Posted on: April 20, 2023
Wolfinston85
Verified ownerGames: 531 Reviews: 54
Kudos to GOG, as for the game...
I always wanted to play this game for its known characteristic of being incredibly violent, of course, nowadays with stuff like Mortal Kombat this game is tame by comparison, there's some mods that even help in this aspect by adding more gore and blood, but generally I thought the base game was fine with this, it's uncensored here so it's all good. The game itself is really the problem, the story is not that good, it has its moment but it's fairly generic, the real issue is the gameplay though, as if it wasn't enough for the story to repeat the mission briefing in five different forms two of them being separate cutscenes, the gameplay of this game well... it hasn't aged well at all. The balancing of difficulty is a mess, even on the easiest settings you get killed quick, and like other users have mentioned the game uses hitscan enemies which is atrocious, there's also some forced stealth sections at the beginning of the game that instantly fail you if you get spotted, having to restart from your latest save/quicksave. The game also limits your saves depending on the difficulty that you play, even Normal gives you only five of them; thankfully you can customize this, because the game does have customizable difficulty options, but it doesn't have that many settings. You can choose between the difficulty balance of the enemies between the presets of difficulty already available, then how many saves, then how much equipment you can carry in missions, and whether you want innacuracy in your guns, other than that, there are no other options to change the difficulty of the game. You could use cheats, but what's the point of that? The whole balance gets lost, and you want to be engaged by the game but not frustrated, right? Same as you don't want the game to just go through the motions. Overall, I just thought it was a pretty dissappointing experience.
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