You guide a covert-ops team of five soldiers, each with their own specialty. Sadly, little of the drama actually unfolds during missions, which might have made them more interesting. The best part of Alpha Black Zero is the plot, told mainly in cutscenes between the endlessly long missions. If you've played Hitman: Contracts, you'll know all about playing missions as flashbacks you'll also have played a much better game than this one. The missions you play are actually flashbacks of the events leading up to Hardlaw's alleged transgressions. You're dropped into the shoes of Lieutenant Kyle Hardlaw (who comes up with these names?), just in time for his court martial. This game should be called Alpha Black Marathon.Īlpha Black Zero wants to be a futuristic, third-person, sci-fi version of Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon. And most of the time, you're unable to take a direct route to the waypoint because those damn giant hills are in the way, so you jog back and forth down endless valleys like winding your way through the lines at Disneyland, hoping that the next valley you turn down will be the last. You follow the waypoint marker on your HUD, but there's no data about how far away the waypoint is - your HUD only discloses its direction. You lead your squad of tactical warriors through one valley after the next of mostly lifeless hills. The outdoor levels, of which there are many, are huge - stretching the Serious Sam engine (upon which the game is based) to its limit. Alpha Black Zero is built on a version of the Serious Sam game engine.Īlpha Black Zero is all about jogging. The game is designed to allow players to decide for themselves how to accomplish objectives, whether through patient, stealthy precision, trigger-happy running-and-gunning, or a brave mix of both. Missions are set both inside and outdoors, on a number of different aliens worlds. Players take command of a small squad of soldiers and battle through 19 levels of dangerous missions. Alpha Black Zero is a third-person shooter is set in the year 2366, featuring a story of conspiracy and corruption.

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