Crusader: No Remorse™

This game was an innovative blast back in the day, taking a sci-fi gun based approach to Ultima 8: Pagan meets Syndicate with the cheesy FMV cutscenes of Red Alert. And it worked!...back in 1995. It really did age terribly though. You know how awkward it felt trying to go back to circle strafing with the keyboard in Doom after you had played Quake? Now imagine keyboard circle strafing in an isometric action game where your only quick movement option is "roll to the side 10 feet at a time". It's a mess. This was one of the first game's the have "enemies running around screaming on fire". You could also remote control robot kamikaze robot spiders to blow up hapless office workers. It made you giggle evilly back in the day, but it would be left behind less than 2 years later in those departments by all three of the Build engine games (Duke Nuken 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood). So you're left with a very primitive isometric Postal with awful controls that can't decide if it wants to be an action game or Twinsen's Oddessy. Sometimes it tries to be a platformer and O-M-G are those parts atrocious (the engine just isn't build for it). Get any of the Build engine games, Postal, or Syndicate over this. I was in love with this game for half a year back in the day, and even I can't play more than 5 minutes without getting bored now. Trust me.

Finally the Boba Fett game I always wanted.

I played it for the first time and finished the whole thing. Great game, great soundtrack. Very atmospheric and immersive production. Live actors cutscenes are great. Throughout the game, I felt like a total tough guy. A phenomenal experience. As for the controls, I recommend that you use the keyboard itself. After a mission or two, it will be second nature to you. In some time I will come back to it on a higher difficulty level. 5/5

In my opinion crusader no remorse is a good game and not a very good one. If possible, I would give 3,5 of 5 stars. It was mostly fun at level of difficulty weekend warrior, but I don't think, I would ever come back to play it a second time. It's a very long and much too repetitive game. Pros: - cool dos action game - nice sci-fi setting and story line - good synthie music, but I turned the music off, because of the permanent and absolute nerving loops. - good arsenal of weapons, but I couldn't use the grenade gun. I couldn't figure out, which mistake I made. Cons: - absolutely bad aiming in a shooter. You need to save after nearly killing each enemy to be able to go on. - I often got stuck, mostly due to a red sensor I coudn't see often standing directly in front of it. I had to study youtube vids. This game dates back to a stone age era with no help like that in this time period and lame analog modems for internet services. - you need very good eyes to be able to find key cards - only buy it, if you are a good keyboard acrobat Now, I am going to play crusader no regret, which seems to be worse and even more difficult in my first impression.

First off yes the controls are bad. It's not the tank controls that are a the major problem, it's the autoaiming. It can be very difficult to hit people right in front of you for no apparent reason. This alone is a major negative that will turn most people off right away if they are not driven by nostalgia. If you stick with it though it's quite an enjoyable experience. I really liked the presentation and gameplay. Everything explodes, whether it is a barrel or just railing. It's super cheesy and I loved it. The level design and puzzles manage to be interesting, and I do agree with the characterization as "immersive". I would like to note that your mileage will vary _greatly_ depending on the difficulty level you choose, however. I played on level 2 of 4 (Weekend Warrior). According to the strategy guide the difference between 2 to 3 (which appears to be the intended normal difficulty) is absolutely massive - significantly increased loot from enemies and HALF damage. Even on Weekend Warrior the game got very difficult with significant save/reloads near the end, so I can only imagine how tedious it could get on 3.