Posted on: November 11, 2011

beliar

Игр: 382 Отзывов: 11

Guilty pleasure

Chaser is in no way a perfect game, but I have a lot of fond memories playing in endlessly a long time ago, and upon replaying it I can say, that it still is hugely entertaining. In Chaser you are an amnesiac man waking up aboard a space station, that is suddenly attacked by hostile forces. The game will take you from space to Earth to gang turfs and deep see trenches to the cold wastes of Syberia and even exotic Mars. If I have to use one word to describe the game, it's "ambitious". Chaser starts with a bang and for the first half of the game engages in a non-stop heart-pounding action. However developers ran out of steam and after that the game becomes more bland and repetitive, storyline also suffers as a consequence. Still, I would consider it to be one of the strongest scenarios in an FPS. The game is fairly challenging and provides a lot of guns to help you. Even an easy difficulty setting is of quite moderate difficulty. Also the game is very long and might just be one of the longest first person shooters. The downside that in the end the game becomes repetitive and is quite buggy (nothing critical; some graphical glitches, ability to get stuck in walls, jumping doesn't work as intended...). Pros: Strong plot Memorable characters Engaging gameplay Varied missions (shoot them all levels, sniping levels, underwater levels, stealth levels) Very long Lots and varied weapons Graphics still look good even today Cons: Buggy The second half of the game is worse and becomes repetitive, design also suffers Underwater levels are notorious (though they are more irritating than actually difficult) Extremely unsatisfying ending Other: Voice acting is so bad, that it becomes good:-)

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Posted on: January 13, 2012

benman88

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Игр: 65 Отзывов: 5

You might finish this out of boredom

This game just really isn't very good. You can see how some of the elements might have come together for an entertaining experience but that doesn't happen here. I honestly can't see why someone would have given a positive rating on this one. The level design is repetative, the enemies are bland, the combat doesn't work very well, and the "bullet time" mechanic just doesn't add anything other than the chance not to have your butt handed to you by earily accurate gunshots. Seriously not fun, you'll resent yourself for even bothering to trudge through this one. I gave it 2 stars because it still works, it just basically sucks.

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Posted on: October 24, 2020

BalaclavaBandit

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Игр: Отзывов: 23

Old School FPS

I really don't understand the hatred towards this title, its a simply budget FPS with a large ARSENAL of weapons and some pretty fun fast movement around nice arenas and corridors. Yes the levels are long, but they are also extremely varied, if you are a fan of older FPS games from 2000-2005 I would say do it. Do not listen to the people parroting reviews they have seen from the likes of GMANLIVES and JAREK THE GAMING DRAGON

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Posted on: April 16, 2018

hamishpaulwilson

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Игр: 739 Отзывов: 1

Lacking the charm to be a flawed gem

Chaser starts poorly, featuring a few crappy stealth sections and oftentimes clunky gunplay. Chaser reminds me of the on-foot segments of Shogo in a way due to its tactic of forcing you to take on loads of almost identical weak hitscan enemies that nevertheless are capable of dealing significant damage. The main difference being that Shogo had charm, which Chaser lacks. Production values are also all over the place, with most of the focus seemingly being placed on long elaborate cutscenes while the rest of the game suffers from a lack of attention to detail. I was even able to jump off the map in one level. Interestingly the game featured a bullet time mechanic only a few years before F.E.A.R. did the exact same thing. What undermines it here though is that your own weapon also slows down substantially. Nothing sucks more than having to watch your character reload in slow motion. By the end of the game though it does average out to be decent, in spite of all of its pitfalls. If they had a made a game that was half as long but twice as polished they could have even had something close to exceptional on their hands, as when the gunplay works, like it did for the most part in the Soviet levels, it comes close to Return to Castle Wolfenstein in terms of sniping and tactical bliss. Sadly though most of the time it falls apart due to its overstretched ambition and cumbersome mechanics, not least the impotence of the game's explosives which really started to grate on me by the end, or the intricate platforming and navigation puzzles that just served to show off the game's unwieldiness. Still, compared to how weak the game began I am reasonably impressed with how it turned out by the end. It was certainly worth the measly few dollars I paid for it. By far the biggest strike against it is that it still lacks the charm needed to be a flawed gem.

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Posted on: December 8, 2021

shoboy

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Игр: 167 Отзывов: 5

good old school fun from early 2000's

First and foremost this was a mid priced "budget" title from early 2000's, so take your Half Lifes and Call of Duties and go home if you cant accept less then a AAA title. Chaser is a LONG game so you are getting your monies worth for playtime. It was one of if not the first games to have a "bullet time" and it is done very well. There are a LOT of weapons and they handle great. Levels are really big and take awhile to get through. In engine cut scenes are a bit long and they sometimes break the action in a negative way, but they are narrative related. Graphics were pretty good for the time with a couple of clipping issues here and there but that was the normal back then. Yeah the dialog and overall story was cheesy and lame yet it doesn't ruin the gun shooting action and mayhem that this game has in spades. And AGAIN, this was early 2000's. The one thing that this game was notorious for, and has been mentioned already in most every review, is the enemy respawns and spawning in from nowhere. Even on EASY they have deadnuts accuracy and do more damage than they should on the EASY setting. Health is readily available though, but still, thier aim is unforgiving. This adds to the almost contant action but it does get repetative since this is in reality a pretty big game. Nowadays it's a great bargin for the price and a solid throwback to old school shooters. There was a time where the FPS was the king of PC games and hundreds of them were made. This one was a mid level, budget priced game, and it shows, but it has some qualities to it that many games of that day didn't have or didn't do well. It is worth your time and money, just put away your experiences from modern games and you'll enjoy this gem of nostalgia shooters.

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