MDK 2

There's not much to say other then that.

This game had a lot of potential but was really dragged down by the lackluster level design. Most stages were ok but tended to be boring and overly repetitive. The different play styles for the characters were interesting in 2 of 3 cases but were not enough to overcome the boring areas you had to play through. Some of the bosses were innovative, but several of them were extremely frustrating due to the fact that winning depended on careful jumping and climbing that the game's engine handles poorly. The levels with the professor deserve a special mention for being absolutely awful. Supposedly the professor would invent things and interact with objects to overcome problems. In practice nearly all of the inventions are created in the first level and from there you are just playing a low-quality shooter/platformer with a gun that shoots bouncy toast instead of bullets!

boy did I play it over and over again.

MDK2 was the second game I wan to play... but the there was no ocasion and no posibility for it. And again GOG.COM gave me this ocasion.

You know when you play a game and it fits like a glove, checking every box you expect a third person shooter to offer? Well, MDK was that for me. When I heard about a sequel, the purchasing was automatic, Except that MDK 2 wasn't paced like the first. This time, for whatever reason, you play as three characters: Kurt (from the first one), Max (a six handed cyber dog) and Doc (the one who developed the MDK suit). When you play as Kurt, it's exactly the same game as the first but with better graphics and sound. My God, how I wish the *WHOLE* game was this way, but then you have to play with the other two. Playing with Kurt is pretty straightforward: shoot things, jump on platforms to solve puzzles, parachute here and there. You still get some of the old weapons, upgrades to your ammo and the first person view cannon. Going with the dog Max, the game is still a third person shooter, except with some under developed levels, with repetitive mazes and uneccessary long parts. In some levels you can use a jetpack, although it has its own fuel which you have to manage sometimes, otherwise you would fall and lose health. Although Kurt was perfect and the dog was just ok, playing with the Doc was a chaotic mess, to say the least. It starts as a "point and click" adventure, where you have to solve obtuse puzzles and build your own items and weapons. Talking of which, one of the weapons is a toaster that shoots... well, toasts, and it has an upgrade down the line that lets you shoot radioactive toasts that bounces around (seriously, it's bad and extremely gimmicky to use properly). Why someone thought that playing with this instead of an arm-monted minigun and a rocket launcher helmet, I don't know. I only know that everytime the game started a level with the other two characters instead of Kurt, was like playing a very bad designed game inbetween levels of MDK, just because. I couldn't wait until it ended so I could get back playing the proper MDK levels.