Sound off

SZ pumps a lot of attitude into its sound and strangely futuristic metallic style music to suit the world your destroying piece by piece. The sound is exceptionally high quality, shooting bullets into the metal bodies of your foe sounds like you might expect it to. Jumping up and clashing back down with you huge metal feet and hearing the noise thunder out of your speakers as you do so helps to convey scale and depth.

Explosions tower up into the night sky as you spot off yet another bad guy with your combination of missile and machine gun style weaponry that constantly gets upgraded and changed as you pickup ammo and upgrade packs along the way. That's Slave Zero though, one mean, tough piece of metal that just keeps on giving - not to be confused with Santa Clause.

The Verdict

We thoroughly enjoyed Slave Zero with its mix of swish graphics, stomping sound and fast paced gameplay. However it can get a little repetitive and some may find it to hard to play. Another downside is the style of gameplay doesn't appeal to everybody as say Half-Life might, the level of depth and scenery does change but your always in similarly scaled locations and can't leave the confines of your big bodied friend.

A good fun game that'll last a bit, perhaps just not a great game that'll last a lot.

by Mark 'KILLZAT' Jackson

Graphics - 8.5 Sound - 9 Gameplay - 8 Originality - 8
Overall - 8 (80%)

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