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Posted on: May 27, 2010
Pritchard71
Verified ownerGames: 161 Reviews: 1
At last!
I have tried several times to get this gem running on my Pc's over the last few years, with no real luck. Now at last GOG has made it possible for me to play one of my all time favorite games on my Win7 PC! The game is brilliant, and runs fantastic great work GOG, you've made me v.happy.
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Posted on: June 13, 2010
dawfydd
Verified ownerGames: 500 Reviews: 1
Three words: The Clay Manouver
Oh man, what a great gaem that GOG have resurrected. In it's original 'big box' release this was the game I brought at the same time as the Sidwinder Pro joystick that's done me proud right through to today. Even today I have found memories of the wonderful physics engine that encouraged creative combat manouvers, a limited selection of (still quite meaty) weapons, and the novelty of being able to jump into any of the four bridge positions or to leave your crew to do their jobs (suprisingly well a lot of the time...) The missions are superb, offering a rich variety of objectives (some of which only pay of in the equally underated sequel, Edge Of Chaos) whilst telling a deeply compelling story. This deluxe edition then goes one step further, placing you in the shoes and nattily decorated ships of the Indie Fleet for a campaign that is even more punishing. And I mean that as a compliment! The final point in this games favour (other than being able to run it now on pretty much any rig out there) is the opening cinematic (a trademark of Infogrames titles from this period: see I-War 2 and Outcast...), and Jefferson Clay as your cranky ship-board AI advisor. All I have to say is 'Dumb-ass questions in, smart-ass answers back out...'
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Posted on: June 9, 2010
gas.gas
Games: 406 Reviews: 46
Ye good game, but very hard to handle
I got this game boxed and i must admit i dont remember everything about it actually, but i write this to let new potential users to be warn about a couple of things. Well first of all, for this price i suggest any first person space sim shooter's fans to give it a try, its an interesting game sure, but dont expect descent or starglider anyway, as written in many other reviews this is not a typical "fighter" space battle sim, here you will have your trouble to take down even a single enemy ship as the challenge is related more to become able to pilot your fat ship then to other aspects of the game. Beside that idea could be appealing im in need to tell that i remember this game quite frustrating about the difficuly to fly your ship in a decent manner, imo this is a bit further the "satisfaction" of mastering any simulation game, this tend imo to become a bit boring experience, at least it happened to me. If you are like me a keyboard+mouse only pc gamer, be warned that piloting that ship is really challengeing, maybe with a joystick could be a different expereince, but defo this game is not for everyone. Personally i gave up after not so many time cause i was bored to try hitting a single enemy for half an hour ;) , and its more then 30 years that im pc-gaming (conting Commodore too), so dont think it was the only space sim i palyed.
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Posted on: October 14, 2012
Harrkev
Verified ownerGames: 697 Reviews: 11
Won't run.
No matter how well written it is, if it does not even run, then nothing else matters. My system is an HP laptop, Windows 7 64-bit. ATI CPU and graphics (low-end machine). I can watch the opening cut-scene, but then it crashes. I have tried the usual suspects: all switches in compatibility mode and running as admin. Still dies. Pity. This sure looked like a good game. I hope GOG actually does something to get this to run on a modern OS soon.
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Posted on: July 20, 2021
JMayer70
Verified ownerGames: 504 Reviews: 202
Better that IW2, however......
It is still not a great game. I has not aged well, the controls are awful. The AI is awful. But hey, it is late 90's. At least here in IW1 you can go "free explore" (using cheats), and it's starmap is much bigger and at least centred on our home Sol system. IW2 has a pathetic starmap, and one of those even caused a CTD every time you enter (the Dagda system). Not as utterly HUURRRRRHURRHUURR DURRRRR difficult as IW2 neither, but you WILL need the cheat codes for the final 50% worth of campaign missions. I bought this from pure nostalgia from the year 2000....... it did not live up to it's own memories!
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