This is a review by someone who played this game for the first time in 2020. Crusader: No Remorse establishes its setting extremely well, both with its in-game art and movie sequences (which feature really memorable actors, in my opinion), as well as the supplemental reading that comes with the game (the resistance manual, newspaper, etc). In one word, the setting and the story is COOL, even if it isn't groundbreaking in any way. You play as a COOL character, you fight against COOL enemies, and you work with COOL characters. It's just... Cool. The gameplay does not fare so badly either. The best method of control for me was the numpad, and it was smooth sailing once I got used to the controls. At first, the game will be very exciting to play, but there just isn't enough meat on the bones to keep it exciting for long. Every mission works the same way: Shoot everything, find keycards, progress. If it wasn't for the story sequences you would have no motivation to keep going. As such, I wasn't able to stomach more than one, maybe two missions at a time - I just needed a break from the monotonous gameplay. Still, each mission feels like it has a purpose, so you keep playing to see what happens next. I beat the game on the Weekend Warrior difficulty which was mostly easy until the very end. It took me almost 13 hours to beat the game, so you're looking at a lot of bang for your buck if you decide to play the game. I recommend it to anyone who loves a good computer game that focuses primarily on sucking you into its world, even if that means that the gameplay, while completely adequate, becomes monotonous pretty quickly.
