Posted on: February 12, 2015
fossilfern
Verified ownerGames: 293 Reviews: 8
Only game in the series you should play
This, to me, is one the last great first person shooters. I remember October 2005 like a clear night. I won a competition in a PC magazine and I got an AMD FX-57 with 2GB RAM and a motherboard, so all I had to do is upgrade my GPU and this was one of the first games I got with that new setup! The gun fights are crazy; partials would fly everywhere, spars, dust & glass. The AI is smart and they will flank you. The sound design and topnotch and if you still have an EAX sound card with the Creative Alchemy progamme your ears are in for a treat! The guns have some of the most satisfying cathartic sounds you will hear in a shooter, the screams of the enemies while you shotgun them halfway across a hall never gets old. The game is showing its age in terms of graphics but the lighting is still top notch and the image is just so "clean". The game also didnt give in to the whole "regenerating health" rubbish that shooters of the same era and later would use. Again this is the only game in the series you really need to play, the later two games seemed to be more aimed towards the "masses" and have this really bad "Call of Duty" feel to them and everything that made the first game so good was gone. The expansions are okay but the main game is outstanding. BUY IT!
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