Excellent game that holds up extremely well even today. Might not be as complex and fast as its sequel DOOM Eternal, but it has a unique vibe that not even the sequel was able to fully replicate
I played this back when it was released, when I was just a teen. I found the story in general to be quite interesting and fun, but never thought too much of it. When I saw it was on GOG, I wanted to play it again out of nostalgia and now I like it even more. The world building is great, characters are really good, especially Bigby, and the art style is perfect: I have never read the comics, but visually it fits the world and tone like a glove. If you have not played it yet, I highly recommend you give it a try at the very least, especially for how cheap it is nowadays even at full price. I hope it gets a second season soon.
Mirror's Edge is really good. It is pretty short, but this, in addition to an excellent level design, makes the game extremely replayable. The music, graphics and specially the gameplay are top tier, by far the best aspects of the game. You truly feel the weight and speed of Faith's movements, and the "flow" mechanic (the longer you run/jump uninterrupted, the faster you go) is very rewarding. The story, although kind of interesting and not bad overall, is not great by any means, and character development is basically non existent. This is not really a problem, though: similar to a DOOM game, no one plays it for the story or the compelling characters. However, the reason I'm not giving this a 5 star rating is the mouse controls (if you are going to use a controller you can skip this paragraph). The only way to fine tune sensitivity is by going to the game files and setting a keybind to change mouse sensitivity to a specific value manually every time you load a level. Turning off mouse acceleration is a bit easier since it only requires to change one line of code from "true" to "false" in the same file, but it's still far from ideal. That being said, I understand this is a very old game, so it doesn't bother me that much, but it can be a bit annoying for today standards. I just want to let new players know that this is not a simple "install and play" experience, but it requires some not so user friendly adjustments to enjoy to the fullest. Once you get past all of that, it is an underrated classic.
After 2.0 update, the game has improved quite a lot for me. Combat is way more fun than before and the presentation overall is more polished. The city still feels a bit empty in terms of the things you can do, but everything else is good.
