I like the flow of this game, movement is rather fluent but sometimes I got lost, didn't know where to go. Fighting and shooting are ok, you don't play as a warrior, so you should avoid fighting, but when you have to, it's allright. The story is basic and very short, but these 2d animated cutscenes look great
Just played for the first time, as I played witcher 2 and 3 and couldn't just leave 1 behind. Actually very good story, it has more in common with the masterpiece of witcher 3 than witcher 2 and it feels much better game overal than witcher 2 in my opinion. Lots of interesting sidequests, fun story, well designed characters. The dialogues feel a bit stiff. The controls are very wonky, strange idea to implement a fusion of TPP and isometrical view, not gonna lie, I raged a lot during the combat. But nonethless I had a lot of fun playing this game. Definitely must play for witcher fans and worth trying for any RPG maniac.
I bought this game because I heard that Deus Ex series is quite good. I've never played thjs game before, so it has no nostalgic value or stuff like this for me. I actually haven't expected from this game such story. It is quite long and i have to say it's engaging, I wasn't bored playing, progression is good. You even have the influence on how some events will end up with your decisions, and you can finish the game on 3 different ways, so that's actually gread for a game from 2000. Locations are ok, most of the game takes place inside buildings, but they are quite complex and allow you to complete the missions with different styles. You can go rambo mode and shoot everything, you can move silently through vents and avoid enemies, you can hack computers and defences - it's up to you. I won't judge the graphics. I can't demand any breathtaking views from a 21 years old game. But it doesn't look ugly, it's just old. My only issue is that this game is insanely dark. As it is an RPG game, there are some upgrades available in a form of augmentations - nanotechnology that enhances your character. There are a lot of them so you can select wide range of skills which will fit your playstyle, but they are divided in a categories for every limb. And if you select one augmentation from a category, you won't be able to pick another one, so you will have to think what you will need. There is also good range of weapon upgrades, which are very useful. I went for an aggresive playstyle, exterminating everything i could. And I got frustrated with the fighting in this game. It takes long time to aim at something without top tier skills. NPCs run in some weird patterns (looks to me like not the best pathfinding), so you can shoot quickly at them because they are very hard to hit while moving. Hitting something in melee is almost a miracle. Best is to take down enemies from a distance when they don't see you with a headshot. Not a fan. It's good and fun game, but requires patience.
The game is actually really enjoyable for me. Love the setting in early middle ages, we have good variety of nations in the game, missions can be very satisfying and take quite some time, I like it. Technically it is perfect. I haven't met any major bug or crash, no frame drops. Only sometimes I had an opportunity to see a dead, t-posing soldier hung like 20 meters above the ground. :D Unfortunately it is a very rough, unpolished gem when it comes to the design of the game. Yes, the campaigns are very different from each other in case of setting and story. but gameplay-wise there are a lot of copy and paste scenarios I would say. There are a lot of missions which are basically designed like this - "Hey, here you go, some starting troops. Capture this village, then you can start developing your base and capture other villages to finally destroy enemy camp." So the campaign can get repetitive. Also, some campaigns have very complex and time consuming missions, like the campaign of Saladin, and on the other hand we have the Mieszko campaing, which is very disappointing for me. Very fast, quite repetitive and not really satisfactory. But overall I enjoyed the story. What I hated the most is the army management. Allowing player to have only 10 units. I really wanted to create an army with variety of troops, but I wouldn't have enough warriors in larger battles so I just ended up recruiting full stack of spearmen - they are OP imo, very strong unit, can withstand anything in battle. There's no point to have archers or cav - you can rush anything with only spearmen and actually it works the best. Third, all nations have very similar rosters, so there is no tactics, which nation can overcome other etc. There are problems with selecting troops, sometimes you give orders to an unit you didn't selected. Micromanagement - I hate that I cannot pull back unit from fight without retreating it. To sum up, I'd say it is a solid game, but has it's issues. Worth getting on sale.
Really good game, great climate, fun quests and dialogues, I enjoyed every minute playing it
