While the enemy AI does a pretty good job of standing in place and firing at anything that walks by, sometimes they get catatonic and do nothing. Now, you donâ€™t actually have to bring the flag back to your own side – just touching it is good enough to win the game and dump you back to the eXtreme screen. The game contains a whopping (cough) five maps, where the goal is to capture the flag. Still, the blotchy visuals could be forgiven if the gameplay was the least bit engrossing. This means that thereâ€™s no 3D acceleration, and the dated graphics feature pixelicious walls and horribly animated sprite-based characters, and simple, blocky level design. Graphically, Paintbrawl is horribly out of date – it uses the ancient Build engine that powered such games as Duke Nukem 3D. Once youâ€™ve equipped all eight members of your paintball team, you can hop into the actual game, and let the eXtremeness begin.Īnd this is where the game starts to reek.

When you start the game, youâ€™re presented with a seriously ugly “eXtreme Screen,” where you can start a pick-up match, practice on empty maps, begin a tournament, or search for the embarrassing typos (the description of the EXC-68 states how “itâ€™s expansion chamber design letâ€™s you shoot more balls per tank”). Nevertheless, I was more than ready to give this bargain-basement title a chance.

EXtreme Paintbrawl proudly classifies itself as “the first non-violent 3D shooter” – which sort of defeats its own purpose.

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