"An Unreal 3 engine game with both single and multiplayer for $10? Too good to be true? Well, sort of."
From Dramsettler's: "The Punisher is and will always be one of the most badass hardcore hero in the Marvel universe. His guns and blood thirst for revenge makes him appeal to appeal because most of us will never let out our anger like this guy. A few years ago The Punisher game was relasesd and it wowed us with its extensive use of violence and good storyline behind it. Everyone was excited that a new Punisher game was coming out. Then they said it was going to be realaesed as a PSN arcade game.Cool. With the usage of Unreal engine and just the Punisher license how could they fuck this up....right?"
Gamer 2.0 writes: "The Punisher: No Mercy is Marvel's attempt to release comic inspired games as downloadable content. While The Punisher in itself is a dull character to completely base an entire game around, this PSN title does nothing to change the feelings towards him. With a boring single player mode, repetitive gunplay and serious, serious bugs and glitches that hinder almost every aspect of the game, The Punisher: No Mercy feels almost like an unfinished product that was released for the sake of trying to cash in on the popular Marvel names."
GrE writes, "When I heard that there was going to be a Punisher downloadable game on PlayStation Network, my first thought was "will this be any good?" Unfortunately, Punisher: No Mercy fails to do the license justice. Really, it appears to be more of a sub-average first person shooter, with skins that are based off of characters from the Punisher comic book..."
This is a pretty one-dimensional comic book character, right? I should go dig up those Garth Ennis ones. He can do no wrong.
that is what happens when your texture designer decides to take a class in fingerpainting.
wow, an FPS based on a shooting comic book guy using the Unreal Engine. Whoda thunk it would suck? heh.
Yeah, maybe just make it a FPS and take the Punisher name off it. Or does anyone really care?
Honestly this game is the worst psn game I have ever bought, its basically the downgraded version of Unreal Tournament 3 with Punisher characters, its worth $2.00 at best.
I was glad I bought this game it's actually Tons of Fun.
For some odd reason the PS srore will NOT allow me to download either the demo or the full game so I can't say a great deal about this one except that the reviewer expecting a real SP mode is nuts when you consider dearer games like L4D and UT3 don't bother with anything but a training exercise.
No real reviews of how the co-op does yet either- they always gloss over it, is it THAT bad?
Really nails the Punisher look and feel. Plays great. It's cheap. Add all that up and I would give the game a 9. It misses the 10 because it does have some screen tearing, but for being a licensed product it rocks.
It's just the same as the sp except there are two of you. each level requires you to do something like get to 50 kills first on your team or survive 8 waves of enemies and you now get a partner to help you do that. good point about it though, no one's mentioning it.
This was definitely a day one for me since I'm pretty big into comics hence support the universes when ever possible.