Kingpin: Life of Crime

Well... I can't even tell anything about my feelings because, for the first time the since i'm on GOG the game just doesn't launch.

Lasted 5 minutes playing this. All controls not mapped correctly. Couldn't speak to npcs. Fullscreen did not work. Started feeling like a second job just to optimise it.

I have no nostalgia for this game. There is pretty good unofficial patch to get the modern widescreen resolutions working, but the gameplay is just horrible. Shooting is so crap and takes the fun out of the game. Level design is meh and game is lacking in giving players some guidance to get the gameplay basics familiar. Maybe the coming reloaded version will make this even playable, but as it is, this is not worth it.

One of the most frustrating experiences of my life. Horrible level design and even worse shooting mechanics. It's almost like the game uses "automiss" which is the opposite of autoaim, of course. Frankly, some of the stiffest and least satisfying shooting of all time, which is a terrible shame because it is a Quake 2 engine game. Don't even try to kill anybody with an unmodded pistol or lead pipe. Once you get your hands on the magnum mod for the pistol it becomes a bit more useful but not by much. Enemies still run all over the place completely at random and shuffle side to side during firefights, making themselves incredibly annoying to hit with such a crappy weapon with a low rate of fire. The level desgin is so bad. For example, you'll venture into an area and progress to a point only to realize it's a completely dead end. Turns out you have to backtrack to talk to some guy you didn't notice before, and he's just standing in an alleyway somewhere. The structure is like Hexen, only very poorly done. I really can't recommend Kingpin: Life of Crime unless you're a masochist who enjoys painful trial and error gameplay. In which case buy it right now, because it is definitely a game that is difficult in all the wrong ways.

I normally wait until I finish a game to review it. Kingpin didn't give me that option. Why? A stupid door that wouldn't open. Yes, I know I could have cheated (which is an ordeal in itself on Win7), but if i am forced to, then the game has failed. It's story is a been-there-done-that tale of revenge that makes absolutely no sense when it transitions from one place to another. (Why the hell am I going to the docks?! Didn't the guy I want to kill just drive away?) Graphically, this could've just been a Quake mod and society at large wouldn't have to suffer knowing this existed as a retail product. The moral of the story: "Just because it has guns, doesn't mean it's fun."