Posted on: February 21, 2021
lz8
Verified ownerGames: 112 Reviews: 1
Unplayable
Installed it successfully. Printed out a list of control keys and kept it in front of me for reference, until I could learn them. First problem: the manual's list is far from complete. I kept seeing more new keys to use during the tutorial as it led me through the first 20 minutes or so of gameplay. Second problem: You have to use a mouse and keyboard (TOO MANY keys on the keyboard) to play (which is bad). But even worse: they've made the mouse unusable. It lags and is erratic, and you MUST use the mouse to aim quickly at your opponents. I made the recommended adjustments in an .INI file, but that was just more wasted time. Third problem: Got to the point where I was aiming darts at an opponent. I couldn't aim at him. He was hurling bright orange fireballs, which made the pale off-white pointer I'm supposed to use to aim darts at him literally IMPOSSIBLE to see! So I had no hope of ever aiming at him and releasing a dart. Fourth problem: (Keep in mind that at this point I haven't even gotten out of the tutorial yet!) After randomly throwing so many darts that the game gave up on teaching me that part, I had a new Talent available. So I followed the tutorial's instructions and spent the talent on Character Development and my character got upgraded. ... except it kind of didn't. It did, but it didn't -- because I kept going back and forth between two screens: the one where I had already used the Talent, and the screen that told me (repeatedly) that I now need to use my new Talent on Character Development. This isn't a game, it's a frustrating exercise in futility. To think that it was first developed for PCs 9 years ago, and that's what I've been TRYING to play it on 9 years later, and STILL it's an unplayable P-o-S?! The developers took a great franchise name and premise and totally ruined it. I proudly stand by this review as my first-ever ONE STAR rating. The game has 100% earned that rating.
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