Nerf Arena Blast

Nerf Arena Blast (known as Nerf Arena in Europe) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Visionary Media and published by Hasbro Interactive. It is a first-person shooter title akin to Unreal Tournament, where the player participates in three different events, with the general aim of hitting your opponents.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Unlike most toy-based licensed games, the game is surprisingly decent in quality, running smoothly and well thanks to the first version of the Unreal Engine.
 * 2) * It does a great job of being a first-person shooter made for a child audience.
 * 3) Three gameplay modes:
 * 4) * PointBlast: Players must obtain points and knock out their opponents, it is almost the same as the deathmatch mode in Unreal Tournament.
 * 5) * SpeedBlast: A race between several opponents and the player, where they must pass through the seven colored flags in order.
 * 6) * BallBlast: A scavenger-hunt type mode where players must try and collect colored balls and shoot them in a goal.
 * 7) Fun fast-paced and addicting gameplay that can appeal to even adults.
 * 8) The maps are fun to go around in, with all sorts of things to use, like slides, trampolines, etc.
 * 9) Many satisfying and interesting weapons that can be used. Some are based on real Nerf weapons from the time, while some are original creations, that are similar to weapons from Unreal Tournament.
 * 10) A fairly-dedicated modding community.
 * 11) * You can even play on maps from Unreal Tournament in PointBlast, as noted above, is similar to Deathmatch in the former.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game was barely supported by Hasbro Interactive and was almost completely abandoned when the publisher was sold to Infogrames in 2001.
 * 2) * Thankfully, the community has been saved from being fully abandoned, with fan-made patches and mods as noted above.
 * 3) The soundtrack is fairly generic.