I love this game in every way. The story telling, modability for resolution and gunplay BUT The menu has mouse problems where up and down doesn't work. The game is made for 4:3 so THERE is the second BUT play it on a PS2 (or xbox) with a Sony PVM Crt monitor (or a normal crt which is made before the cheap 2000s crt) and enjoy one of the most beautiful games in standart definition.
This game could have been like Serious Sam, Doom or Quake (or like other old school shooters) but the BORING weapons, forced small ammo count that is even worse than the Stalker games with Misery or Anomaly Mod (hardcore survival mods) make the game much worse than any old school shooter difficulty. You warp through the galaxy to get the keycard get access to the main base, I think, and you are free to move to the right as much as you want because the ships seem pregenerated or repopulated after every death, so that every new ship is different but past ships are the same? Here comes the problem. By being able to choose any ship to raid you can skip large parts of the galaxy. There is no penalty for moving to an other ship like you get attacked in FTL. You seem to be always safe in your little ship but can drift without fuel and die of hunger. I also do not get the feeling from System Shock (less in Prey - is cheaper to me) - being scared by enemies because you are not safe and enemies are everywhere... All in all you just bunny hop through every ship. Do not really feel your damage meter draining and having like 20 bullets is worse than any Stalker hardcore mod. Do not buy it if you want an oldschool shooter or a FTL feeling. This game is extremely empty, sadly!
This game is better than Amid Evil. Why? It is easily answered. The weapons are meater, harsh and hard hitting. Enemies do good amounts of damage. Amid Evil is good and uses a great Unreal Engine Filter (wrong term in that game) but misses on old-school weapon choice. In Dusk you get everything. Handguns, Shotguns, Maschine Rifle that makes Doom weapons look old, Bolt Action RIfles, Rocket Launcher etc. The Enemies are far more likeable than Amid Evil, where in my opinion, the level quickly get too long but here it feels fast, dark and Bloody, pun intended. It feels like playing Silent Hill 1 combined with Blood but with the eye cancer from Wolfenstein 3D only when playing on 8-bit Resolution Filter. The music is just awsome. The areas varied. Just buy it if you like old-school schooters.
The rope feature and bad reset points when doing things wrong shows that many PS2 games are better than this good PC port game. It did not age well and can not deal with the story and pacing. My main unstall point is then running away from town and getting aimed at by the old civil war dude with the double barrel shotgun. After two resets I looked around the house slided down on accident and got insta-killed by world / kill trigger. The game is many times worse than Deus Ex 2 imo. Area 51 on PS2 Xbox and PC is more fun than this.
I started this game to hope to get something between Skyrim (prefer real RPG like Deus Ex or Witcher) and X3 and similar space games which are not that hardcore - the combo would be a good game to relax but THEN THEN the controls with controller are worse than anything Ive experienced. Do you remember the PS1 game G-Police? G-Police has the best controls for just flying a police Bladerunner style combat helicopter with thrusters. With mouse you strangely pull the plane to your destination but the mouse doesnt center so it is not like any PC or controller plane controlls were you just move your mouse where you want to fly BUT BUT not in this game!!! the plane will continue to fly to the location where you mouse curser got moved on so in other words your ship tries to fly from the center of the screen to you mouse curser IT DOESNT CENTER YOU WILL ALWAYS TURN UNTIL YOU MOVE YOUR MOUSE INTO THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN The discovering has no real goal. Minecraft and 7 Days To Die has more reasons to work to achieve your goals. Subnautica is better too. I only have the E.S. version. I do not want to support E. with its store... but played for a few minutes months ago and gave me more goals than this game will ever have. YOU CAN still not fly normally without auto-landing. No first person. No hypeing Armor, weapons or things in general. It looks just like a bad asset-flipped unity game that doesnt work. IT IS REALLY THAT BAD. THE PRESS AND STREAMERS WERE RIGHT. I thought I would get Zelda Breath of the Wild (btw didnt like the bad 5min gamedesign for people on the go but it was nice like Skyrim or Factorio) but this game is worse than any clicker game because there is no real goal. Even Star Citizen-like games have reasons to play not this and cant explain who would like this xD
This game may be the best modern old school shooter yet! The start feels like Hexen... The worlds will change more to serious sam Egypt style then to Unreal Gold with its castles and sky worlds then to quake with its sewer like worlds and then to Unreal Gold with its high chirch. It is really hard to explain the world but it is so good. Ion Fury seems more like a coppy and paste game. This game has unique magic based weapons somewhat to hexen. The difficulty is perfect but the game is really energy draining. Serious Sam in comparison is a holliday. Doom like primary school. What I want to say this game is fast and well crafted.
The first game was one of the first games Ive played like RTC Wolfentein, Medal of Honor, Call of Duty1 and Halo. I always liked the first and Black Hawk Down game. This is boring and even bigger in map size and even a 3rd party game ?!
I guess this game is better than the first one that I ve played often when I was a kid but the Agypt map was not fun for me so I stopped playing.
You play missions that only tell a story based on what you experience. No real story but simple fun. Destroy this. Eliminate these targets. Stop a convoy .... This game is worse than Ghost Recon 1 imo but the fun level is somehow higher with a lower level quality. The first game somehow works better than the Delta Force 2 game on my PC.
The first Delta Force game can be still fun but all other (maybe DF 2) aged very badly. The games start in a window for the mainscreen which gets replaced by a window for the game world etc. It is the Deus Ex 2 thing. Windows always resets the resolution over and over again. The world is even worse than I've remembered. This game imo is hard but mainly because the cities and other locations are so barebone and without atmosphere. Buy the first two games not any other DF game. Ghost Recon 1 even is better and came out on PC, PS2 (fun but low resolution but prefer it over the pc version) and xbox. GR is great and has a much better story. I am not looking for a story. I love older games where you experience your own war story without a narrator like Medal of Honor, Call of Duty 1 / 2 and similar games. Even Hitman 1-3 are kinda a "Experience your own story - game".
