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Ultima™ Underworld 1+2

One of the best of all time

This review is for Ultima Underworld 1, but any review I did for UW2 would have just as much praise. Quite simply, this is close to the best CRPG/dungeon crawler of all time. This game was revolutionary for its time and I spent many a long night playing this in the early 90s. It's old and it creaks, but its gameplay, story and immersion are rarely rivalled, even 30 years on. Not all is perfect though. Jumping is still a drama, and you get caught on walls and ledges a lot, but there are mods out there that make these things easier. But why is the GOG version of this game bundled in a Windows wrapper? To play it on Linux requires you to unrar the .gog file and run the installer that way - why was this even bundled as an .iso to begin with? It's not difficult to deal with, but it's annoying you have to at all.

7 gamers found this review helpful
Realms of the Haunting

Weird and wonderful

I've loved this game since it was released in 1996. I still own the CDs (it came on four CDs). It's weird, wonderful, and maintains a strange, threatening experience all the way to the end. Game-wise, it's a little odd. It's ostensibly an adventure game with many riddles and puzzles to solve, but it's structured as a first person shooter. Ammo, weapons and health are few and far between, which often forces you think about how to avoid encounters with much of the opposition. You get a sword early on, and I found it my go-to for most of the game. The story will be incoherent and jumbled until towards the end when it all makes gruesome sense. It's mostly propelled through FMV scenes and unlikely many games from the same time that utilised video, it's remarkably free of ham-acting and hand-wringing. This story will take you through some incredibly varied areas - you start out in a mansion, but will visits mausoleums, tombs, locations on other planes some of which are bizarre. There's certainly a lot to see and do in this game with very little repetition. In summary, it's weird and marvellous forgotten classic, and I'm glad GoG have it.

5 gamers found this review helpful
Gone Home

Illogical house exploration simulator

I'm not going to say much in regards to the ostensible heartfelt teenage love story going on in this "game". I'm not even going to talk about the marital disorder going on with the protagonist's parents - something 99.99% of reviews have overlooked in favour of the ooh-aah lesbian candyland. No, this "game" is very much like another "game" that was released recently - Dear Esther. They have a lot in common, these two "games". Both are largely non-interactive, short and not so sweet, non-entities. Wander around and the story unfolds - or something like that. You pay your money (and I hope you don't pay more than $5 for this - I was dumb and paid $17) and you've got two hours tops of walking around what has to be the most absurdly and nonsensically designed house I've seen in any game outside the horror genre. I mean seriously...this is a "game" set in the everyday 90s America - not Tamriel, not Transylvania, not Equestria, not Middle Earth. Yet, about 40% of this house is hidden behind secret doors. Say what? What ordinary, workaday, Middletown American lives in a twenty room house that follows no logical architectural plan known to mankind, where there are secret doors and passageways everywhere? Yet this crazy aspect of Gone Home does not really factor into the game. If I was a 19 year old girl coming home to a sprawling madhouse that has x amount of secret rooms and passageways, I'd be phoning the cops. No, you happily walk around this bizarre place without making any comment as if it's the most natural thing to do. Shit, everyone I know lives in a weird mansion/bungalow with secret rooms and corridors, what about you?

47 gamers found this review helpful
Legend of Grimrock

Great idea and semi-fun but...

Love that retro Lands of Lore/Stonekeep feel, but some of those puzzles came straight from Hell! It is fun until you encounter those godawful, brutal puzzles that'll you simultaneously ragequitting and smashing your keyboard. Not all of them are like that, but you WILL encounter the ones that are.

7 gamers found this review helpful
Alan Wake

Read the book instead

Read the book instead. Yes, that's right. Read the book. It's fun, it's light, it's brain candy and most of all, it's several orders of magnitude more enjoyable than this horrible, hard-to-control wearisome game. Terrible console-itis controls and viewpoint, point torch and shoot repeat-a-thon gameplay. I've been told there's a good story here. Sure there is - but when does it start? Run to the light! Avoid axe-wielding ghost thingies! Play keyboard Twister trying to reload a gun, reload a torch, dodge and shoot at the same time! Blah....like I said - read the book instead.

7 gamers found this review helpful