The Club

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $11.30

Features:

• "Rise Through the Ranks of The Club™. As one of eight fighters, blast your way through five single player game modes including: Standard Mode, Time Attack, Survivor, Siege, and Run the Gauntlet.
• Earn Respect Online. Shoot your way to the top of the leader boards in over nine cut-throat multiplayer modes. You will face-off with 15 real-time opponents online or battle with your friends offline in 4-player split-screen action modes.
• "The Club™ is Global. Battle in eight unique real-world locations from around the globe, including war-torn cities, abandoned factories, steel mills and many more.
• "Extreme Gun Battles in Hazardous Environments. A motion blur camera system intensifies the adrenaline rush in both open range and close quarter firefights. Destroy and manipulate objects in the environment to your advantage.
• "Build up the highest score. A unique score-based accumulation system creates even more competition among players; the faster, more efficient and accurate that you are, the more points you will earn to unlock weapons, characters and maps.

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

JOIN THE CLUB AT YOUR OWN RISK [Posted on 2008-02-28]
Something not mentioned enough during the Writer's Guild strike was that the difference between the (deservedly successful) TERMINATOR 2 and the (deservedly flopped) LAST ACTION HERO was their writing. One can have all the star power possible, manage to incorporate a mega-explosion every 93sec, enjoy more hype that can be handled - and yet fail to sell even matinées tickets if the writing is not up to par.

Games are not that different. Visually and graphically beautiful games can fall flat on their face if not backed by a good story - see DAWN OF MAGIC and DUNGEON SIEGE II. THE CLUB suffers not from story problems - because it...does not pretend to have one worth mentioning.
In this Third-Person Shooter one fights to survive the blood-sport organized by an elitist club of uber-rich. Assuming one of 8 characters (each with his own story that led him to bloodlust), with an interesting arsenal at his disposal, this is a cross between a shooter and a racing game: unless you keep shooting at (and hitting) your targets your bonus multipliers drop fast. Unless you gain enough bonuses to augment your effectiveness, there is no chance to win.

Similar to most fast-paced shooters, there are 5 single player game modes: Standard, Time Attack, Survivor, Siege, and Run the Gauntlet. Sure, all concepts have been done to death ever since UT2003 - but that is not THE CLUB's main problem.

Games are not exactly the same as movies. Writing is important but if the gameplay suffers, the whole effort is in vain. THE CLUB is another game clumsily ported from the XBOX. Similar to the GEARS OF WAR, the controls do not work well on a PC. Moreover, the environments are well-made and mostly interactive (a-la STRANGEHOLD manner) but this, in effect, fails to add anything to the game.

This is a game that aimed to create an online multiplayer following. If UNREAL TOURNAMENT III, a much better game, failed to do so, one can imagine what chances THE CLUB has...

Great game [Posted on 2008-04-05]
I bought this game about a month ago and is a very fun game to play with. The campaign is the most challenging part of the game the only bad thing is that no one is Windows Live. If there where people on Windows Live we can get achievments more faster than the campaign. I didn't have any problems installing this game on my computer with Windows Vista; however, the install does take some time to install on the computer harddrive. I have a Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper-Threading technology and workd nicely, but would work with better performace if you had a Intel Core 2 Quad or Intel Core 2 Extrem proseser.

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