Z: The Game

I love the original Z in 1996, but this port, argh. The interface is different than the original, the mouse controll is a pain in the ass. It feel like the mouse buttons are switched. hello gog, i am still waiting for my good old game Z.

Mouse controls are screwed up, graphic it's not real HD, no options for graphic nor controls, map scroll is not good, and not full screen cutscenes.. was it relly so difficult to pick up the original game and make it compatibile with modern Windows? Z is a 5 star game, but this version really sucks.. Let's hope they'll change it for good or, at least, patch it to make it more close to the original.. I'm really disappointed, and it's not worth buyin' as far as I'm concerned..

First of all, I didn't bought it yet, but wishlisted it. From what I've heard its not the original game. I remember when GOG released the Earth2140 XP version, which had the crippled AI that did nothing and kept being idle. Some years later I noticed that they added the original Earth2140 DOS version as bonus content and bought it straight away. Same goes for this version of Z. As long as there is not the original version of Z, don't buy it! Avoid it at all costs until, hopefully, the real Z is here or at least is added as bonus content.

Z was one of my favourite games back then so I bought it instantly when it got released here on gog. Sadly this version isn´t the original pc version - its a terrible done mobile port. The mouse control (which is essential for Z, since its a very fast game) is unbearable stiff and inaccurate, which makes the game hard to play or better nearly unplayable. On top of it there are no setup options. You can´t change important settings like the resolution (because of this I can only play the game with big, ugly black borders and tiny, hard to see units). Z is an awesome game - this version doesn´t do it justice. Don´t buy it.

What some people forget is that most good old dos-games run perfectly well on modern pc´s, no matter the hardware; the argument that one should be thankful for whatever developers throw our, the consumer's, way, since the game would otherwise not be playable, is utterly void. The old "Z" runs in dosbox plus there is an open-source solution to run it as multiplayer in windows without issues. The version on offer as "Z: The game" has control-issues, stemming probably from it´s heritage as a port for mobile touchscreen-devices. Why, now, should the consumer accept a flawed product that is poorly optimized for the respective platform (the windows personal computer), when there are still better solutions? Until the promised (or so I hear) updates are being made to "Z: The game", the low ratings universally given are perfectly justified.