Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball Max'd (Xbox, 2005)

Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball Max'd is probably the best paintball game on the market. If you like paintball, then you will like to play this game. There are some improvements over the old one. You can call out and tell your teammates where your opponents are. You can also tell them to move up, or attack. The game is also much more fun to play and doesn't get as repetitive as the old one. There are much more guns to choose from, but your teammates are all the same. It basically has the same graphics so no improvements there. Also, it is longer, and if you beat it, you can go to it on hard mode and play it again. Overall, if you like paintball, you should buy this game, or even if you just like shooting people, buy this game.

Greg Hasting's Tournament Paintball Max'd (Xbox) is an addictive first person shooter type game. It varies from other run-of-the-line games in its genre because it incorporates sport, instead of missions fighting terrorists/crime etc. Its style is fresh and entertaining...definately a good alternative to other sports games like NHL 2006 or FIFA.
Its gameplay is entertaining and captivating, but somewhat lacking. It is not the most realistic in its recreation of the sport itself, but is fun nonetheless. It has an awesome soundtrack that never seems to get old, but the side comments and remarks made by the announcer sure do.
It also incorporates the tournament style play that allows the user to earn cash, which can be used to buy gear, including markers, pants, and other necessities. However, there is an utter lack of good equipment, especially high quality paintball guns. It is clear to see who sponsored the game the most (Tippman). Tippman has like 5 markers available to buy, although they only offer a few different variations in real life. Well known brand names are noticibly absent from their small selection.
Though the game does have its weaknesses, but it is entertaining and worth purchasing for a mid-range price ($15-$35). It has made improvments over its predecessor, and I am certain that the next version will be one step closer to a perfect recreation of this glorious sport.

i bought this game trying to find a game more like the real thing (paintball) and this is the closest I have gotten without beaking out my ion and about 60 bucks in paint its a great first person shooter paintball style

Overall a good game there aren't to many other paintball games lol go ahead and rent it. You shouldn't be to dissapointed.

it is the coolest game i have ever played!! it has good grafics and it makes you feel like your really there i STRONGLY recomend getting this game you will never regret it

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the game play is awesome, the graphics are just like playing the real game. if you love paintball and can't always get to the area to play here is a cheap way to get the rush with out leaving your home. this game rocks. thanks again for such a great buy. you will not go wrong with this game.

Better than first edition.. the guns are newer models and you can build your own field. Great game for the price.

my fiance loves the game but on x-box 360 it freezes at the same point every time. i've heard this is a common problem with this game. you can play all day long online.

It is a great sequel to the original game. Lots of extras included. All pro characters have authentic gear. Great game! a must buy if you like paintball!

I bought the game for my grandson who is enjoying playing it every day. The purchase itself was excellent. Turnaround time was excellent.

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My son had been looking for this game for quite while in all of the video stores but couldn't find it. He was quite frustrated, so I mentioned that he should look for it on Ebay. He stated that they wouldn't have it either because the game wasn't being made anymore. Anyway, I looked on Ebay the next day for him and found several of them listed. Needless to say...he was very excited to hear that I had found it. I chose this particular seller because he has a good feedback score and seemed to care about his customers. It was an excellent & smooth transaction with great communication. My son is very pleased with his purchase.

WOW! I just played this game for the first time. After reading about it for weeks, I thought I would give it a try. I was not surprised, it was the best game out for paintball that I have ever played.
The live mode is the best. You can talk to your teammates and tell them positions just like in the real tournaments. The coolest feature of this game is the cheat mode, once your hit (and it's not in the head) you get a window that pops up giving you a chance to wipe off your hit and keep playing, but be careful! If your caught cheating (by not properly wiping off your hit) you will get a major penalty.

Speaking from years of tournament experience the boys at activision did a good job, and I know Greg Hastings (pro paintball player and founder of REDZ paintball gear, and now R7)was a huge part in the making of this games features.

Max’d was published by Activision and developed by WXP Inc. who also did The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings for Xbox. This is the same team that released the first Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball last year so they know what they have to build off.

Like the first version you build a character and start a career. You are forced to play tournament after tournament. There really is no story or environment developed. You just continue to play tournaments to collect cash to use at the store. You also receive experience points that allow you to improve your characters attributes. Game play can get a little boring as your only real motivating factor on going through the tournaments is to get enough cash to buy the top of the line gear in the game’s online store. You do feel driven to continue, to do better, to finish first and win the cash. After all, that is how you are going to get the cool stuff at the store! Take away the greed factor and you find yourself playing a first person shooter that tires out pretty quickly.

There are 29 different tournaments to play with 213 fields. That does keep it somewhat fresh. There are going to be a few fields that are too big, too small or too whatever for your particular taste but with so many fields to play you will find several you like as well. Along with the new fields Max’d offers you several new paintball markers to play with as well.

You can also choose to play online with Xbox’s Live network. This was the salvation of the original GHTP (Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball) with over 100,000 Xbox players spraying paint on Live. Online play adds vibrancy to a game that can seem to dredge along at times. The human element to the game is what makes paintball so fun in the first place. On Live you will feel the adrenaline flow and the actual excitement of Max’d will come out. The same fields that are available off line are there to play on Live. There are even a few more but I will get to that in a second.

Game play is further enhanced on Max’d by adding a breakout manager. This allows you to plan your team’s first moves out of the box. You can pick where your players are going to set up after the start whistle. The control does not stop there either. During the game you can still give orders to your players as well call out where the opponents are bunkering. Team orders are given by pointing and hitting a button or by voice command if you use the Communicator Headset (not included). WXE improved the AI of the game and players act smarter by hiding and moving to improved positions though the AI is not even close to the fun of playing human opponents.

A cool thing that the folks at WXE did was to add a custom field editor. Thank you! This does help to make the game a bit more addictive. You are able to build a field for tournament play available in the exhibition or Live modes of game play. The fields are based of size (3 to choose from) and you are able to select where to put bunkers. Before you finalize your design you are able to walk through the field or get a bird’s eye view of it.

Final Thought

Max’d all and all is a good game. The fun factor only lasted a few days for me and I was bored with it. I still play Max’d but the challenge of it is gone for me. Online play on Xbox’s Live network is the only thing saving Max’d from going to my local used game store on trade in.

Saw this game and thought my 11 yoa grandson might like. He tends to like pro sports games. He loves it!!!!

Game is amazing from a paintballer's point of view; to others, it may seem repetitive and boring. Being a paintballer, i enjoy this title very much. Although, i warn those who plan to play this on an Xbox 360. After the first few tournaments, the game freezes. (As of September 2009 at least; still waiting on a 360 update to fix this)

Recommended buy for all paintballers!

Got the game within a week, it works great. Although it does freeze on one loading screen, but i did some research and if you play it on xbox360 it freezes on that loading screen so I'll have to wait to play my xbox.

Thanks for the great deal.

Max'd was a big step up over the original GHPB, but it still has a lot of kinks to be worked out.

Just like the first game, you start with nothing and have to build up a tournament paintball team. As you progress through the tournaments, you earn experience and money to upgrade your skills and equipment.

For anyone who has played tournament paintball recently, this game shows its age in the outdated field stylings, but that's a minor detail.

The developers improved several flaws with the original game, allowing you more communication options with your teammates and adding a breakout manager to control where your teammates go off the break.

Unfortunately many of the quirks with this game that make it frustrating for someone who has played paintball competitively still exist.

All in all, its a fun game for a paintball player, but if you don't play, I can't see you finishing this game. It will lose its appeal long before you can play all the tournaments.

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This shooter is a low-frills simulation of tournament paintball. You compete in tournaments to win store credits which are used to purchase new equipment. Game-play is fundamentally different from other shooters in that you are facing an equal number of AI opponents on a roughly symmetrical, rectangular playing field and, while it takes only one hit to get eliminated, you are offered the chance to cheat, or "wipe", and stay in the game. The formats are either center-flag, two-flag or simple elimination. Just like in real life the paintballs arc and have a good bit of spread, though shot groupings get tighter with better equipment.

While at the core it is a repackaging of the first game, there are some major improvements over the original GHTP.

#1 The Breakout Manager: The breakout manager allows the player to pre-determine to which bunkers his or her teammates will go to off the break. In the original GHTP the AI controlled teammates went where ever they pleased, making it impossible to implement any kind of strategy. With the breakout manager you can strategically place your teammates and designate break-shooters and "burners" that will lay down streams of paint in whatever direction you desire.

#2 Teammate Commands/Communication: In the first GHTP you were apparently a deaf-mute as you could not talk to your teammates and vice versa. Now you can call out where you think opposing players are and tell your teammates when to move from bunker to bunker.

#3 Field Editor: While somewhat limited, the field editor is a blast to play with. There are a wide array of available bunkers and three field sizes; small, regulation and big.

#4 Exhibition Mode: Exhibition mode lets you play with up to three friends on split-screen and up to 14 people over x-box live or similar service. With only one player you can still choose any team to play with, novice to pro, and sample each and every gun and course in the game. In the original GHTP you could only play "arcade mode" on fields you'd already unlocked by completing a tournament.

Other than these features and some new equipment the game is essentially unchanged from the original.

Causes problems with other game saves on my console. The only way to fix this was to delete all of your previous saves... not fun. It is updated from the last game and you can control your teammates now, which is cool.

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