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If you're a sentimental fan of G.I. Joe, then you are the most likely to truly enjoy this game. G.I. Joe fans will enjoy the characters, the things to collect, the Saturday morning cartoon-ish visuals, as well as the campy cartoony storyline. For all others, this will just come across as a run-of-the-mill third-person shooter game that will require some patience to find a control scheme setting you can work with.

Lo que nos ofrece este shooter en tercera persona es algo que hemos vivido en innumerables títulos precedentes y con mejor fortuna en la mayoría de ellos. Sin embargo, esta falta de originalidad queda compensada por diversos factores, como evidentemente el hecho de estar respaldada por una franquicia conocida como es G.I. Joe, siendo además una de las pocas producciones que recordamos que merecen la pena de las basadas en la conocida serie de Hasbro. Pero el juego posee otras cualidades, como un modo campaña interesante y relativamente extenso que además puede ser disfrutado en cooperativo a pantalla dividida. Y a esto se suma el modo multijugador para cuatro usuarios que, de manera casi incomprensible en los tiempos que corren, únicamente funciona de manera local. Una obra entretenida en su conjunto y bastante disfrutable para los entusiastas de la acción directa sin demasiadas complicaciones.

G.I Joe: Operation Blackout se trata de un shooter genérico pero que cumple con lo prometido traernos un enfrentamiento épico y que puede gustar más o menos a los fans.

The sum of the parts makes for a game that’s very much aimed at GI Joe fans, and that’s great. There are a lot of fan service games out there, most of which have no interest from me, but this one did. Between that nostalgia and innate interest, and recognizing very early on that this game is by far best played with a couch co-op buddy, GI Joe Operation Blackout is fun in spurts. I enjoyed the different feel to the characters and the story was entertaining as well. There’s a lot of pretty good elements to the game, but repetitive level design and gameplay, blah AI, and aiming woes taint the experience considerably — not necessarily to deal-breaker territory, but just proceed with caution.

There is some fun to be had in G.I. Joe Operation Blackout. The story is great but there is an over reliance on making you defend a position while wave upon wave on enemies attack. It's lower priced than most new releases but even taking that into account I can only really recommend this to die hard Joe fans.

It’s not perfect and there is not much variety but when you do play it, you can’t help but enjoy it for what it is. I guess it must say something if I enjoyed playing this more than I did the Avengers game.

No one can argue that G.I. Joe: Operation Cobra is anything but nostalgia bait. It’s designed to pull down the rose-tinted glasses of middle-aged Gen-Xers and keep their kids mildly entertained. But considering that the developers were working with a limited budget, it’s actually halfway decent nostalgia bait. The levels might get reused once or twice, but there are decent lighting effects and some of the areas are smartly designed and fun to explore. There’s a decent enough variety of mission objectives to keep from getting boring over the modest play time. The motion comics, voice acting and sound is done at the perfect level to bring back those memories of the Reagan years, when us kids didn’t understand what Iran/Contra was, but the game Contra was cool. If it weren’t for bad gunplay and aiming mechanics that have to be surmounted, Operation Blackout would be an easy recommend for the interested. As is, it does require a patient and forgiving player. Those that can find their way around this issue, though, will have a better time than the poor kid who got the Radar Rat.

I think you’d have to have an awful lot of love for G.I. Joe to get much enjoyment out of Operation Blackout, and even then, I can’t see this being a game that someone will pick up and play again and again. There is an option for local co-op and multiplayer, and there are a series of collectibles to gather in each stage with a couple of unlockables. There are also modifiers you can enable after completing a mission, which lets you run through the mission again with things like unlimited ammo, increased health, and so on, which would be neat if the stages themselves were any fun to begin with. I wish I could wholeheartedly suggest checking out G.I. Joe Operation Blackout, but I don’t think a solid roster of playable characters and an enjoyable story is enough to put up with the lackluster gameplay.

G.I. Joe: Operazione Blackout è una semplice operazione commerciale per spingere un marchio, nulla di più e nulla di meno. Ci troviamo per le mani un prodotto realizzato per fare cassa sugli appassionati e che non mette in mostra alcuna buona idea originale. Il multiplayer solo in locale poi, è la ciliegina sulla torta di un progetto che non trova alcun senso nel mercato attuale, se non quello di far giocare un pubblico decisamente giovane ad uno sparatutto in terza persona, senza ricordarsi però che là fuori i giocatori anche più freschi sono ormai abituati a qualità visive e tecniche di ben altro spessore.

There's a nugget of an excellent game located within G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout, but this outmoded third-person shooter unfortunately doesn't have the resources, scope, or variety to expand upon its unmistakable potential. With repetitive objectives, frustrating controls, and a lack of online multiplayer, G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout isn't fun enough to stand out in a crowded shooter marketplace, despite the obvious and heartfelt passion on display for the '80s franchise.

Outside of nostalgia, G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout does not stand apart from the generic third-person shooter, and its inconsistent gameplay and repetitive missions further mute its impact.

G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout is messy. The presentation is inconsistent, while the story is serviceable at best. The addition of local multiplayer outweighs the lack of online play, and the game is lengthy enough. However, the poor combat mechanics drag down the experience heavily, and on a platform that's absolutely bursting with more competent third-person shooters, this is one that you can easily pass on.

In a PlayStation Blog post to promote the game, IguanaBee declares G. I. Joe Operation Blackout is a game “for fans by fans.” Speaking as a fan, that feels like an empty statement. I’m pleased that the characters are closer in appearance to the original cartoon despite the more contemporary, high-tech setting but the rest of the game looks like a generic gun-centric action game. I really do hate being so overly negative about games but the fact of the matter is this is a one-trick pony that can’t do it’s single trick effectively. The visuals are unimpressive and combat is boring, tedious, and doesn’t make much sense from a narrative perspective. If the Joes are perfectly capable of turning the androids against COBRA whenever you’re playing as the bad guys, why don’t they just do that on a global scale and end this nonsense? At the end of the day, G. I. Joe Operation Blackout is hurt by a campaign that is neither fun nor a fitting tribute to a classic pop culture license. There’s multiplayer - local only - but I strongly doubt people are going to stick around to try it out. What it all comes down to in the end is that $40 is far too great a price to ask for this limping tribute to G. I. Joe.

GI Joe: Operation Blackout could have been something special, but it doesn’t capitalize on its nostalgia effectively, and has too many shortcomings to stand out in any meaningful way against the countless action games already available on every platform. It might be worthwhile as co-op fodder with a younger player, but everyone else might want to give this a pass.