I played this back when Westwood was still around, and with some changing and fiddling of settings, the GoG version works just as well as it did back in the day. For this, I'd give it 4 out of 5 only because it's not "install and play" capable. While this is my first review, the reason for it is because I recently became aware of a project called "OpenNox". It's a community created update that changes very little to the overall game, but makes it "Install, copy over, and play" capable. It also restores server capabilities, and there's even a few people online in open servers. Blew me away, and was thrilled to see it. This game, along with Doom, started my gaming hobby. All of this aside, assuming that you're curious about the game as a whole before buying. It's an over all great aRPG. The story has a bit of the good old Westwood humor, but is still serious enough to still be a story. There over all are three stories at the start, but all three stories converge at a point for the same ending. Depending on what class you pick, you go through that classes story and that classes starting "city". And depending on which you pick, there are different allies and enemies. Warriors and Wizards hate each other, and Conjurers are mostly chilling on the sidelines. Online play can be done one of two ways. Either in PvP arena's that can be anything from death matches, capture the flag, king of the hill, or even last man standing. Or, you can do a "Quest", which is a series of generated PvE levels that to my knowledge, go up indefinitely. While there is respawning, it has its own "hard core" mechanic with there being a limited amount of lives. You can buy more lives at shops, but they're a pricy 50,000 gold. This was always my favorite way to play, as it was easy and fun making friends and going on "Adventures" with them. So if you have $10 sitting around and are looking for something to play. This is a great one that can still be played online with a quick update, today.
