Advanced Search Beta »
Basic Search Fields
ShellShock 2: Blood Trails PC
ShellShock 2: Blood Trails Image
Metascore
40 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 12 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.3 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
Rate this:
  • Summary: ShellShock 2: Blood Trails is a violent, first-person, survival horror game set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Gameplay centers on the use of psychological horror and fear, relying on the power of suggestion, mood, tension and foreshadowing - implying the notion of danger, potential danger, imminent danger, and horrifying acts that have or are implied to have occurred or will come to pass. On course for war torn Vietnam, a plane carrying a top-secret cargo known only as Whiteknight is lost over the uncharted jungles of Cambodia. The special ops squad sent in to retrieve it disappear wtihout trace. Until, a month later, one of them walks out. Something in the darkness has driven him insane... Something from the darkness has followed him out. [Eidos Interactive]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 12
  3. Negative: 7 out of 12
  1. GameSpot
    55
    ShellShock 2: Blood Trails spices up Vietnam with a liberal application of zombies, but it does nothing to liven up the generic shooter gameplay.
  2. IGN
    46
    A budget title and it shows. The visuals, level design, AI, and just about anything else you can think of can't match up with the top-tier first-person shooters. On top of that, you only get 10 brief stages and no multiplayer options.
  3. PC Zone UK
    32
    If you want something to put on the box, Mr. Marketing Man, try this: "This is so bad, it is like beating old ladies to death with hammers." [May 2009, p.77]
    All this publication's reviews

See all 12 Critic Reviews

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. ConnorM
    9
    I think this game is awesome. It has an awesome storyline, but what saddens me is the graphics and the gore. Hardly no gore (lots of blood though). Anyways, I love this game.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. JoeyD
    6
    A long, long time ago game developers decided to begin using war games as an excuse to say no more war and hence worth we get HFPS(Historical First Person Shooter) now this would be fine in viedo games if the Game Developers would auctually make a game not based on WW2 or Modern Warfare. Now this, horrid dread of a WW2/ Modern Warfare plague lasted four years before Shell Shock 2 came out. Now! Now we finally have a game in between the two wars and some actual creativity in the gaming industry... Oh wait, of course it has to have fricking zombies. Sigh, I hate the fact that no one can be realistic with video games anymore and SS2 was a good example of this. I remember going to my local game rental store and renting this out in hopes that it would give me some hope of people being more creative in the gaming industry. Saddly, my hope was crushed when I found out that this game of course like anything else is a boo-hoo anti-war zombie shooter. I was severely disappointed by how all games with the word Vietnam in any shape or form has to be a cry baby party about how it was such a bad war and all that crap. I figured that this game would make me happy but like many other was disapointed to find it's game devs had jumped on the boat of hippies on the second stop of anti-war.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. D.S.
    0
    Horrifyingly bad. There is, absolutely no reason whatsoever, to play this game. I, in fact got this for Approx. $2 in a Steam pack deal and I can tell you, I am truly missing those two bucks dearly and want them back now.The game starts out boring but just a little atmospheric. It all goes way downhill after that. You are thrown into an abysmally ugly looking forest to tunnel shoot dumb AI and to make your way to a point B. For the rest of the game thats basically what you do. Tunnel shoot braindead AI. Not to mention, I got horrible motion sickness from this game and migranes from listening to abrasive dialouge and watching hilariously clunky animations.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

See all 4 User Reviews

Related Articles

  1. Games

    Ranked: Best and Worst Horror Videogames

    Ranked: Best and Worst Horror Videogames Image
    Published: October 25, 2010
    Our Horror Week continues with a look at some of the best and worst horror videogames ever released, from "BioShock" to "Left 4 Dead." Plus, vote on your all-time favorite horror game series.
    More »

Recommended Products

  1. ShellShock: Nam '67

    ShellShock: Nam '67 Image

  2. Conflict: Vietnam

    • Release Date: Oct 5, 2004
    • Platform: PC
    Conflict: Vietnam Image

  3. Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger

    • Release Date: Aug 25, 2009
    • Platform: PC
    Raven Squad: Operation Hidden Dagger Image

Current PC Games

Full List »
  1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
    Metascore: 94
  2. Minecraft
    Metascore: 93
  3. Batman: Arkham City
    Metascore: 91
  4. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
    Metascore: 90
  5. Battlefield 3
    Metascore: 89
  6. Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
    Metascore: 86
  7. Bastion
    Metascore: 86
  8. Star Wars: The Old Republic
    Metascore: 85
  9. Trine 2
    Metascore: 84
  10. Saints Row: The Third
    Metascore: 84
  11. L.A. Noire: The Complete Edition
    Metascore: 83
  12. Anno 2070
    Metascore: 83
  13. To the Moon
    Metascore: 82
  14. Dead Island
    Metascore: 80
  15. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
    Metascore: 79
  16. Rage
    Metascore: 79
  17. Serious Sam 3: BFE
    Metascore: 72
  18. Stronghold 3
    Metascore: 47
  19. Postal III
    Metascore: 25
  20. FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction
    Metascore: 22
All Current Games »