Crusader: No Remorse™

Ever since they announced the partnership with EA I've been checking GoG's daily for this game. Easily one of my favorite games of all time.

I don't know what the difference between others' setup (who are saying the game is great) and my own setup is, but I can't even play the first room because the controls are beyond ghastly. I'm playing on a laptop with a Razer mouse, and I've tinkered with the limited mouse sensitivity option, but to no avail, and there's no possible way to try using the touchpad, since you cannot alter the input controls.Trying to control the Silencer is like trying to explain to a deaf, mute, and blind person what senses are. I can't aim, can't move, and succeed only in spinning in dizzying circles. It is more difficult than birthing a dinosaur. I really want to play the game, but it is impossible. I guess I can't complain too loudly, since I only wasted 3 dollars on it, but it's irritating because it seems like a cool game and I don't get to experience it. I've read a couple of reviews that say it's more playable with some sort of joystick/gamepad input controller, but I don't have anything like that. Anyway, just wanted to warn those who're thinking about purchasing it, that you might get shafted due to controls.

On Level 2 of the first mission the player is required to jump onto a moving platform floating above toxic waste. I've fallen through the platform several times. The Ctrl-M command mentioned in the readme.txt shouldn't be used. Once you hit the last music track instead of looping around to the first track in the array it acts as an EXIT GAME command.

yes,this is the first crusader.The graphic is nice,the maps are very big and the audio is perfect. 8/10

If the controls don't get you, the conveyor belt bug on the 3rd mission will. You see, the game has a bug that can trigger in the 3rd mission due to the player stepping on conveyor belts during that mission. You will not know until the end of the mission FMVs play and the game then black screens. You must step on at least one conveyor to complete the mission. I endured the controls, which were awful even for the time. I endured the chunky movement, awkward jumping, dodging and shooting in a grid based rpg engine. I grew up on that weird 80s and 90s stuff. There's a good game hidden beneath all of that if you can get to it, but a gamebreaking bug like this requiring such a bizarre solution as "replaying the level avoiding all conveyors and hoping the last one doesn't trigger the bug" was one straw too many for me. I couldn't even bring myself to give 2 stars because, for my experience it is genuinely broken despite being fun at it's core.