Posted on: March 17, 2012

EternityofNight
Games: 165 Reviews: 5
Decent Quake 2 clone
Kingpin uses the excellent quake 2 engine and is quite well made, the design succeeds in creating a grim urban environment filled with various types of inner city scum, and various weaponry to unleash upon them as well. The game is quite engaging and I especially enjoyed feeling as if I was an outsider, creeping through the wood work of this dingy realm, dispatching various scumbags that got in my way, and taking their wallets. However, there are some things that I don't like about this game, mostly to do with the weaponry. First of all, the guns are instant hit, which doesn't make any sense at all and is quite unrealistic. If an enemy is a long distance and fires a gun at me, I should be able to dodge out the way, but not in this game. The enemy does not seem to miss either, which makes the game too hard and is absolutely no fun. Instead of fighting hollywood style gun battles you'll be cursing as your health meter runs down to nothing, and this game has very little health or ammo. Some might point out that this is more of an adventure game, but it's not, it's just an FPS with an urban theme. Also, the guns are not powerful enough when firing in close quarters. I did enjoy the tommy gun, however, and even used that sound to replace the machine gun in other quake based games like half life. Over all, worth buying for the low price here, but it's definitely a bargain bin game rather than a "classic."
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