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Description: Review, by Martin Taylor: "I wanted so much more from this initially promising arcade-style diversion from the norm. Unfortunately it wasn't to be." [Score: 4 out of 10]
Action Bass Review • Reviews • PSOne • Eurogamer.net Review - fishing on the PlayStation? Sounds like a killer game concept. No really! Upon loading Action Bass, I was introduced the title screen via dodgy arcade-style music, which assured me that this hopefully wasn't going to the mind-numbing snore-a-thon I had previously anticipated. Two gameplay options awaited me, Challenge or Free mode. I assumed that Challenge mode was to be just that, a challenge, and so I headed for the Free fishing mode in order to ease myself into the game. I was then given a choice of four fictitious fishing areas with some cute names (Jungle Bass brought a smile to my face… do you see? Jungle? Bass? Arf!), but each area had no discernible difference as to how the game is played, except for changes in scenery (muddy banks or reeds? Ohhh… I just don't know!). So, after I chose my locale, I faced the literally life-or-death decision of which lure I wanted to use. None of the lures had any statistics in order to help newcomers to the sport decipher which was the most appropriate to the their situation, so after deliberating for several tense seconds, I chose the pretty orange one. Now here's where the exciting stuff really started to happen. Presented with a nicely modelled fella standing in his boat holding his rod aloft, I could rotate his field of vision, which was focussed on a small pointer, around the lake. The snag was that I could only rotate the casting angle left and right, and not nearer or farther. What this meant was that I could only cast as far as my rod would allow, and not choose precisely where in the lake I wanted to fish. This surely wouldn't have been a hard thing to implement, and although not exactly a reputation-shattering omission, it's something that I felt was missing that clearly shouldn't have been.
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