DROKK! The idea is great, but the excecution is clunky. I believe Rebellion did the best that they could in 2003, however, I was suprised on how quick you can beat this game. The jump feature only works if I press space about 3 times, I found on a forum that this possibly has to do with Direct 8/9 wrapper missing. Rather than messing that I settled for the broken jumping. The Good: If you're a fan of the comic book series, they did a great job in the sublte references they put through out the game, The arrest feature is a lot of fun as well. The Lawgiver is a solid weapon, with multiple fire modes, yes you have a secondary weapon but other than the shotgun I barely used any of the other weapons. The soundtrack is awesome, nice mixure of ambient, techno, metal etc. The Bad: The Law Meter can be annoying, if you use high explosives, your "arrest" score will plummit and the mission will fail.,..Then why offer explosives? No map, can get easily lost. Medkits and ammo are a little sparse. The Ugly: The game throws a lot of enemies at you, which is kind of a cheap move, to artificially extend the game time. Happy I bought it, but I strongly recommend you wait for it on sale. Go take down some perps and send them to the ISO-CUBES! BE THE LAW!!
I had this game on disc back in 2003, played it a few times, but never really got past D-Day. 18 years later and this go around is more frustrating than a trip down memory lane. Spent over an hour getting the game to run, after researching found a fix for it, and it runs, but not the greatest. It stutters a lot, especially during the D-Day invasion. Also, I find it quite annoying that every time I'm shot, first person view goes bonkers. The enemies have incredibly accurate shooting, yet I've shot them dead in the head, and they kneeled and got back up...really? Either that, or they are bullet sponges, I ran out of ammo constantly, and the reload time for weapons is atrocious. For a game released for PC in 2002, I found the graphics to be extremely lacking in detail. It feels like a console game slapped on to a PC. A year earlier Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out, and the game play and graphics were far superior, so what's EA's excuse? Enough about the bad, the good is, the game does a great job making you feel like you are a solider in World War II, especially with the high quality soundtrack, level briefings, and ambiance. Their are a lot of movie references in the game, like the Sub Base & Uboat are lifted straight out of Das Boot. D-Day level is a tribute to Saving Private Ryan. I imagine if you're an older gamer you may find the short comings of this game are just par for the course. It will bring you back to the days of Pentium 3's and PS2's. However, if you're a newer gamer, the experience alone to get this sucker running may not be worth it.
