Just beat it on Realistic, wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. First time ever playing the game by the way. Sooo... how does one of the most acclaimed titles in gaming history hold up? Pretty damn well. The best thing about it is how addictive and fun it is, you almost always make progress and there's some well-earned satisfaction when you complete a mission. And it's not frustrating, mostly due to the now-extinct save-when-you-like system; whenever you die it takes you longer to actually press the quick load button than for the game to actually load it. It's also cool to have all those RPG elements, different paths to choose from, side quests you can take or ignore. Pretty standard these days but I imagine it to be quite a shocker back in 2000. But then there's stuff DX doesn't do well. The story, while interesting, doesn't really deviate from the course you'd expect it to take right at the start and the plot twists alog the way range from "I saw that coming" to "Well, I guess she might have been with the bad guys all along". The characters are one-dimensional, forgettable and easy to confuse, especially our protagonist, who in terms of blandness could give Keanu Reeves a run for his money. The voice acting is half-decent with a bunch of over-the-top accents that make you question the hardcore sci-fi atmosphre around you. The graphics failed to impress even at release and the enemy AI is a joke. So what if they ring an alarm? I'll just sit this one through and it's gonna be like they never saw me in the first place. And don't even get me started on the Bethesda-proportion bugs and glitches that infest every corner of the game. With all that in mind, I still enjoyed it. But no, it's not a masterpiece: DX simply takes way too many missteps for me to be able to count it among the real works of gaming art, such as KotOR. Give it a try nonetheless and don't worry about the difficulty, the game's not that hard. Trust me, I'm a noob.
