It's the antidote to every shooter you ever played where you breeze on through killing wave after wave of disposable storm troopers, foreigners, or robots. It's the shooter that reminds you that you should think about killing even if it's a video game. Killing is abhorrent, and this game will make sure you remember that.
After the last two games by another company (and that forgettable Reloaded game) it's insane, impossible, but it's happened: someone has made a good LSL game again. It's funny as all get out, lewd and bawdy but never really "x-rated" like the AO version of Magna Cum Laude or what have you. It's got good silly juvenile humor, but it's also not afraid to let Larry be a likeable character, or to let him grow and learn. The voice acting's great, the music is amazing! And the art style is cute, albeit with no cutscenes of any note (just pictures) so it's a bit low-tech of a game, but that doesn't matter to adventure games as much. It's also NOT short. Really, I can't say enough good things about this. It'd be a good adventure game even for someone who had entirely given up on anyone ever making a good LSL game again.
Not only a new cast and a pretty ok space drama, but also good solid shooting and space battling! Not as good as Freespace that totally showed it up a year later, but it was a good last gasp for the FMV games. It was also one of the first games to try downloadable content.
Seriously, it's a great game. Good action, brutal melee combat, the atmosphere is pure Unreal engine goodness at its finest (for the day). But this is a rare case of a game that's just overstuffed. Huge long levels and too many of them. It wears out its welcome by the end, but it' sfun for the first 10 hours!
it's not a great game, if only because it consists entirely of crappy minigames. It's also not a bad game, because it has some of the most surreal, gut-bustingly funny moments I can recall in gaming history. I also loved the college dorm atmos, which seemed very well done, and the voice acting was universally praise-worthy. Really, if you want some amazingly good humor and don't mind that you're playing a bad game to get it, it's worth it for the laughs.
Few games are genuinely scary or unnerving, but Undying was one of them. It had an atmosphere that to this day has hardly ever been equaled. Too bad it's half the game it was meant to be...literally. Undying was truncated by a shortened development time and thus the first sibling takes up 2/3s of the game and the others are very quickly dispatched in comparison. IF the team hadn't run out of time this would've been an even more amazing game. It's still amazing, but it's sad to think what could've been. Also it sold very badly, so EA cancelled the multiplayer patch and sequel.
well, i gave up and used a fan patch and my old cd last year so I ain't buyin..but it's utterly worth it if you can't find your old disc, don't have it anymore, or have never played it. one of the best action-RPGs ever, the game that inspired Deus Ex, and the horror game to end all horror games. The kind of game that you finish and realize you'll never see anything that good again.
I suppose you could add this for a historical snapshot of the 90s gaming scene, or just as a look at how badly hubris can write checks that talent can't cash. Daikatana is the most famous disaster in gaming history, so bad it makes Duke Nukem Forever look like genius in comparison, at least that one had SOME fun moments. This disaster has none. Worth playing only as a historical curiousity, or if you really hate yourself.