Been there, repulsed that. Review

August 1, 2002

Been there, repulsed that.

It’s amazing how quickly gamers become jaded and elitist, but it’s also a cold,

hard fact that a couple of months alone with a PS2 can just ruin a guy.

If you’re one of those PS2-owning gamers out there who would sooner subject yourself

to a vigorous body-cavity search than willingly regress to playing most PSOne

titles, then…

Strains the PSOne to its graphical extremes
Some genuinely hard, challenging situations
Strongly resembles
...but, uh,
Hackneyed, cookie-cutter premise
The Enemy That Wouldn't Think
Unreliably wonky camera

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time. He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money. Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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Strains the PSOne to its graphical extremes Some genuinely hard, challenging situations Strongly resembles ...but, uh, Hackneyed, cookie-cutter premise The Enemy That Wouldn't Think Unreliably wonky camera

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