Mostly successful, we say, because it still doesn't work as well as it would have on a console with two analog sticks. Yes, you can strafe with the d-pad, but when combat gets really frenetic (as it always does in these games), it doesn't work nearly as well as the standard third-person-shooter controls of the game's predecessors. This applies to the four-player multiplayer portion especially.

Speaking of, the multiplayer stuff is really solid, offering a variety of game types from the standbys like Deathmatch to the new Iron Lombax, a team-based game that gives you different objectives depending on the map and pretty much lag-free gameplay. Another team mode we liked was Mega Cannon, which has the team racing to assemble a gigantic laser turret and then use said death ray to blast the opponent's big gun to bits. And then there's the one where you're packing cows into boxes in a meat plant... we'll leave that for you to discover.