An interesting premise, but the combat is annoying and gets stale really fast and the game is riddled with bugs. Omg the bugs... the most interesting for me was that you can't start a new game, all the containers and mission checkpoints are unlocked so you get softlocked at some point during the story. There are really volumes to write about how bad this game is, but the reason I only rate this 1 star is that this game has the hardest boss of all games: the anchor boss hard crashes the game to desktop, every time. There are countless discussions with several "fixes", none of which worked for me. The developers don't seem to care their game is completely broken despite countless people complaining, and as I couldn't progress past this point I just had to give up.
I'm sure this game was a success when it first appeared, but this must have been based exclusively on the pretty graphics, which are passable even after all this time. Unfortunately, everything else is subpar. The puzzles are very unintuitive and nonsensical, which leads to an obtuse, unengaging story. You will most likely need to use a walkthrough, especially in the second part of the game. Even so, the constant backtracking, combined with unskippable and very long animations, dialogues and audio ques from the main character during almost every action, makes the entire playthrough very tedious and boring. I'm an avid adventure games player, I love all the classics from Sierra, Microids and the likes. I wanted to try this game for so long, and I had such high expectations, that the dissapointment was tenfold. I don't know if I can force myself to finish this game.
Even after 20 years, it's still the perfect blood boiling, adrenaline fueled shooter.
Game doesn't work, it freezes as soon as I press the key for inventory, map or any other screens. Tried all combinations of compatibility settings and game options. Dissapointing that GOG sells games in this state.
