Amazon.co.uk Review If you can play Operation Winback for more than five minutes without thinking of Metal Gear Solid then you're either suffering from amnesia or probably refer to all video games as "Space Invaders" and have only turned the PS2 on by accident thinking it was the VCR. It's kind of a cross between the stealthy shoot-'em-up bits in Metal Gear Solid and a more arcade style game like Time Crisis. Unfortunately this means it's Time Crisis without the non-stop action and Metal Gear Solid without the variety and complex storyline. Oh, and the main bad guy is called Kenneth and the elite commando team to which you belong is known as SCAT.
Although Operation Winback is less than the sum of its parts it's still fun. Hiding behind crates and jumping out to shoot unsuspecting bad guys is undoubtedly entertaining, even if the slightly fiddly controls sometimes get in the way. Unfortunately there's not much more to the game than that so it does get rather repetitive--although the various multiplayer modes do make up for this to some degree. If you can't wait for Metal Gear Solid 2 then this is a reasonable but not outstanding stopgap. --David Jenkins
Customer Reviews:
A Review of Operation WinbackFebruary 8, 2003 Michael Leonard(RUISLIP, MIDDX United Kingdom) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant game with lots of modes to do and lots of things to unlock including people and levels. There is a Story Mode which is like an adventure on it there lots of different stages in fact there are 31 stages. There is also a BOT Mode which is a mode where if you have two players you work as a team to beat the Terrorists either by yourselves our with a bit of help from your team-mates who are controlled by the computer,but if you play one player there is a challenge. there is also a training session that you can go through it is called Tutourial.On the games where you can unlock players you will unlock players with odd but extremely good weapons.the guns that you can get are: Handgun, Rocket-Launcher, machine gun, shotgun and lots of other secret and hidden weapons.
