World Destruction League: War Jetz

War Jetz is in full 3-D, featuring a third-person, over-the-shoulder (from the rear of the plane) perspective, and it offers lots of missions centering on basic gameplay concepts such as: capturing flags, destroying things after searching for them, and Grab-the-Bux, which is World Destruction League's fancy term for money. Search and Destroy is the best mode, as the objectives tend to be really interesting. San Francisco gamers in particular will enjoy the mission where you have to destroy as many BART trains as possible.

The controls are reminiscent of Star Wars: Rogue Squadron or Nintendo's Star Fox series, and they work quite well with the PS2 controller. The strength of the game is the graphics and visuals, the deep booming sound of the explosions, the variety of craft you can fly, and the fast-paced action. Still, it will start to get old pretty quickly for most gamers.

The game features interesting power-ups such as a Vampire Ray, air-to-air missiles, and more. The game features hilarious cutscenes and some decent, if silly, voice acting. Probably the only real disappointment here is the lack of a Thunder Tanks-style, four-player, split-screen option. Other than that, if you've got a jones for flying around, blowing stuff up, and mindless repetition, then this is the game for you. --Andrew S. Bub

Pros:

• Great visuals
• Lots of planes and some great missions
• Hilarious cutscenes and dialogue

• Lacks four-player multiplayer
• Gets old fast

realism 9.9
realistic sound effects 9.5
gameplay (the story) 9.9
sound 9.6
graphics (they were animated a little) 9.5
handling (how easy the controls are) 9.9 (it takes a few times of playing to get used to them tho)
overall 10.9


Wrestling with planes. cool...but   July 10, 2001
 2 out of 5 found this review helpful

But it could have been better. The idea is quite fun. You fly around different areans and blow everything up. There are very few things that can't be blown up and that is appealing. There are several different aircraft to buy and unlock which also is very appealing. The planes are easy to fly and each have good and bad points. What's bad? For starters the graphic are good. But are no where near what the PS2 could and should be doing. When Gran turismo 3 arrives I think it is going to show us some of what this system is capable of, as well as shaming the other companies for the garbage that they have been offering to us. Most games are not much more than PSX standard and that's just ripping us off. The worst part of the game by far is the missions. At first it is interesting and a little different. But many of the mission are the same. To smae, they become very repitious after a while and a short while at that. This game had a lot more potential than the game is, and as usual that's 3DO's fault. 3DO has a very long way to go before becoming a good game company. They get good ideas and then always make them fall short. This is a fun game, but i'd be very wary of buying it. This is a renter.