Chili Con Carnage Comments by Quintin Smith

Is it the worst videogame title ever? It's certainly up there IMHO.

best intro to any game. ever.

Massive racial stereotyping or just a bit of semi-racist horseplay: discuss.

/runs

Don't you mean best videogame title ever?

Music thing sounds very cool. The big consol version never really managed to hold my attention though.

"Is it the *best* videogame title ever? It's certainly up there IMHO."

Fixed ;)


Seriously, how could you not like that title?

Apples and Oranges, I know, but I actually enjoyed this more than GTA: VCS.

the title is GREAT! Think I might get this. Sounds fun.

Total Overdose was racist as hell. Hated every bit of it.

nothing to do with serious sam?

I'd give this -2 points for the name alone. It's neither clever nor funny. It's just dumb.

The whole GAME is naff. In a delightfully entertaining way. I found it kind of a guilty pleasure, but it made me laugh.

I found the original on X-Box fun enough, only let down slightly by a clunky feeling driving engine, but this sounds like it would fit in well on the PSP.

*orders*

In my book, the basic mechanic of shooting people ought to be the challenging/fun bit of a shooting game, not performing ridiculous stunts/combos/hatcatching (cf. F.E.A.R.) From the sound of it, it's more a cipher for hand-eye co-ordination than a shooter per se. Yes, all games are to some extent, but usually they have more of a world and atmosphere to disguise this. I for one want immersive experiences, not text saying "SPICY MOVE!!!11one" and giving what I've just done a cool made-up-on-the-spot name every time I kill someone. Fine, make the combo business an option, but basing the whole game around it guarantees I'll not want to touch it.

Plus, if I don't hear the word Gringo for another 70 years it'll still be too soon. I couldn't care less if it's a racist stereotyping, it's dull as hell, massively overused and needs to disappear from games purely on those grounds if no others.

The music thing sounds good in theory, but 1) 97.3% of all game music sucks ass and deserves turning off instantly, and 2) given the theme of the game, it's bound to be that shitty tedious fast mexican guitar stuff (Mariachi? Is that the style or just the musicians?) and 3) I bet you can't turn it off, so basically it's a wasted effort.

More racism in games I say.

@YourMessageHere

As you say, this type of game doesn't really interest you, so why did you bother posting?

It's like me posting how I hate JRPG's on the FFXII forum, doesn't mean other don't get a kick out of it.

FPS's are no longer just a genre, it's become a collection of sub genres. So trying to criticize this game for being a 3rd person, action, comedy shooter rather than being a 1st person, immersive, epic seems completely without point.

@ YourMessagehere

Wow that's one of the most serious slagging-off-game-before-even-trying-it posts I've ever read! You don't like this kind of game then fair enough - BUY SOMETHING ELSE.

As for the game music - its actually superb. Soudntrack songs are very good Mexican hiphop and the interactive music is inspired by the trailer music for Kill Bill ("Battle Without Honor or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotei) and is super cool!

I bought CCC last week when it came out and I love it - I'm even playing it in my lunch breaks. Its unpretentious and fun and if you like this kind of game (which I obviously do) you wouldn't be disappointed. I think 7 / 10 is a fair score and generally agree with the review.

By the way (I'm suprised no-one has said it yet) -

Mex Payne

:-P

"But amigo, if you're content with the game equivalent of a bartender that'll flash you a grin minus a few teeth and slide over a big glass of cheap tequila, Chili Con Carnage will make you one very happy gringo."

haha, great ending

Great game. Great title. Just what the PSP needs, quick, intense born-to-be-on-a-hand-held game!

"What cheese doesn't belong to you?"


"Nacho Cheese"

Is it the worst videogame title ever?

Wargasm.

Its unpretentious .... GENIUS!

I really love the game. It's pure unpretentious fun.
As for racism, it's a game. I find it more racist games like ghost recon, or Rainbow six that try to deal with storys based on real countries and people.

If you like Z-movies, you'll love it.

I loved Total Overdose, it was very tongue in cheek and Z movie and i adored it for it's sheer playfulness. I'll be picking this up too, sounds like more of the same but portable. Spicy Move, Eidos. I Like it. :)

Title? crap? Pah! Cheer up, Brian.
The game doesn't take itself seriously at all and the title reflects that.