This game is incredible - it is like an apparition from another time. Gunplay is great, guns sound and feel great, with more weapons your tactical possibilities grow, hitboxes allow headshots on sprite enemies, all the sprites are beautifully detailed, voxel models are beautiful.. but there is more! Main protagonist is great, as good as Duke Nukem or Caleb - cracking one-liners (and good ones), she feels to be at home right in the action. Difficulty is set great - i think it is on par with Blood or Shadow Warrior. I did not play on easy, but I guess it is just you wandering among isolated enemise. On medium, you are allowed to make mistakes, but not many. On hard, you should really pay attention and avoid being hit by grenades and laser bow projectiles at all costs. And on insane the real fun starts, but you should never stop running, use weapons properly and save often :) If you know something about build engine, you will be amazed by the level of detail and clever design of maps. But more than that, you will feel that this is a living world - the lab is not just a lab, you will see exactly the purpose of the lab, etc. Details like posters, supported by healthy dose of easter eggs makes this 5* game. And the levels are consistently great, I even think they are getting even better towards the end of the game. No rushed development here! For me the weakest thing is the music: it is fitting and actually good, but I switched to metal and rock anyway :) When the greatest weakness is good music, you know this game is a gem :) I dont think that I should be mentioning bugs as I believe these will be fixed soon (if not already), but: After one boss fight, game slowed to 15fps until I left the map(?), did not see this bug again ever. And after update, my older saves were gone and I had to restart from save point, but I guess this will not be an issue for someone playing after the update:) I recommend this game to all who enjoyed Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Shadow Warrior,.
Wow.. I was kind of sceptical when remake (or even worse, reboot, that dreaded word..) of my favourite game was announced. But this demo shows what I think System Shock would look like if done today. And I love it :D However, there is a speed flaws yet, mainly because of the Unity engine used I think. The game looks great, appart from System Shock itself, it has this Bioshock feel to it (NOT a flaw). Yet compared to Bioshock, textures are a bit more blurry (not a problem, also this is an early demo, so I suppose the textures will only get better) and the game runs a lot slower (BIG problem for me), I guess Unity is much more demanding than Unreal engine. But the potential to make modern version of System Shock without cripling it by some modern trends is there :D Btw, original System Shock is for me still the greatest game of all times, I just replayed it recently and was amazed how great it holds against current games.
Awesome game! Don't get fooled by cute and clean hand-drawn graphics or simplicity of first few duels, this game is definitely not childish :) Rules of card game are simple, yet cards are plenty and their combinations are countless. Progress of the story is steady and somewhat predictable, but the strength of the game lies in collecting cards and building decks - and these are rock solid. If you like games like Arcomage from Might&Magic, you will love this one as well, If only GOG.com added the print-and-play template to the goodies ... pretty please?
