CRITERION GAMES

Reviews

Amazingly intense gunplay from start to finish; environments react to every bullet you fire; excellent visuals and sound; cool explosions.

BLACK does deliver some of the most intense action the Xbox has to offer, and if you just want to experience what it would be like firing off countless rounds of ammo in a number of environments, this is the game for you.

Criterion not only makes the visual experience unlike anything you've encountered, but also makes the core combat a determinedly brutal affair that'll test the best in ways that even FPS veterans will be forced to admire.

BLACK is a very, very fine game – it provides perhaps the most uncomplicated, visceral gameplay experience that we can remember in any FPS, it looks fantastic and it’s satisfyingly hard.

The developers did a fantastic job of setting up the dominoes (which in this case are the destructible environments) so that I could come in and knock them down in a wash of bullets and destruction.

Black never forces players to hunt for keys; if there's a door in your way, a shotgun cracks it open nicely.