XIII

It's still a great game after all this years. Unfortunatly with an open end and no chance to see a sequel. Avoid to play it on Win 11 24H2, it will save you a lot of trouble. I rolled my Win 11 system back to the 23H2 Update and everything runs nicely.

Fun game. Love the artstyle. Really enjoy the story

though i missed this game when i was a kid its something i cant ignore and love. sad the remake was horrible

Great game, great music. Shame they didn't continue it as a series but you can reed rest of the story in comics. Only thing bad is problem with mouse. It will be unplayeble. But to fix that you need to go to options, turn mouse sensitivity bar max to the right and press enter to save it. Just don't right click out of menu since it won't save it like that. And turn down your mouse sensitivity to min (mine has little button on it to control dpi). It will be still wonky in menu but in game it will be fine. Have fun.

XIII is an almost fantastic game. With the art direction being stylized, it still looks great. It's not as good as Borderlands, but still great. Cell shading does a lot to hide the age of the game. This along with good cut scenes made me feel like I was playing a comic, and it does all this on fairly low end cards. The story was above average (it actually had one), and there is actual depth on the various principle characters in the game. The voice acting was on the better end of video games. If it weren't for three sins and one flaw, it could easily have earned 5 stars. 1. Check points: This is an outdated concept that was obsolete years before XIII was published. Outside of a few genuine games where they actually enhance, it is a lazy game development tool. Life interrupts, and sometimes people can't take the time to make the next check point, and their game play was wasted. 2. Long times between check points and sudden death: I guess this could be two, but the combo is what makes it bad. I had sections of the game that would take up to 20 minutes (your mileage may vary) to reach the next check point, and a single failure during that time would result in complete failure and replaying the entire section. 3. Difficulty: I decided to play the game on Arcade mode (easy in other games) to just enjoy the story, and I had more trouble playing than I did F.E.A.R. on its hardest difficulty. I'm not saying it can't be done, it can, but Arcade (easy) should actually be easy. The one flaw was that bosses didn't feel balanced. Some were so easy I didn't even need a health pack, while others were so hard I had to replay the section several times. All in all, it was a fun time, and I'm glad I got it. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who would love to play an action spy game with plenty of shooting and sneaking. I would have been happy to have gotten it for $15-20. At GOGs price... It's a steal.