That's my take on the advertising blurb on this game's store page and the seething miasma of positive fanboi reviews, a lot of rectums have shat many a review here! I mean, How the holy F did this get multiple "Best Game Of All Time" awards? The graphics are ugly, as are the sounds and music, the UI absolutely STINKS, you can not see enemies nor your units inside or behind buildings and the difficulty / tedium level goes of the scale after 10 or so missions. It's repetitive too. It's just a much less cerebral Cannon Fodder type game or rather low quality. Ok, maybe in 93 I'd have seen it differently. I did actually play this in the late 90's and was not impressed even then - and had to use cheats all the way through. BTW I wasn't daft enough to actually *buy* this, it came free. Good job! PS/ Other bad review issues such as "Origin DRM", "lack of American Revolt DLC" and "DosBox" - well I've not seen this "Origin" at all, so GOG seem to have removed it, the DLC is now included, and I don't mind DosBox - no my issue is that it is a poor game.
EXCREMENT!
£15 for a 10Mb download? This adds nothing. NOTHING. To an already exremental smear of a game that is also nothing. FU Arcen!
This is the FIFTH review of MoO3 I've posted in the past few months. All the previous four have mysteriously "vanished". No notification from GOG they've been removed for "violating guidelines" or antthing like that. Just "vanished". It's not the only game's reviews I've been suffering this with recently. Well, MoO3 is EXCRETA! And that's the "bottom" line. Get it? Is that ok? Nothing breaks "da rulez"? Oh, don't forget to hit the "no" button......
I was enthralled by Heretic back in 1996 when I first discovered it. That was only the shareware version with just the first episode. I liked the colourful well designed maps coupled with a refreshing different theme from Doom and Doom2. The weapons were ok, but the "tome of power" giving each one of them a much more powerful alternate fire mode was a great idea. The "hellstaff" was particularly OP when powered up! But what really got me was the MIDI music. Masterpieces! Only beaten by Hexen and then Descent. Over the past 25yrs I've played Heretic's first three episodes at least 20 times. And here's two more new ones! Those though, could have been better....... at first they seemed like a collection on unrelated, disparate maps dragged off the internet bundled in "two new episodes". The severe difficulty level of them made me think that, as that was an all too common problem with 3rd party maps. They added no new music, scenery, enemies, weapons etc. So they were rather disappointing. If I'd bought those as an expansion alone they'd only be getting 3 stars. The shitty DosBox port that GOG are peddling as standard here gets 1 star. It is shit! It is unplayable "out of the box". WTF GOG? As everyone else has already advised. Get GZDoom and run it through that. Link is in the forums!
Don't forget to negrep this review as it's not conforming to expected woke beliefs that this is a 5-star "bezt gam eva", so this review needs to be cancelled. The second, the very second the game ran and I saw the almost unreadable ugly text of the options menu I thought, "eeeeyuk". Starting the game did not improve things. The low res, low poly old Quake engine just does not do it. Think "Blood II" and it's "Monolith" engine. This looks just as bad. I could not get the resolution/depth to change. Colours are brown brown and more brown, with a dash of grey, as per the original Quake games (which I "blasphemously" thought were crap too). It was just hideous to look at. What little level design I did see was poor, boring. Combat was clumsy and just, nope. Music was not a patch on it's predecessors. It should have kept their old original game engine. That would have left Hexen II behind the times, but also made it a much better game. This really is the "Blood II" of the "Heretic/Hexen" series. Don't forget, all you 5-star reviewers, be offended, hit the negrep button, everyone else does on all my reviews. Heck, even hit the report button, there's nothing here to break GOG's "guidelines", but you never know.....
Difficulty lets this down, I'm not so positive or praising of this approach as some other reviewers. These new levels remind me of the kind of hurrrrrdurrrhurrhurrr difficulty of troll levels submitted by zit-squeezing, bogey picking (and eating) Beavis and Buttheads on map download websites back in the day. (If you're one, don't forget to hit the "no" button under this review!) Of course these have the technical quality and cleverness those morons could not even reach 1% of, but they have the same stupid difficulty. I'm playing on difficulty 4/wizard (level and I am struggling enormously and are about the throw in the towel..... I'm still only at the beginning. I've already had to seriously spam many of the cheats. Don't know what they play like on the easiest difficulty 1 and 2 levels..... I am probably going to have to admit defeat and start from square one on those! One of the worst ideas behind all these levels is the heavy usage of infinitely respawning enemies. Make it play like Doom and Doom 2 on it's stupid "Nightmare" level. The original Hexen levels used that feature, but nowhere to the extent these do.
This is the EIGHTH review oof mine I know of that has just disappeared. This time however, unlike the others, this one was a praiseworthy 4-star review. Well, I will re-state that this is indeed a good game, even if it's developer was one notorious for bad customer treatment, draconian DRM etc. Those are not such an issue with this GOG variant though. In fact I think I did mention this in my previous review for Earth 2160 - and had done so in some of the other that have just "disappeared". Is THAT the reason for all the censorship then? It is by far better than Earth 2140 and 2150 which I considered terrible, despite the raving reviews they got. The level editor also gives this game longevity beyond just playing it's campaign scenarios. The skirmish scenarios are poor though, due to cheating AI (in campaigns the AI behaviour was more controlled by scripting, and played fair) and general "rush,rush,rush" tactics.
My previous review for this game is the SEVENTH example, that I know of, in which my reviews have been "quietly removed", for no reasons, nor notification from any GOG moderation staff. "Coincidentally" one of the others was a game from the same developer as "Nexus" here, that was my review for "Imperium Galactica". One common theme is that they were all 1-star reviews. Except for one 2-star review that was also removed. Another common theme is the use of the word "faeces" in the review title. But that is not a "swear" word. Certainly NOTHING like compared to the bad language in hundreds of other reviews that have NOT been censored. I am a thinking of submitting a formal complaint to GOG about it....... even if it is something as mudane as a simple glitch. This deleting of my reviews has been going on for 12 months now though. Someone, somehwere has a grudge I think. As for the game, why should I bother making the more effort than to simply re-state that it is a truly awful game, the awful UI and extreme difficulty being the main reasons? I expect this review to only "disappear" again....... some of my reviews I think HAVE been removed more than once now.
