So BLACK's hardest difficulty is BLACK OPS Mode. You need to complete all of the secondary objectives and blow up everything, pretty much forcing you to memorize every pick-up in the game. And no medkits hold onto on your person to heal you with the push of a button. But it is so difficult, that they give you an M16A2 with an underbarrel grenade launcher... and platinum weapons. Which means INFINITE AMMO for all weapons ! They knew it was going to be super difficult, but they still made it fun.

Criterion is still active today; they’re making the next Need for Speed title, which is set to be released in 2021. If anything, it’s the game’s spiritual successor, Bodycount, that’s more fit for a ‘Wha Happen?’ episode. With Raycevick’s video on the game and his covering of its troubled development, there might not be a need for one, but the material for it is there. There’s also a brief mention of the cancelled Black 2 in there. Also, you can skip the cutscenes in Black, but you’ll have to have watched them at least once to do so. The character you play as is Sgt. Jack Kellar, if you were wondering.

18:05 Matt poked out the window glass by accident; the silencers and muzzles of weapons actually have collision physics with stuff like windows.

Hi, weird gun person checking in: Yes, you can screw a suppressor on like that, but the barrel has to be specially threaded to allow it. I'm more weirded out by the ejection port (where the empty cases come out) being on the left side, but they probably wanted to have the spent brass flying across the screen to "look cool".

Holy crap, a CoD-like title that has a shotgun with the range effect of a real shotgun and not a blunderbuss?

I appreciate that you shine light on the largely forgotten games of the sixth gen. I always felt like that was the best time for traditional publisher made games, before DLC and Live Services, before every game needed to have multiplayer or be some padded out 100 hour experience...I miss video games...

I still remember playing those first missions over and over again. And it has so many amazing details. If you throw grenades into the top floors of the first few buildings, you can see the smoke and debris blast out the windows of each consecutive floor below as the rooms collapse in on one another, loved the hell out of it. Although tbh, I cannot remember a single thing about those cutscenes.. legitimately didnt know they were even there.

Depending on the AK model whether or not the barrel is threaded yes u can SCREW THAT ON

Perfect example of a game that while it sure as hell doesn't reinvent the genre, it absolutely delivers on the sound, visual and destructive presentation. Even today, those firefights are fucking baller. I can't recall any other game that blows out every window on a building floor when you toss an explosive inside.

Used to play this game a lot as a kid when we lost the Halo 2 disc

I can't wait for the sequel on the Series X "BLACKED".

This game was way ahead if his time. The tech demo i had behind close doors on EA World in The Netherland even showed more destructable enviorment. Realy enjoyed playing this game back in the day, i still have the Xbox version in my collection.

"Weird gun people in the comments, let me know if" is the first half of the most dangerous incantation on KZfaq, gotta respect the moxie

I remember this absolutely blowing my shit off back ye old day.

My dad missed child support payments to play this game. I see why now.

I would love to see Matt go secret hunting in this game and record his reactions to the documents talking about US government war crimes, the Illuminati, and UFOs.

"weird gun people in the comments" Found the Canadian

Black, in my opinion, is one of my favorite PS2 games of all time. Right up there with Psi-Ops and a few 007 games.

This game is one of my favorites. I'd love an HD remaster on PC.

Battlefield: Bad Company would be a good follow up

The suppressor (silencer) question you can just screw it on any gun with a threaded barrel but the complete silence of it is not a thing for most guns the main reason being that if the ammo you are using is not subsonic and as a result weaker since it's traveling slower its still gonna be loud regardless just less loud than it would normally be. The most quite result you can achieve would be a subsonic .22 and even then it's noticeable in close quarters.

Have you ever tried out URBAN CHAOS: RIOT RESPONSE?

I loved this stupid, silly game. Everything about the guns outside if names and overall appearance were exaggerated, because the design mentality followed the idea that the guns were the real stars of the game. Fun fact/Trivia: Every gun in the game is, effectively, a left hand variant. They all fling their brass to the left, despite the fact the player character is shooting with the right hand, because it was supposed to look cool and make shooting feel more visceral. In reality, this would be very impractical. Nobody wants brass flying towards their face, especially hot spent brass.

first FPS I ever played 😊

One of my favorite games of all time. Me and my dad would crank up the speakers on the old CRT TV to the max so the entire living room sounded like a warzone.

One of the games that as a child I always saw on the shelves of shops, but never played

You are so right. It was soooooo over hyped before it came out and then the reviews were just ok.

Camp Xray is code for Guantanamo

A cool part of this game is you unlock the sliver weapons and get unlimited ammo

I wouldn't change ANYTHING in black, loved it the way it was.

This was by far my favorite game for the Xbox. It was ahead of its time. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

"I think this game pre-dates iron sights?" Medal of Honor would like to have a word with you.

I'd be hyped to see how well (most likely badly) "urban chaos riot response" aged

HOLY SHIT MAN. This was my favorite fps game for a long time. Mainly because of the sounds of the guns and the bullet holes. PS I still have my OG Xbox with the weapon of mass destruction controller.

Duuuuuude, this game's childhood. I find it still holds up, and I really wish they would bring it back. Its so good

This game looks so good back in the day, one of the first shooters with this level of in game destruction.

9:49. Why yes, Matt. Yes you can attach a suppressor to an AK47. you just need a muzzle piece that’s compatible for one.

I had honestly forgotten that this game exists, and that we had a copy

Oddly enough, the thing that always stuck out with this game, for me, was there is no jump button. The world was filled with knee-high obstacles too.

Game has the Counterstrike issue where the charging handles of the guns are on the wrong side

Been waiting for this one. Thanks Matt

Cold Winter on the PS2, some sick headshots for the time

One of the loudest games I ever played. Bang! Kaboom! :)

Loved this game. Had my tv hooked up to my stereo. Gun shots sounded amazing

I seem to be one of VERY few that liked the story.

This game was a blast to play through back in the day. The videogame equivalent to a cheesy 80s action movie where there is no story, just ridiculous over-the-top action

i remember playing and loving this game so much on the ps2! been thinking about it again recently and it's funny to see you doing a video on it conveniently

11:35 ive always thought that george takai bit was just from DBZA. my whole life is different now.

It definitely doesn't predate grenade cooking - the original Killzone had that, complete with little diegetic lights on the grenades for the countdown.

hello, weird gun person here, yeah aks get threaded barrels, so you could screw a suppressor on. Kinda pointless due to supersonic crack noise from the ammo, and no you're not gonna take a pistol suppressor over to an ak. Even if you had subsonic ammo for your ak, the supressor would wear out and stop working after like one reload

Me and my friend love playing Black on the OG XBOX, and we always play Wolfmother songs, since it let us play our personal songs on it. Plus I I have both the XBOX and PS2 versions.

This game is very underrated and only to think that this game came out in 2006, a year before the Infinity ward and treyarch madness.

iron sights were a thing by the time Black came out, but it was still quite new. I believe the first time I used iron sights in a console FPS was Perfect Dark Zero on the 360. I skipped Black because my OG Xbox was starting to act up by the time I got a 360 and kinda turned my dumb teenage nose up to "last gen" stuff.

While "Black" is dead, now we have "Blacked" which is much better

-Can we call you Uncle Blackie? -No.

Bodycount was the spiritual sequel to Black.

The bullets and gun sounds made me replay this game so many times lol great game

Black was one of the last games coming out for PS2 and Original Xbox before PS3 and XB360 came out.

I remember this game. Played the PS2 version, thought it was very cool.

I have really fond memories of black! I remember it was like that last xbox exclusive before the 360 and ps3 and wii. I love the level that was covered in landmines! You could make a huge chain reaction of explosions and that was always a highlight for me.

Give Bodycount a try. It's a spiritual successor to Black with a nice tumultuous wha happened style development.

I loved this game. Played it on the PS2.

This game was way ahead of its time back in the day. I played so many hours of it, and it was sad because no one else I knew had played it or even heard of it.

Ghosts 'n Goblins: get the knife BLACK: find the shotgun also BLACK: we need a LOUDENER on SPAS-12

I remember they said the guns are supposed to be the star of this game. In the background of the main menu we have a left-handed ak-like thing being fired right handed. The bolt holds open on an empty mag, remains open as the empty mag is removed, and goes forward automatically when a loaded mag is inserted. The user then manually racks the bolt to reveal that a round was not chambered when the bolt dropped. That is the weirdest ak derivative I have ever seen. Does the fact that the developers were uksian partly explain this?

This game just looks incredible for its time!

God. I loved this game. Back in the day the destruction feels that happened during the missions were so so satisfying.

Matt you should play "Urban Chaos: Riot Response" So much fun..

Loved this game

I remember seeing this game and SOCOM (don’t remember which one) at Walmart all the time and I’m not surprised that it’s this kind of game

Aaaahhhh yes. The Xbox one. I remember those...

One of the games I usually play once per year on PS2. I just enjoy playing this particular one over and over again for absolute no reason. 🤣

I still love this game

I love how Matt just safely walks through the graveyard and babbles on while the lady in the comms is like "OMG TAKE COVER THERES A SNIPER".

I remember this and Urban Chaos being my favs ps2 FPS 😮

I had a demo disk with this on it. I played the hell out of that.

“And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything. Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything.” - Edward Vedder, on the game Black

I miss this game so much

This has some roguelike elements... the fear of repeat the levels from the beginning and rewatch those movies...

I loved this game!

I remember the ad campaign for this

the magnum was a beast in this game

BLACK looks like an early PS3/X360 game which runs on PS2 and XBOX.

"I don't mind that explosions go off for no reason, but I need a reason why." ---Whaaat?!

I never played this game. That's why Channels like this are awesome - let's discover a new game in 2020 that came out during the Xbox, PS2 & GameCube era :D

Had this for ps2. It fun

I used to play the hell out of this! :D But I had the PS2 version, which was fun too.

I hear Naszran Town is the kind of place that makes a bum feel like a king, and makes a king feel like some nutty, cuckoo, super king.

Wish they'd port this to steam/make it M+KB compatible. Fun lil' nugget of a game, flaws and all.

i absolutely loved this game when i was a kiddo. especially those silver infinite ammo weapons 😂

Hey Matt, weirdo gunman here to answer your question about slapping silencers on guns, if it'd just work? Short answer: Not really. You just kinda ruined a perfectly good suppressor. Long answer: If it were to work, that means you came into the mission, with an AK-47, with subsonic ammo, and no suppressor. To make sure you do not damage the silencer and quiet the gun down properly, you need subsonic ammunition. Subsonic ammo is not as loud, nor is it as fast, so less damage, but from a rifle and at those ranges, it doesn't matter to an unarmored unaware target.

You can throw the grenade a lil bit farther. You just have to look up and throw it.

I still love that this game let you play your music IN the game, i remember passing the whole thing blasting good ol' Godsmack, Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold feeling totally badass, until my xb went to the next life... Lucky me, i found my old ps2 copy to blast some things again...! But i still miss the music tho... :'(

8:23 *Hears "got 1/3 black males" in the background ಠ~ಠ looks at video. OH okay!*

I love this game, i would speed run it all the time

One of my favorite games of all time! Xbox version was the best due to having custom soundtracks. The Matrix trilogy soundtrack here I come! I used to play it with my Matrix soundtracks.

1st gun pr0n game, so hype

So there was this normal KZfaqr, right? And then *BAM, BLACK!!!!* *BLACK IS HAPPENING!!!*

Black was the first game on the ps2 I played that I remember wanting to go back and beat the game just because that and god of war

Very good game...short and sweet.