Customer Reviews

NPPL Championship Paintball 2009

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

NPPL Championship Paintball 2009 was a disappointment for me. I suppose it is obvious that Activision didn't want to spend a whole lot of time with this game but there is too much repitition.

Pros
-Gives you the on-field paintball feel
-Decent gun and upgrade availability

Cons
-Graphics aren't great.
-Super repetitive
-Controls are super dodgy and unresponsive at times.
-Poor multiplayer
-Poor career setup

Overall, this game wasn't worth the $30.00 I spent on it. It seems to be as sketchy as the early 360 games but it is about the only paintball game available. It would have been nice to play something other than the same old speed ball fields. Some random woods or house matches would have been a refreshing change-up.

The career mode is very repetitive. You go through I would guess 40-50 venues doing either capture the flag or elimination. The game is quite easy (granted I only played on the normal mode, not the hard one) since the AI is downright dumb. Where this game really shines is online. You can play in all the venues you play during carrer but then they have some woodshed? fields. I think that is the name, I forget, but anyway, they are like open-field fields where you can play CTF or elimination as well. The Woodshed? fields are much larger than the other venues and are very cool. The game is pretty fast paced, the guns can all be upgraded, but there are no 'superguns' that have like 100% accuracy or anything like that. Everything seems balanced and even for the most part.

In summation, if you do not have a GOLD Xbox account this game will not give you much in my opinion, but if you plan to go online and play it is well worth the money. Rest assured that as much as I was pleasantly surprised, there is ample online activity with this game, the longest I have ever had to wait to get a game going was 7-8 minutes, with most started in well under 5.

I like this game, it is a lot like the Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd except there is no split screen playing in the NPPL game. That is a little disappointing as I had a lot of fun playing the game with a friend on one console. Wish that they had that feature as well. Haven't unlocked all the gear yet either but it is good to be able to get a decent marker pretty quickly in the game.

If you like paintball, you will like this game.

fast delivery, appears to be fun. This was bought for a Christmas gift. My grandson really liked it. I am sure he will be telling his friends how much he liked it.

This game is definitely aimed toward the paintball players.
The Good.
The good of this game is that is portrays a paintball match quite well. It offers various real life equipment like bob longs or invert minis to v force face mask. It is tight, kinda fast paced paintball action. Its good to take that itch off when you cannot go play real paintball. That is pretty much it for this game.
Speed ball is pretty fun. It varies from elimination, capture the flag or middle flag to win the game. And the players vary from 1 to 1, 3 vs 3, 5 vs 5 and 7 vs 7. Your team has a set of skills that can be upgraded as well.
You don't have to sit out once your out in career mode. Once you are out, you are played in the eyes of your teammate to play as him (no girls in this game?).
Online. This game may have shined online game, offering elimination, customizable maps, but right now, no one is really playing it. The day I got it I was the only one online and the next 5 people were online.
The Bad.
Since it is a paintball game, it is not going to be as polished as a blockbuster game. The graphics are plain, players and environment lack detailed graphics, not bad but could of used more time. And despite not so polished graphics, this game does include a lot of load screens.
The AI is not the best. I started out by playing pro (the hardest difficulty setting) and even there have not had any real trouble winning, I would lose a few at first because I was getting used to the game play and now, it is too easy and win games in under a minute.

The game is repetitive as stated, you can change breaks but its pretty much the same thing. Its fun but for your average gamer it may be cumbersome.

The sound, could have been better. The tutorials (the hardest levels of the game, seriously) offer the voices of team dynasty. They sound bored and kinda forced into doing the voice overs. the music is fine, but I would have liked simple dramatic music like from gears of war or halo. And the voices your teams shouts are so repetitive. "we are so awesome" and two others are all the phrases your teams says when you win.

No one plays online much anymore.

If you are looking for an okay paintball game, trying to get that itch off if you cannot play today, this is your game.
Other than that, if you are the hardcore gamer, this is not for you.
You are better off playing those blockbuster games online than this.
But other than that.
Its an okay game.
Hopefully future paintball games get more attention and time taken into their development.

I have both of the Greg Hastings games for the xbox and I also have this for the WII but on the Wii its hard to play. The biggest negative I have on this game is it plays like you are on a 3 mile field. At the start you can hardly see any of the other team. Then once you get a few of the other teams players out its mission impossible to find the last 2 guys. the AI is a little better than the older games but the graphics don't improve much. I enjoy the game but I still like the hastings games better.

Multi Player Option would be nice...not much online through 360 to update and keep current.

This game is 100% repetitive. Most of the different locations look exactly the same as the last match you played on, theres no skill needed to this game, its a terrible buy, as the lighting on this game sucks so badly you cant distinguish a guy from the bunker. There is a multiplayer mode. Saying that I tried it, there's maybe, I don't know 6 people ever! playing the multi-player, you'll never get into a match, and its impossible to send your friends invites to this game. 2/5

This was purchased for my 22 y/o son, who is very active into paintball. I am, of course, his biggest fan! He played this all day on Christmas Eve, and a niece of mine also enjoyed it and she is 15 y/o. I plan on playing soon, against my son...thumbs up to this one!!!

Purchased this game for my nephews who are 20 and 22. They love it!