Greg Hastings Paintball 2 Review (PSN)

When I started writing reviews for this site I never thought I’d end up reviewing a first person shooter paintball game, but lo’ and behold, it has happened, so on I loaded Greg Hastings Paintball 2 onto my PS3 to see what it would be like.

Creating my first team was simple enough, there’s little if anything to differentiate between the players you get to choose from to begin with so it was pretty much straight into playing through the tutorial and the first tournament.

The first thing you notice when playing the game is the graphics, or lack thereof. They are very, very basic, next to no details in the texture on surfaces and the players themselves look and move in a very basic fashion, not really what you’d expect from a game these days. Other reviewers have compared the graphics to the Wii or even the original Xbox and I have to say I agree with them, although there are moments when they are acceptable but for the most part they are a letdown.

The sound is somewhat better, with some nice song choice as you go through the menus and very realistic sound effects during the matches themselves, everything from the paintballs firing to the sound of your player sliding over grass are very well done and fit the gameplay nicely, adding to the overall experience of virtual paintballing.

Greg Hastings Paintball 2 Gameplay Video