This is such a polished Quake-like retro FPS. The only bad thing about this game is that the first levels are really pretty with a lot of vegetation, houses, barns and environments that feel human, but the further you get, the more drab and boring the environments become. Since this seems to be the case with most FPS games, I guess other people love it. I suppose it gives people without a soul a sense of progression and excitement when their surroundings become increasingly depressing, but it's not for me. But that aside, the game plays great and it doesn't really have any flaws except the ever increasing drabness escalation. I definitely recommend Dusk, but Chop Goblins from the same dev is still way better.
I've never bought a game on GOG before but when I saw this I just had to buy it. This is the bare-bones, old school Resident Evil experience, and I love it. I don't think I need to get into how great this game is, so I will mention a couple things that this version lacks that would have made the experience even better: • Achievements. Many gamers have already played through this game a whole bunch of times since the original release in 1996 (if I remember correctly). Achievements would have made it even more worthwile for some of us. • I need to turn on my Xbox Series controller before launching the game for it to work, and if I pause the game and the controller turns itself off after a few minutes of inactivity, I can't get it to work again. This can mean that you need to waste an ink ribbon, close the app and load your save, since some stuff won't work anymore. Like running, for example. • This didn't matter back in the day when TV sets were really low-res, but playing on a high resolution monitor when the static background images/environments are so low res makes it too obvious which objects you can interact with, because polygon objects look way sharper and stand out from the static backgrounds. This is not a major deal but don't they have the background images with higher resolution saved somewhere? And if not, couldn't they have used AI upscaling or something? But these flaws aside, this is a fantastic experience and a piece of video game history. If you haven't played the original trilogy, just go ahead and buy this! I hope they will release Code Veronica next.
