t waste any time putting you right into the action of modern day espionage. The whole game revolves around essentially being a spy, and having to secretly complete missions to help your organization accomplish their goals. It’s a pretty cut and dry story that didn’t do anything that we haven’t seen before. The only difference is that instead of having the blessing of doing missions on land, you have to do them from underwater (for the majority, anyways). Yes everyone, Deep Black is an underwater 3rd person shooter with an emphasis on stealth and espionage. You complete mission after mission while stalking your prey like a shark, then either striking from under the water, or coming out to greet them face to face. The only question that remains is…does it work?
GIZORAMA - Third person shooters have taken us into space, under ground, through the air, and upside down. Jungles, deserts, rubble, and downtown have filled the environments. Deep Black’s developer, Biart, wanted to put out something a bit different for the genre. With experience in creating games solely based around underwater activity, they decided to take the third person shooter underwater with Deep Black. Deep Black doesn’t spend the whole time underwater as there are plenty of times that fighting will bring the player out into the rusty industrialist environments between excursions in the water.
