Posted on: June 26, 2011
beemfx
Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: Opinie: 7
Bad Level Desgin
Dare I do the unthinkable, and give a GOG.com game a bad review? Yes, I do. This game has some of the worst level design I have ever seen. You wander around aimlessly for hours on end trying to find "keys". Eventually you might find a key, most likely you wont. This review will only cover the first game in the series. I originally played this game when it came out, and I never got past the first level. That's right. I never got past the first level. I couldn't find any keys. Keep in mind this was back when the internet wasn't as big as it is today, so finding a walkthrough wasn't even a possibility for me. I did find the cheat codes and ended up cheating my way through the game. "rdstuff" solves the "keys" problem right away. I recently re-purchased the game on GOG, and you know what? The level design was just as bad as I remembered. I couldn't make it past the first level, just like I couldn't over ten years ago. Luckily I had the internet and managed to find a walk through. And for once I made it past the first level without cheating. I ended up playing through the entire first episode. I was proud of myself for making it all the way through without cheating. That said, I had to refer to a walkthrough on pretty much every level because the design is so confusing. Let me elaborate, you have to blow the environment up with dynamite to find certain keys and there is no obvious indication that you need to throw some dynamite (some will argue that a "crack" is barely visible on the wall, argue all you want I say, "barely visible" doesn't cut it, Duke Nukem 3D didn't have that problem when you could blow something up). A first person shooter should never require a walkthrough. The level design should be coherent. In this game it is not. Aside from the bad level design this game is insanely difficult. I can only imagine how difficult it was during a time when people weren't using WASD controls. Heck, I think that's why I gave up and cheated when I first played it, I was probably using the arrow keys to turn. I don't know how much I can criticize the difficulty. It makes the game not fun, is all I can say. Like I said I made it through the first episode without cheating. On the second episode, however, the walkthrough I was reading actually said to modify USER.CON in order to make the enemies less difficult. The walkthrough said to cheat! That is how hard this game is. I am talking about the second easiest difficulty setting, the default setting. I cheated through the second episode. Now, let me move onto the cuss pack, which is actually the main reason I bought the game on GOG.com. You see, when I originally played the game you had to buy the cuss pack from interplay for a buck just to prove you were old enough to have a credit card. Well I was sixteen, so I didn't get it, needless to say I was pretty excited to see what this cuss pack was all about. The cuss pack sucks $@!!s worse than fleas on moon pie. I'm restraining myself when I say that. I mean, don't get me wrong, it was hilarious to hear all the cussing at first, but it doesn't stop. I mean literally you hear a taunt full of cusses, "get the bleep of my land", then you hear it again, then you hear it again, then again, and again... It literally never stops. It is so annoying. It is insanely annoying. I mean, I got some laughs out of it, but then I was starting to go as insane as those alien mutants I was fighting. I found myself yelling more than they were yelling. I was screaming at this game so loud my neighbors knocked on my door and asked if I wouldn't mine being a little more quiet. Finally, I uninstalled the cuss pack. Then those aliens calmed down a bit. Well, that's really all I can say about this game. I think it was a great idea on paper, but in action it is just annoying. If it weren't for the bad level design, it might actually be alright. I say give it a try. Heck, it is one of those early controversial classics. Play it for a few minutes. Then cheat. Cheat your heart out, I say. The game is actually kind of fun when you cheat.
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