Shellshock 2 Experiments With Drug Lore Of ‘Nam, Just In Time For Holidaze

Shellshock 2: Blood Trails is Rebellion’s sequel to the Killzone gang’s Shellshock: Nam ‘67 (shucks, we must’ve missed that one). This second tour of doodie, brought to you by Eidos, is presented with this thumb-tingling pitch: “a brutal and twisted psychological first person shooter, coming to disturb your Christmas.” (We prefer our holidays quite undisturbed, thank you.)

What we’re dealing with appears to be a rehash of Jacob’s Ladder, replacing the film’s “The Ladder” drug (loosely based on BZ) with “Whiteknight” (”an enemy that ultimately has no side”) — oh, and scantly clad babe-soldiers. Or is that just one of the frightening hallucinations…? Dah-dah-dumb.