I remember a mission where you have to be stealthy in the woods and you were able to screw/unscrew your silencer onto your pistol, that blew my mind as a kid. the level of detail and animations were crazy for the time
007 Nightfire had this feature and I loved it. Felt just like Bond, coldly screwing the suppressor on before stealthing around. To this very day, most games make you go into customisation menu and change your loadout to add them!
@@MrHammers I remember Gulag best level on these genre by any game. It was impossible to beat on hard. It took me 30 restarts to unlock silver weapon. Problem was I was poor my TV wasnt crystal clear like Monitors now.
I always thought "black" was a stupid name for a shooter, but I recently learned that "black" is military lingo for "out of ammo." It's a brilliant name for this game.
Damn I remember this game from the ps2 era. We didn't have internet , and I never heard anything about this game and no one recommended it to me . Our paths just crossed accidentally . The first couple of minutes I played , I knew this games quality was on another level. The light rays coming through the windows ,the sound ,the destructible environment .I was thinking like what the hell is this. This game caught me so of guard and that element of surprise I wont ever forget. That's why I love this game so much.
The musical score for the game was composed by an Academy Award winning hollywood composer, Michael Giacchino who had done scores for movies like the Batman (2022) and some pixar movies like Up and Ratatouille.
I found this game in a flea market. It was already the ps4 generation so I knew that new great looking stuff was out, but I remember being blown away by how good this game looked, from the home screen to the game itself. Not a single other game on the ps2 I owned looked this good.
I really love the fact that they use mp5 sound effects from Die Hard and Predator. that sound will always be the most deadly automatic gun sound to me :D
One of my most cherished games from that era. The destructible environments were phenomenal for its time, only perhaps rivalled by something like Red Faction: Guerilla. A remake of this with an extended campaign to cover off the cliffhanger ending from the OG version would be beyond amazing.
I have a personal connection to this game. Not that I helped develop or knew anyone associated with it. When the game came out I was living in Florida and working for a private security company. My call sign for that company was Echo -51, just like the main character in Black.
best feature of this game was the way your screen focused during a reload. Just hitting reload would blur the world beyond your weapon and you'd reload faster, or you could tap reload again and bring the environment into focus and blur your weapon with a slight delay in reload speed. Never seen another game do it and it really set this game apart in my mind.
@@MrHammers I loved this game til FarCry 3 came. I wasnt fan of 1st person cause Im more Lara Croft camera style gamer but after I played this on PS2 and Far Cry 3 on PC cemented my love. Today I love Generation Zero best game by any mean in this genre I even dare to rank over Far Cry 4.
This definitely has that "game released an asshole hair away from that generations end" magic, looking like an early PS3 game. God of war 2 has that going on too 👌💪
@@FontaineLovers 2006 was at the end of the consoles Peak before the PS3/360 stole the show. Most of the titles released after 2007 were just trying to capitalize on people who didn't have a 360/PS3 yet they generally weren't technically ambitious games anymore, mostly sports games or movie/show tie ins and some kids games
Black and FEAR are my favorite shooters ever, graphics have aged but the gunplay is still timeless, more satisfying and impacful than most shooters since the Xbox 360 / PS3 until this gen.
I always used semi-auto and aim for the head because anywhere else didn't kill quickly enough. Semi-auto to reduce the recoil, Black was one of the first games to have fire select afaik. Such a great game.
@@geehammer1511 the single fire M-16 was the best gun on this game, no contest. You could kill high armored helmet enemies from a very far distance. For example, like the bridge level. It's a must.
I love playing this game as a kid and the graphics blew my mind back then. The Forest level is very realistic looking. There's a detail I want to point out is reloading is much faster when chaos happens. I also love this game gives us infinite ammo if you beat the game on Easy. Yes the other difficulty also gives infinite ammo if you beat it. I always had a fun time with this game and this game had a special place in my heart.
The way I discovered Black was pretty cool almost like a bestowment or blessing lol. When I was a kid my step dad borrowed a ps2 from one of his friends to use as a dvd player. I actually still had ps2 games from a couple years prior in my closet so after a couple months of inactivity with the ps2 in our house I asked if I could hook it up to play games and when I opened up the disc tray Black was just sitting in there. I didnt play it at first but I eventually tried it and loved it.
My dad used to play this for hours back in the day. It’s literally a core memory for me and reminds me of the good days of my childhood. Miss you pops.
I remember playing this game with my brother on our PS2. The first time it loaded my first thought was "damn the graphics are elite" when comparing it to the other games we had.
I remember playing this. The destructable environments were mind blowing at the time. Not sure which mission it was, but I remember taking on a small army from a gantry at a mine or something.
odd fact, the shell casings you dispense never disappear, each bullet you use will appear on the ground and stay there throughout the whole game, theres also an alex jones reference in the game relating to bohemian grove, this game has too much attention to detail, one of the ps2 titles to use ragdoll physics, love this game.
My favorite section in that game was the final battle area on Graznei bridge (The level before the last one). You walk in. The orchestra kicks in. Two MG nests start spitting out lead. Your two squad mates are yelling at your character and your character yells "We're gonna get cut to pieces! Drop the guy on high ground!" Then after a while, one of your squad mates yells "RPG!" and you see a rocket flying next to your face. Chef's kiss for that fight. It was so memorable and it will always hold a special place in my heart
Me and my best buddy used to play this for hours. You said it, there was nothing else like it. The closest thing I can think of is battlefield: bad company, and that came a couple years later.
BF2 was better Had the best rank system because you couldn't get rank without skill and medals combined. If you saw a colonel you knew it was someone with skill in the game not just time accumulated.
Black was a random buy and purchase for me way back when and I can whole heartedly say every single line and sentiment of this review was spot on and true! Simplicity was indeed king and what made this title as great as it was!
I never got around to playing this one. But my mind always painted it as a prestigious PS2 title. Maybe it was because it came out so late in that console’s life cycle, but I also found the game’s simple title and bullet filled box art to be so classy.
I replayed this game so many times, it felt like you had to replay it several times to unlock all the secrets. The hardest one I remember was probably the destruction one where you had to destroy everything in every level that would make the reticle turn black when placed over it indicating that it could be destroyed. Most of the time you would need something explosive to do it or the RPG with its range to hit stuff out of reach, like in that trench maze level where you're surrounded by apartment buildings that can have their sides blown off to kill the snipers.
Being a 36 year old man, it's quite a strange feeling for me to hear someone say "My dad used to play this game" about a game that I used to play. And yes, I have no children yet.
I remember exactly where I was when I first played this game. It was a fair in Bakersfield, CA that had some Xbox’s set up to play Black and buy copies. Me and my buddy sat and played for way too long and came back to the booth like three times. Good day. Finally got a copy of my own and I will never get rid of it.
As a person who never played black and had a PC which a year prior had just released F.E.A.R, Black felt like it was the consoles answer to FEARs gunfu.
F.E.A.R. is most definitely the better game, but console vs PC in that generation was a big unfair advantage. Black was a good attempt at what FEAR excelled in
@@MrHammers certainly it was definitely not a fair comparison and I do remember I was very interested in black when it came out. Apparently Sean Murray From hello games was a creative director I think on this game.
my childhood. I can't remember if i had the full game or a demo, but this game blew my mind as it was a whole new experience and i didn't even make it that far through i just kept replaying the first few sections over and over again
I won't lie, your reviews get me interested to try out all these PS2 games that I missed out on. They're what got me to try out Urban Chaos: Riot Response and Area 51. Now I'm interested to try out Black for myself. BTW that opening bit about renting videos and games got me nostalgic like you wouldn't believe. Especially since my local rental store went out of business in 2020. Thanks Covid.
I will never forget the heartbeat sound. Also, the silenced Glock level was the best mission of any game I have played. So much fun. And the sounds were awesome.
You forget About the Soundtrack, its was Really amazing, And Theres a lot of details In this game, Like When theres no Enemies Around you, The reload was kinda Slower like he Enjoying it.
I remember the day I bought this game. Standing in line at game stop, talking to other people buying games. I think we all lived through the best days of video games and this game ties me to those memories.
Ah, nam, forgot about this game. Remember bits and pieces of the game play, but do recall loving it and playing it loads. Still got my PS2 and games, so might have to dust it off one day... Cheers.
Heard this was good when it came out, never bought it, then eventually bought in on xboxone as a back compat game, never finished it, but this video makes me want to go back to it.
Black, Red Faction and Battlefield Bad Company did the same thing with destructible environments as F.E.A.R did with enemy AI - it led us to think at the time that future FPSs would become absolutely crazy in those regards. Now look at what we have _over 15 years_ later - nothing that even comes close to those old games. The FPS genre didn't evolve from there. It didn't even just stagnate. It moved backwards and only had a few cosmetic surgeries, thanks to hot garbage like Modern Warfare.
They tried improving on it and bringing similar systems to more graphically demanding games. It didn't really work. PhysX, for example, was a fad for a while before devs just gave up on it because it just wasn't worth the performance hit. It was far more efficient graphically speaking to focus on stuff like tessellation or detailed decals and keep destruction to things that didn't melt CPUs. And then there's the problem with balancing for multiplayer games. Stuff like Bad Company worked because you couldn't destroy absolutely everything, just some buildings and it wasn't all that random. It's not like you could litter the battlefield with rubble, instead a building would basically just change into a destroyed building and that was really it. BF4 took the same idea and made it bigger with levolution. The Red Faction games were really some of the only few that had entirely destructible environments (besides things like Minecraft), but those games were built with that idea in mind. It's core to the gameplay.
Playing through this classic currently. Emulated on a S24 Ultra with a Backbone controller, at x2.5 native resolution. It has never looked better and is absolutely epic on the go 👌🏻🎮 💥
makes me smile knowing this great game is still living in the hearts of many and not forgotten. it's such a shame how EA just abandoned this fantastic game
Black is one of those games that, once you get older, you realize it's not the best game of the world, neither "one of the bests". It's just a good and fun game to play, and that's ok because there's some kind of charm in games like this, games that no matter when you play, they're always a good time.
Thanks for making this. Im an elder gamer and I thought everyone else had forgotten this banger. First time a game made me feel like the guns were tangible, kinetic and dangerous.
i remember playing this on my ps2 when it came out for hours on end. my brother would be in the same room listening to nelly, chingy, cassie, the game. man. what an era.
I'm 48 and i was OBSESSED with BLACK, I got so good at that game, it was so FUN! I miss those days but I'm still shooting lots of digital guns everyday so i guess all is well. GREAT VIDEO!!!!!! I'd love to see a remake of Black.
hugely underrated game imo. it combined a realist setting with stylised, hyper realistic violence. it's easy to reduce it to its fundamental gameplay mechanics and encounter design and write it off as just another shooter. but sometimes form has a function all of its own.
The problem is not the graphics but it is not much fun after a while. A game like ghost recon and rainbow six never get boring because the enemy ai is so good and there is always a feeling extreme tension
Loved playing this game with my dad before on the og xbox before he'd have to go to work. Good old days. Also the sequence of fighting in the graveyard, and shooting down the gravestones to shoot enemies hiding behind them blew my mind.
I was probably about 9 or 10, and I was messing around with my dad's ps2 and the cabinet the games were in, and found black. This was during the ps3-ps4 Era. Black was the first game I popped in and tried on the ps2. It blew my mind how good it looked for a console I was too young to remember playing when it came out. I then went on to play ssx tricky, okami, dynasty warriors 4, and so on. Every day I wish that ps2 still worked. Very few games were as consistently fun as the games I found in that cabinet.
What a great game this was. I replayed this so many times. The infinite ammo and m203 grenade launcher on the m16 were really fun to once you unlocked it.
As i was watching the video, i realised mrhammers has literally described all that i felt playing while this game as a kid, i absolutely replayed the fck outta this game on my ps2 to the point where i slept less and less to just play more and more, my father had to take away ps2 for almost a week until i started acting good just to get it back and taken away again, this time for a month lol, i was addicted to this game, this game and COD3 is where my love for FPS shooters started. even tho i played cod1, cod2, the big red one also, these two just hit different, too realistic at that time, Cod3 effectively made me a fckin American soldier of ww2 for quite some time hahah. I was mind blown by the graphics of these games(also punisher the game) at the time. this video gave me a ton of nostalgia of the good ol ps2 days, thanks for the great video man. made me instantly subscribe
funny story: i played this game when i was a kid on the ps2 and didn't know much English then so i bought it by chance because the picture looked cool, i gave the ps2 to a cousin with all the games when the ps3 became popular, every now and then i occasionally looked for it to play it on a ps2 emulator just for nostalgia sake and i couldn't find it with any search query, your video solved a 17 years mystery, thanks 🙏😂
I remember a mission where you have to be stealthy in the woods and you were able to screw/unscrew your silencer onto your pistol, that blew my mind as a kid. the level of detail and animations were crazy for the time
The option to add/remove suppressors was amazing!
Such a small thing, but absolutely awesome all the same
007 Nightfire had this feature and I loved it. Felt just like Bond, coldly screwing the suppressor on before stealthing around. To this very day, most games make you go into customisation menu and change your loadout to add them!
@@MrHammers I remember Gulag best level on these genre by any game. It was impossible to beat on hard. It took me 30 restarts to unlock silver weapon. Problem was I was poor my TV wasnt crystal clear like Monitors now.
Why would you want to remove the silencer after adding it? Genuinely asking.
I always thought "black" was a stupid name for a shooter, but I recently learned that "black" is military lingo for "out of ammo." It's a brilliant name for this game.
Yea from what’s called an ACE report 🫡
It also means secret operations.
To this day, my dad doesn't care about playing new shooters, all he wants to play is PGA and BLACK.
I showed my dad COD MW from 2019 and he legit said it looks about the same as Black
You're dad is a simple man with simple pleasures. What a beast
Golf and guns, dad sounds cool as hell. 😂
@@alenterzic8340I’m sure black looked AMAZING when it came out
He isnt wrong atleast he gets a full game. Doesnt have to worry about any dlc or wi-fi connection
Damn I remember this game from the ps2 era. We didn't have internet , and I never heard anything about this game and no one recommended it to me . Our paths just crossed accidentally . The first couple of minutes I played , I knew this games quality was on another level. The light rays coming through the windows ,the sound ,the destructible environment .I was thinking like what the hell is this. This game caught me so of guard and that element of surprise I wont ever forget. That's why I love this game so much.
Very similar experience here, I found Black in a old ps2 my stepdad was borrowing from a friend to use as a DVD player lol.
This is a prime “Dad wants to bond with his son” game.
in specific amurrrican households only
yeah fr
i didnt have a ps2 until 2006 so we bonded playing Medal of Honor (ps1)
Look at the top comment lol
So true, me and my dad burnt this game up it was one of the only shooters he really liked to play such a nostalgic game for me
@@CarpCSA35 I speak with experience
The musical score for the game was composed by an Academy Award winning hollywood composer, Michael Giacchino who had done scores for movies like the Batman (2022) and some pixar movies like Up and Ratatouille.
and LOST
And MOH Frontline
@@threatlevel_TACO Now THAT was his Magnum Opus
Black is the first game I realized where the bullet decal doesn't evaporate. I don't know why that's the memorable part I remember.
Bullet casings would fall on the ground and stay there too, had a lot of cool details
@@Justin-f7f For some reason that stuck for me too lmao
First time playing ps2 first time playing black and my good heavens
Because it was GREAT
Black had a genuinely dark violent intensity that no other game came close to. I remember playing it and recognizing it as an evolution of fps gaming.
I found this game in a flea market. It was already the ps4 generation so I knew that new great looking stuff was out, but I remember being blown away by how good this game looked, from the home screen to the game itself. Not a single other game on the ps2 I owned looked this good.
Try medal of honor series on ps 2
@@kotetsujin3493medal of honor was goated ❤
I fell the PS4 is when FPS gaming, especially COD, finally hit it it’s stride in the PS network
The sound of reloading the 870 pump is still to this day chilling
I really love the fact that they use mp5 sound effects from Die Hard and Predator. that sound will always be the most deadly automatic gun sound to me :D
also, seeing you covered this game makes me think that you should make a video on "Cold Winter" as well. another really cool console fps game :)
One of my most cherished games from that era. The destructible environments were phenomenal for its time, only perhaps rivalled by something like Red Faction: Guerilla.
A remake of this with an extended campaign to cover off the cliffhanger ending from the OG version would be beyond amazing.
I have a personal connection to this game. Not that I helped develop or knew anyone associated with it. When the game came out I was living in Florida and working for a private security company. My call sign for that company was Echo -51, just like the main character in Black.
That's awesome 😎
best feature of this game was the way your screen focused during a reload. Just hitting reload would blur the world beyond your weapon and you'd reload faster, or you could tap reload again and bring the environment into focus and blur your weapon with a slight delay in reload speed. Never seen another game do it and it really set this game apart in my mind.
My 7 year old mind never knew. Very cool feature.
That was the only feature I was impressed with.
I miss so much simpler linear fps games, if you don't count boomer shooters there is no single fps like this anymore 😔
As much as it's a FEAR spiritual successor, Black definitely had an impact on Trepang2. Give it a shot (heh)
Trepang2 was great!
@@MrHammers Agree! But it's just a drop of water in the desert for me. Selaco also great.
Haven't tried that one yet, I've heard good things
@@MrHammers I loved this game til FarCry 3 came. I wasnt fan of 1st person cause Im more Lara Croft camera style gamer but after I played this on PS2 and Far Cry 3 on PC cemented my love. Today I love Generation Zero best game by any mean in this genre I even dare to rank over Far Cry 4.
I still remember the shock I got from the graphics. I had never seen it so sharp.
Reminds me so much of Killzone 2/3 on PS3. Incredible graphics considering the aged hardware.
@@tontsar91They don't make games like this anymore.
This was one of my most favorite fps games for ps2 it was soo mutch fun especially going into new game plus with crome camos and gold camos
"blasting open the door with a shotgun wasnt something you CAN do, its a god damn instruction"
i lold hard
semper fi
semper friesss crayon eater
This definitely has that "game released an asshole hair away from that generations end" magic, looking like an early PS3 game. God of war 2 has that going on too 👌💪
Also shadow of the colossus
this game was released in 2006, the last PS2 game was released in 2012 so no, black is not that close to an end of PS2
@@FontaineLovers but the ps3 was like 07 or 08 something like that so he's not wrong at all
@@FontaineLoversthe ps3 came out in 06 - 07
@@FontaineLovers 2006 was at the end of the consoles Peak before the PS3/360 stole the show. Most of the titles released after 2007 were just trying to capitalize on people who didn't have a 360/PS3 yet they generally weren't technically ambitious games anymore, mostly sports games or movie/show tie ins and some kids games
Black and FEAR are my favorite shooters ever, graphics have aged but the gunplay is still timeless, more satisfying and impacful than most shooters since the Xbox 360 / PS3 until this gen.
FEAR was awesome
Graznei bridge is one of my most favorite missions in single llayer fps' to this day.
Great video!
This level basically was my gold standard for levels in fps games.
I got goosebumps when i saw the footage of that level. My favourite in the whole game. 💪
This game hit as a kid when I'd wake up early in a quiet sunny morning so excited to boot up my PS2 and play this.
This game taught me that processing power isn't as important as attention to detail and artstyle
I'm 46 and there has NEVER been a time when it wasn't. Most of the top purchased games were not those with the highest processing abilities.
I'd say both are equally important.
@@tontsar91 No.
It changes how big your art canvas is, and how many tools you have to work with, so more potential, but the artist may not even that much anyways.
I liked the lighting effects through glass windows and the huge explosion destroying that big tanker
Oh damn, didnt expect you to mention how the ludicrous mag sizes were necessary for the bullet sponge enemies
None of you learned to aim for the head apparently!
Now imagine how i feel when i prefer semi auto 😭
@theturkishprincwell Thor didn't so we can be forgiven 😂
I always used semi-auto and aim for the head because anywhere else didn't kill quickly enough. Semi-auto to reduce the recoil, Black was one of the first games to have fire select afaik. Such a great game.
@@geehammer1511 the single fire M-16 was the best gun on this game, no contest. You could kill high armored helmet enemies from a very far distance. For example, like the bridge level. It's a must.
100k! This has become a comfort channel
Thanks my man
I love playing this game as a kid and the graphics blew my mind back then. The Forest level is very realistic looking. There's a detail I want to point out is reloading is much faster when chaos happens. I also love this game gives us infinite ammo if you beat the game on Easy. Yes the other difficulty also gives infinite ammo if you beat it. I always had a fun time with this game and this game had a special place in my heart.
The way I discovered Black was pretty cool almost like a bestowment or blessing lol. When I was a kid my step dad borrowed a ps2 from one of his friends to use as a dvd player. I actually still had ps2 games from a couple years prior in my closet so after a couple months of inactivity with the ps2 in our house I asked if I could hook it up to play games and when I opened up the disc tray Black was just sitting in there. I didnt play it at first but I eventually tried it and loved it.
this is core memory stuff you put out bud thanks a billion !!
My dad used to play this for hours back in the day. It’s literally a core memory for me and reminds me of the good days of my childhood. Miss you pops.
I remember playing this game with my brother on our PS2. The first time it loaded my first thought was "damn the graphics are elite" when comparing it to the other games we had.
What a throwback! I remember getting drawn in about just how real and gritty this game felt.
The audio is this piece was AMAZING
I remember playing this. The destructable environments were mind blowing at the time.
Not sure which mission it was, but I remember taking on a small army from a gantry at a mine or something.
odd fact, the shell casings you dispense never disappear, each bullet you use will appear on the ground and stay there throughout the whole game, theres also an alex jones reference in the game relating to bohemian grove, this game has too much attention to detail, one of the ps2 titles to use ragdoll physics, love this game.
I remember my brother getting a demo disc of this in a magazine and it BLEW MY MIND. Damn, depressing to think how old I am now 🫤
This is the game that no one knows about. BLACK was a crazy shooter, with crazy fire guns. It was the COD before COD. It is certified a hidden gem.
Bro everybody knows about it
@@MelanatedRepublican based of your username im not even gunna argue with you about this
@@IISourAyyII you wouldn't want to because your completely wrong just because you were born in 2008 doesn't mean other games didn't exist
@@MelanatedRepublican I was born in 1991 LMFAO
@@IISourAyyII well then your just an idiot
My favorite section in that game was the final battle area on Graznei bridge (The level before the last one). You walk in. The orchestra kicks in. Two MG nests start spitting out lead. Your two squad mates are yelling at your character and your character yells "We're gonna get cut to pieces! Drop the guy on high ground!" Then after a while, one of your squad mates yells "RPG!" and you see a rocket flying next to your face.
Chef's kiss for that fight. It was so memorable and it will always hold a special place in my heart
Me and my best buddy used to play this for hours. You said it, there was nothing else like it. The closest thing I can think of is battlefield: bad company, and that came a couple years later.
BF2 was better
Had the best rank system because you couldn't get rank without skill and medals combined.
If you saw a colonel you knew it was someone with skill in the game not just time accumulated.
Black was a random buy and purchase for me way back when and I can whole heartedly say every single line and sentiment of this review was spot on and true! Simplicity was indeed king and what made this title as great as it was!
Finished this for the first time on my Series X a couple of months ago. Still such a fun experience
My dad used to play this game religiously! I remember him teaching me how to play and coaching me along the way when I was little lol
I never got around to playing this one. But my mind always painted it as a prestigious PS2 title. Maybe it was because it came out so late in that console’s life cycle, but I also found the game’s simple title and bullet filled box art to be so classy.
The case covered in bullets is a piece of art, it's so perfect with the title buried in them haha
I replayed this game so many times, it felt like you had to replay it several times to unlock all the secrets. The hardest one I remember was probably the destruction one where you had to destroy everything in every level that would make the reticle turn black when placed over it indicating that it could be destroyed. Most of the time you would need something explosive to do it or the RPG with its range to hit stuff out of reach, like in that trench maze level where you're surrounded by apartment buildings that can have their sides blown off to kill the snipers.
Played this in 2009/10 when Modern Warfare 2 was big.
Honestly looked and felt better than MW2 in some places.
MW2 was fun but it never felt particularly good. BF3 on the other hand, immaculate
So awesome seeing so many people mention dads playing this with them. My dad absolutely loved this game .
My dad would play this all the time with his MadCats pistol grip controller. Shit was so fun. Totally an under rated and forgotten gem
Being a 36 year old man, it's quite a strange feeling for me to hear someone say "My dad used to play this game" about a game that I used to play. And yes, I have no children yet.
omg, that just took me back to memory lane. Thank you for reminding me this game existed, I used to play this game all the time in my ps2.
Shoot-y Thing Go Boom: The Game
I remember exactly where I was when I first played this game. It was a fair in Bakersfield, CA that had some Xbox’s set up to play Black and buy copies. Me and my buddy sat and played for way too long and came back to the booth like three times. Good day. Finally got a copy of my own and I will never get rid of it.
As a person who never played black and had a PC which a year prior had just released F.E.A.R, Black felt like it was the consoles answer to FEARs gunfu.
F.E.A.R. is most definitely the better game, but console vs PC in that generation was a big unfair advantage. Black was a good attempt at what FEAR excelled in
@@MrHammers certainly it was definitely not a fair comparison and I do remember I was very interested in black when it came out. Apparently Sean Murray From hello games was a creative director I think on this game.
I played the game on Xbox when it came out. I remember how addicted I was to the the gun play. I looked for a sequel that never came 😢
my childhood. I can't remember if i had the full game or a demo, but this game blew my mind as it was a whole new experience and i didn't even make it that far through i just kept replaying the first few sections over and over again
I won't lie, your reviews get me interested to try out all these PS2 games that I missed out on. They're what got me to try out Urban Chaos: Riot Response and Area 51. Now I'm interested to try out Black for myself.
BTW that opening bit about renting videos and games got me nostalgic like you wouldn't believe. Especially since my local rental store went out of business in 2020. Thanks Covid.
Cheers dude!
I will never forget the heartbeat sound. Also, the silenced Glock level was the best mission of any game I have played. So much fun. And the sounds were awesome.
This is backwards compatible on Xbox by the way!!! Brought back so many memories. That and hunter the reckoning
it's wild how well the graphics hold up in that version
My uncle worked on this game as an artist of some sort. I am very proud of him being a part of such a great game!
You forget About the Soundtrack, its was Really amazing, And Theres a lot of details In this game, Like When theres no Enemies Around you, The reload was kinda Slower like he Enjoying it.
This game was my “grownup” shooter. It was what the modern CoD single player campaigns want to be. Beautiful,loud and fun to just tear shit apart.
I remember the day I bought this game. Standing in line at game stop, talking to other people buying games. I think we all lived through the best days of video games and this game ties me to those memories.
Ah, nam, forgot about this game. Remember bits and pieces of the game play, but do recall loving it and playing it loads. Still got my PS2 and games, so might have to dust it off one day... Cheers.
Fun fact, apparently Sean Murray of No Man Sky directed the game.
This games was ahead of it's time for PS2 era
I still have my first copy of this game. It truly was something back then & it really deserves a sequel.
Heard this was good when it came out, never bought it, then eventually bought in on xboxone as a back compat game, never finished it, but this video makes me want to go back to it.
I remember playing the demo of this game for the first time at a local fair. It was in one of those big playstation truck
Black, Red Faction and Battlefield Bad Company did the same thing with destructible environments as F.E.A.R did with enemy AI - it led us to think at the time that future FPSs would become absolutely crazy in those regards.
Now look at what we have _over 15 years_ later - nothing that even comes close to those old games. The FPS genre didn't evolve from there. It didn't even just stagnate. It moved backwards and only had a few cosmetic surgeries, thanks to hot garbage like Modern Warfare.
They tried improving on it and bringing similar systems to more graphically demanding games. It didn't really work. PhysX, for example, was a fad for a while before devs just gave up on it because it just wasn't worth the performance hit. It was far more efficient graphically speaking to focus on stuff like tessellation or detailed decals and keep destruction to things that didn't melt CPUs. And then there's the problem with balancing for multiplayer games. Stuff like Bad Company worked because you couldn't destroy absolutely everything, just some buildings and it wasn't all that random. It's not like you could litter the battlefield with rubble, instead a building would basically just change into a destroyed building and that was really it. BF4 took the same idea and made it bigger with levolution.
The Red Faction games were really some of the only few that had entirely destructible environments (besides things like Minecraft), but those games were built with that idea in mind. It's core to the gameplay.
Playing through this classic currently. Emulated on a S24 Ultra with a Backbone controller, at x2.5 native resolution. It has never looked better and is absolutely epic on the go 👌🏻🎮 💥
makes me smile knowing this great game is still living in the hearts of many and not forgotten. it's such a shame how EA just abandoned this fantastic game
I remember just getting baked with my brother and playing this awesome game all night long sometimes i wish i could go back to the them days.
Black is one of those games that, once you get older, you realize it's not the best game of the world, neither "one of the bests". It's just a good and fun game to play, and that's ok because there's some kind of charm in games like this, games that no matter when you play, they're always a good time.
Yes I absolutely loved this game back In the day. I just happened to buy it without knowing a thing about it. And we played the shit out of this
COD isn’t even that good anymore nether Battlefield or other today’s FPS, this game is actually a hidden gem
i used to love this game when it came out. lol
This game was crazy hard. The max difficulty setting had so many side objectives that you had to get to finish the level.
The Cinematics were some of the best at the time, It blew my mind when I was a kid. Made ya feel like you were part of a hollywood movie
Thanks for making this. Im an elder gamer and I thought everyone else had forgotten this banger. First time a game made me feel like the guns were tangible, kinetic and dangerous.
i remember playing this on my ps2 when it came out for hours on end. my brother would be in the same room listening to nelly, chingy, cassie, the game. man. what an era.
I'm 48 and i was OBSESSED with BLACK, I got so good at that game, it was so FUN! I miss those days but I'm still shooting lots of digital guns everyday so i guess all is well. GREAT VIDEO!!!!!! I'd love to see a remake of Black.
Black was good but I also liked Cold Winter. Best ragdoll and dismemberment on PS2.
loved this game. thought it was awesome to see this video up on my feed, thank you for the upload
I still have my copy from 2007. An amazing but frustratingly wild game
Dude I remember this game. I played this so much back in the day with my best friend. It was so much fun, thanks for the walk down memory lane!
hugely underrated game imo. it combined a realist setting with stylised, hyper realistic violence. it's easy to reduce it to its fundamental gameplay mechanics and encounter design and write it off as just another shooter. but sometimes form has a function all of its own.
Hey Hammer, congrats for hitting 100k subs. I do love your contents and games you’d picked. Keep doing what you are doing man. Cheers!
Thanks dude!
Black was COD 4 before COD 4!!!
Blast from the past, loved this game back on PS2
alright, i love Black but i gotta disagree with the title
fucking TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, man
I respect the counter, great game
this was the last game I played on PS2 right before getting a PS3. loved it.
How come Ps2 just released banger after banger and I can barely find a decent game to play on PS5 😂. Games were better back in the day.
Usually I get triggered when I see people refer to things that aren't music or music that rocks as "bangers". But for this FPS, I will allow it.
Amen brother.
I miss this so much
Best game to ever grace a conceal. Played hours on that game.
Dude my brain completely forgot about black. Omg man you’re the goat for doing a video on this
The problem is not the graphics but it is not much fun after a while. A game like ghost recon and rainbow six never get boring because the enemy ai is so good and there is always a feeling extreme tension
4:25 This oddly sounds really romantic! Great video, BTW!
Loved playing this game with my dad before on the og xbox before he'd have to go to work. Good old days. Also the sequence of fighting in the graveyard, and shooting down the gravestones to shoot enemies hiding behind them blew my mind.
I was probably about 9 or 10, and I was messing around with my dad's ps2 and the cabinet the games were in, and found black. This was during the ps3-ps4 Era. Black was the first game I popped in and tried on the ps2. It blew my mind how good it looked for a console I was too young to remember playing when it came out. I then went on to play ssx tricky, okami, dynasty warriors 4, and so on. Every day I wish that ps2 still worked. Very few games were as consistently fun as the games I found in that cabinet.
What a great game this was. I replayed this so many times. The infinite ammo and m203 grenade launcher on the m16 were really fun to once you unlocked it.
I used to play this so much when I was in middle school. What a time
As i was watching the video, i realised mrhammers has literally described all that i felt playing while this game as a kid, i absolutely replayed the fck outta this game on my ps2 to the point where i slept less and less to just play more and more, my father had to take away ps2 for almost a week until i started acting good just to get it back and taken away again, this time for a month lol, i was addicted to this game, this game and COD3 is where my love for FPS shooters started. even tho i played cod1, cod2, the big red one also, these two just hit different, too realistic at that time, Cod3 effectively made me a fckin American soldier of ww2 for quite some time hahah. I was mind blown by the graphics of these games(also punisher the game) at the time. this video gave me a ton of nostalgia of the good ol ps2 days, thanks for the great video man. made me instantly subscribe
funny story: i played this game when i was a kid on the ps2 and didn't know much English then so i bought it by chance because the picture looked cool, i gave the ps2 to a cousin with all the games when the ps3 became popular, every now and then i occasionally looked for it to play it on a ps2 emulator just for nostalgia sake and i couldn't find it with any search query, your video solved a 17 years mystery, thanks 🙏😂
My god that bridge level!
When I jacked up the 5.1…
Thor never got as loud