

Every time I try to get into this game, I give up in frustration with the deeply unintuitive control scheme. You cannot run sideways or strafe in the Windows version! Instead you rotate the character and ALWAYS run FORWARD or backwards, meaning precision movement is impossible. The PC moves like a trauma patient trying to do pirouettes. The developers deserve flack for screwing up the game like that, which otherwise would be decent fun.

I think the game is stellar and I am looking forward to additional content and patches. I don't get the whining about an online key though. Gating official servers helps keep operating costs manageable and the community limited to paying customers. I see no problem with that. The game has zero copy protection, so it's hardly a big deal. Online access, rather, is an added bonus. The game works just fine in offline mode.