The Point Blank series is more or less, a videogame representation of an interactive shooting gallery. You usually are not shooting at "realistic" looking humans or animals, and most of the time nothing is attacking you back. Point Blank 3 features the same mix of wacky Namco humor, with yet more modes and stages and things to do.

Anyone who has had the chance to play any of Namco's GunCon games on the PlayStation, should know that the peripheral is probably the best of it's kind, ever. By feeding into the PSX controller port and the video wire directly, the level accuracy you reach is near pixel perfect. That accuracy is definitely needed when playing some of the often ridiculously difficult stages in PB3. Practice is definitely required. This time around, there are nearly 80 brand new stages to play, most of which support simultaneous 2-player play. Actually, the entire game caters to multiple players, which ends up being both good and bad. It's good because besides 2-player simultaneous action, you have support for up to 8 alternating players. So it's a great party game. As a result, there is no real established single player mode, such as a Quest/Adventure/RPG mode. Arcade and Endurance modes, both with multiple difficulty levels, are good enough for a bit but after playing through the stages you usually want something more substantial to tackle.

Stages range from a simple "Shoot x amount of targets in y amount of time", to swatting mosquitoes away from Dr. Dan and Dr. Don (the game's mascots), to matching alike fighting stances for infamous Tekken hidden character, Mokujin. Some games are definitely more enjoyable than others, such as destroying a train before it crashes into you. Though there are some that annoyed me to no end (matching the time to 1 of 6 clocks for example). As soon as you jump from Beginner level to Advanced, however, things become much more frustrating.

PB3 is obviously not about graphics and sounds, so if pixelly scaling sprites make you nauseous, then stay away. There isn't a single polygon or texture map to be found in the entire game. The game is full of wacky cartoon-like sound effects, and there is not much of a soundtrack to be found. Namco fans out there will be sure to catch some of the remixed familiar tunes that play during a few select events, as well.

All in all, Point Blank 3 is an enjoyable, yet short lived lightgun game for the PlayStation. While it doesn't really have enough single player content to satisfy most fans of the genre, PB3 definitely is much more fun with multiple players.