Ah....I remember this game. Tons of hype around it, the beginning of an epic trilogy. I pre-ordered it, had the highest hopes for it, but it just...sucked. I can't even remember why it sucked, in fact there's nothing memorable in this entire game. I'm not interested in going back and reliving why this game was so sub-par and both sequels were cancelled. It's a generic third person shooter, the story didn't really suck, but it was simply OK. Nothing to see here. If it wasn't good then, I don't see how the age could have made it any better.
When I was growing up Jowood was synonymous with making some of the most craptastic and cheapest games on the market. Even as a kid I realized anything with that little blue Jowood symbol should be utterly avoided. CompUSA used to literally give all the Jowood games away with mail-in-rebates in their circulars. I got almost all of Jowoods games for free and still hated them. The Nations was probably their best game...it has some neat ideas...but the Jowood ineptitude inevitably surfaces. Never could even recommend this game for free..let alone paying over 5 dollars for it. Ugh. Two stars because it stands slightly above their other horrible titles.
This game came with the first PC my dad ever bought along with a little known futuristic flight game called Hellbender. A Compaq I believe, and I think it cost over 3000 dollars (WOW how things have changed). I would play the hell out of this game and for its time it was fairly unique and fun. It conveyed a pretty good sense of atmosphere and I always really liked the vehicle models and music. Would be fun to play again just for the nostalgia of it, but I'm not sure I'd ever come back to it after reminiscing for a couple hours. There's simply not a whole lot to it.
