Posted on: April 23, 2023

P-Rock

Jeux: 165 Avis: 31

Great remaster, mediocre shooter

Powerslave/Exhumed is a shooter from Lobotomy Software based in ancient Egypt. Back in the day it was released for PC, SEGA Saturn and PlayStation. These versions were different from eachother, as the PC version was a straight up FPS, but the Saturn version was more like Hexen with different hubs you needed revisit to progress further. In my country it was called Exhumed (I still have the CD-ROM somewhere!), but in other countries it was called Powerslave, which is also the name of an Iron Maiden album. This is a good remaster which combines all the versions into one playable game. The graphics look really nice, the soundtrack is good and the shooting also kicks ass. But taking off my nostalgia goggles Powerslave/Exhumed is a pretty mediocre shooter. The enemies are boring (the first few maps you are mostly shooting bugs, eagles and jumping scorpions), the player's hitbox is too wide, making it hard to dodge projectiles in the many narrow hallways, the maps are confusing and there's too much annoying platforming. Worst of all is that they took out the manual saves and put in a terrible checkpoint save system! The checkpoints are pretty far from eachother and sometimes well hidden, making it a real chore to play if you want to quit the game, but not want to lose your progress. All in all: great remaster, but still too many flaws to be memorable. Guess I'll have to buy the original PC version too now, since that one's very different from this remaster.

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Posted on: January 20, 2025

ScrungoChungo

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The Best Way to Play a Mid Console FPS

I want to start by saying that I'm not criticizing this release on a technical level as Nightdive clearly put in effort to add in a good deal of options and the game itself plays fine. The graphical settings in particular are very nice and I wish more remasters/remakes had these kinds of options like the CRT filter or Z-clipping emulation. This review is purely about how I felt playing the game. My apologies for only posting the bad but all the good stuff is already abundant in the review section so bear with me. The real issues with Powerslave Exhumed is that fundamentally it's recreating the console version of Powerslave including the bad stuff. While I understand the decision to try and stick to the original gameplay I really wish they would have gone in a different direction and tried to change the bad aspects. I would have also preferred if they kept some of the PC features like the POV death animations at least as an option. There was a real opporunity here to try and marry the best parts of the PC and console versions and include new quality of life features while being able to toggle between certain things to make it closer to that original experience for the purists. -As mentioned by others, the player hitbox size and the ammo system are particualrly bad and there's really no reason to have kept these besides that they were in the original console versions. -Having to swap weapons to restore ammo to a weapon that's low or out of ammo is just silly and it would have made more sense to change it so that ammo pickups restore a bit of ammo to all weapons. -Enemies are not fun to fight either (a third of them shoot the same projectile) and there's not many distinct kinds of them, only their designs were interesting to me. Bosses lacked distinction as well, besides the last one. -Level design is very emblematic of console FPS games. Tight hallways, few open areas, and an abundance of platforming. Checkpoint system forcing replays of tough segments sucks!

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Posted on: February 20, 2022

Phlogios

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Jeux: 125 Avis: 1

Great metroidvania in first-person

I was pleasantly surprised by this game. I have never played the original, but wanted to buy a Sega Saturn after seeing a review of the game on Youtube. When the remake was released on GOG I immediately bought it and tried it out and I was not disappointed. I played through the whole thing. I recommend this to anyone that likes boomer shooters and platformer puzzles.

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Posted on: February 12, 2022

NoMadbrain

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Near perfect remaster

I know this review will be downvoted to oblivion, but could you please add achement support? Every other version has it and it adds a lot of replay value to the game. Other than that, the remaster is amazing and am very impressed. I loved and still own the saturn/ps1 games, and this package is a gift from the gods. The standard price is fair and worth a purchase from old users and new people who have not yet experienced it yet.

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Posted on: February 11, 2022

Scouali

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Awesome but still some minor issues

The game and the port are overall very good but some issues at launch. The player hitbox seems too big/ the french translation (the new one for this port) is hilariously bad and bugged (but devs says it's being patched)/some ennemies sounds seems to be missing. Otherwise its an awesome game that deserve your money for sure. Night dive, you're the best.

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