Posted on: May 2, 2012

PCGameGuy

Games: 1100 Reviews: 4

A long slog through generic FPS fare

So, if you read any reviews online you will hear about the poor story, twitchy AI, and clipping glitches. You may also hear how it sucks. If you are looking for a Half-Life, Deus Ex, or Call of Duty here you will be agreeing with them pretty quickly. However, if you just want an FPS experience that satisfies your desire to go places and shoot things this one is just fine. First, it is the second longest FPS I have ever played. Only the original Unreal was longer. I am serious, this is level after level of shooting stuff. They take you from space, to Earth, to Mars and your poor protagonist has to walk everywhere it seems. The graphics are on a par with the original Half-Life, the dialogue has a real European ESL feel to it with some odd translations choices and captions that don't match the audio, and the weapons are modeled on real world equipment. The physics are okay, stunted jump height and occasionally getting stuck on an edge notwithstanding. I did turn to an online guide at a few points, some of the critical pathing is not obvious and can leave you stuck in an empty room wondering where to go next. Still, it was a satisfying trip through old school shooter territory that satisfies the desire to shoot stuff and has enough story to explain why you are there. It ran fine on my Win7 Home Premium box, right from install, and it took my 1920x1080 widescreen settings just fine. Cutscenes at that resolution, however, are stretched so you lose the top and bottom of them. This may annoy if you want to see the on-screen text telling you where you are (you can hear it beeping but it is below the edge).

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Posted on: November 11, 2011

beliar

Verified owner

Games: 385 Reviews: 11

Guilty pleasure

Chaser is in no way a perfect game, but I have a lot of fond memories playing in endlessly a long time ago, and upon replaying it I can say, that it still is hugely entertaining. In Chaser you are an amnesiac man waking up aboard a space station, that is suddenly attacked by hostile forces. The game will take you from space to Earth to gang turfs and deep see trenches to the cold wastes of Syberia and even exotic Mars. If I have to use one word to describe the game, it's "ambitious". Chaser starts with a bang and for the first half of the game engages in a non-stop heart-pounding action. However developers ran out of steam and after that the game becomes more bland and repetitive, storyline also suffers as a consequence. Still, I would consider it to be one of the strongest scenarios in an FPS. The game is fairly challenging and provides a lot of guns to help you. Even an easy difficulty setting is of quite moderate difficulty. Also the game is very long and might just be one of the longest first person shooters. The downside that in the end the game becomes repetitive and is quite buggy (nothing critical; some graphical glitches, ability to get stuck in walls, jumping doesn't work as intended...). Pros: Strong plot Memorable characters Engaging gameplay Varied missions (shoot them all levels, sniping levels, underwater levels, stealth levels) Very long Lots and varied weapons Graphics still look good even today Cons: Buggy The second half of the game is worse and becomes repetitive, design also suffers Underwater levels are notorious (though they are more irritating than actually difficult) Extremely unsatisfying ending Other: Voice acting is so bad, that it becomes good:-)

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Posted on: January 13, 2012

benman88

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Games: 65 Reviews: 5

You might finish this out of boredom

This game just really isn't very good. You can see how some of the elements might have come together for an entertaining experience but that doesn't happen here. I honestly can't see why someone would have given a positive rating on this one. The level design is repetative, the enemies are bland, the combat doesn't work very well, and the "bullet time" mechanic just doesn't add anything other than the chance not to have your butt handed to you by earily accurate gunshots. Seriously not fun, you'll resent yourself for even bothering to trudge through this one. I gave it 2 stars because it still works, it just basically sucks.

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Posted on: August 12, 2020

schickimicky

Verified owner

Games: 672 Reviews: 48

Chaser, but why?

Warning: do you ever wanted to steer a submarine with bad controls into grey water into a grey ship graveyard? You can't see anything. It's really an absolute programmed mess. Have a look at these underwater vids on youtube before buying this title. I hate using cheats and stopped playing, perhaps I will skip these awful levels later on to be able to see the end titles. Really the worst levels I ever saw in a pc game. These programmers should have oriented themselves to the underwater levels of nolf or red faction instead before creating such a crap. Pros: budget shooter, sci-fi setting, the patched gog version runs stable on win 10 64 BIT so far, on average okay graphics, few graphic glitches, nice soundtrack, big choice of weapons, good shooting behaviour, bullet time mode, it's a little fun. Cons: huge levels without map function, sometimes you stand right in front of the exit, but you can't see it, stupid enemy intelligence, much too long and too many video sequences with bad voice acting and forgettable story plot, clone company of always the same enemy types with same parents, endless waves of enemies or buildings filled with enemies each number of meters, sometimes everywhere respawning enemies, especially from behind out of nowhere, at times very hard even on easy mode. Better skip this title and play again one of your well-known shooter classics.

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Posted on: October 24, 2020

BalaclavaBandit

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Games: Reviews: 23

Old School FPS

I really don't understand the hatred towards this title, its a simply budget FPS with a large ARSENAL of weapons and some pretty fun fast movement around nice arenas and corridors. Yes the levels are long, but they are also extremely varied, if you are a fan of older FPS games from 2000-2005 I would say do it. Do not listen to the people parroting reviews they have seen from the likes of GMANLIVES and JAREK THE GAMING DRAGON

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