Posted on: May 17, 2018

Hanglyman

Jeux: 444 Avis: 141

XTREEEEEEEM!!!

This game is somewhere between Half Life and Duke Nukem, without the charm of either. You play as John Blade, a hulking, dreadlock-festooned, google-wearing, lantern-jawed futurecop who looks like he was designed by Rob Liefeld. Backed up by a stereotypical computer nerd, J.C., as support, you battle against CEO Elexis Sinclaire, a mad scientist dominatrix and probably one of the earliest implementations of jiggle physics. While I have to give the game credit for including such an unusual antagonist, essentially a competent and seductive female Bond villain who eludes and outsmarts the oafish Blade at every turn, it's somewhat ruined by the way she's objectified and treated as a teenager's wet dream, from the scantily-clad posters of her everywhere to the way she fondles herself while watching Blade through a window to the viewscreen where you can spy on her taking a bath. It's possible to have a busty female villain who uses sex appeal as a weapon, but in this case she's more fan service than character. The entire game has this immature, dated attitude. Every bulletin board is filled with lame jokes or references to Army of Darkness, pieces of equipment say "90210 SUX" on them, and everything in general represents the worst side of 90s nerd culture. Duke Nukem got away with a lot of silly stuff because it was over-the-top satire, but one gets the impression that this game really thinks this is all edgy and cool. For the time, the level of interactivity was probably impressive- there are multiple exits to levels, things you do in one can affect another later on, there's an ATV you can ride, and switches and levers galore. It hasn't aged well, however, and most of this feels boring and pointless, not helped by a bug which forces you to use a no-clipping cheat just to continue the game. The combat is fine but the enemies are generic and boring, the plot is shallow, objectives are sometimes confusing, and most importantly, it's just not fun, immersive or interesting.

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Posted on: November 24, 2018

Ramevox

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Not as good as one can remember

I remember SiN as a fun game, but after attempting to replay it recently, I have to say it's a way more flawed title even for its time than some may say, and on a top of that it dated poorly. A first couple of levels are pretty fun, enemies try to hide and run, but the game takes a run downhill really fast. Every next level is more streamlined, even if there are some options available for the player that impact set ups further down the line. However, a thing that got me the most to the point of stopping playing half way through, is a terrible movement and a gun handling. The character's movement is really floaty, to the point of giving an impression of sliding on the floor. Collisions are also messed up, with the player character getting stuck and possibly crushed to death by an opened door or a wardrobe. Last, but not the least, there're also sound effects. When the game introduces snipers for the first time, you can die repeatedly at the very beginning of the level, because you can't see nor hear snipers sitting on a shelf behind your starting position and around a starting arena. Took me a long while before realising that there's a couple of snipers. Situations where you wonder why you are losing HP without any other indication besides the numbers going down are pretty common. The further down the line you progress, the more of them you will encounter. The game can still be a bit of fun, especially for the first time playing. I wouldn't say it's worth to replay it, though.

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Posted on: September 6, 2023

rwgomez

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Jeux: 193 Avis: 5

Clunky and Frustrating

This comes from a time when developers started to want to inject story into their FPS's. In the case of Sin, the narrative comes at the expense of fun game play. Weapons feel horrible, movement is sluggish, and there are some horribly designed water levels that will make you want to punch your monitor. All that, and in the end, I couldn't care less about plight Blade and J.C.

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Posted on: September 9, 2025

Kabal_Valentine

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Sin is awesome and fun at the same time

Fun game. Blast from the past ! they should remade or remaster this game. Sin needs to come back to modern gamers

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Posted on: February 8, 2020

rs060877

Jeux: 58 Avis: 1

It could have been good.

I bought this game a long time ago on CD but only recently started playing it. It's quite a mess really. Lots of bugs and bad design. You often die suddenly and with no idea how it happened. You can get stuck in doors. Sometimes you can't open doors because an enemy is behind it. Sometimes you get stuck in a hole, for example, and you have no choice but to load a saved game. Some areas are too dark and it's not obvious enough where you have to go or what you have to next. It could have been good. I like the characters and the story. I think it deserves a remake one day if it can be done well.

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