This is one of those games that makes you stop and look at the scenery and just say WOW(!), because this game for 1997 looks amazing. I loved running around like a buffon trying to find solutions to this games puzzles and it amazes me how many different outcomes each scenario of the game has. It's truly a joy exploring the world of Blade Runner in video game form. If you were looking for more reasons to play this even on top of those previously listed, Nightdive Studios has done an excellent job in bringing over Westwood Studios hidden gem over to modern PC's. It plays like a dream.
This was a blast through and through, Nightdive has done an excellent job in porting these classic titles over to the KEX engine and on top of all that the whole thing was free! So awesome to see developers of all kinds and now Nightdive Studios embracing this path for us gamers. What more can I really say about Doom and Doom II, two damn right classics in the gaming catalogue and some of the best games of all time, period! Go play this thing!
This game like few others houses an absolutely beatiful city, and also actually let's you go to town on it with your running shoes. It's fun to parkour around the city and it's mostly easy to find where to go thank's to clever design. It's however a cult-classic for a reason, it's short length and rough but distinctly stylized animated cut-scenes that remind me of old cartoons like Kim Possible. If you can dig that, cool, if not, try the sequel instead. Because this game feels kinda like a tech-demo of a game that was never fully realised.
This game is unfortunately not what it's made out to be. A fabulous and great animated cutscene at the beginning of the game shows a game which could have been great, but ultimately lost the ball on what it was trying to achieve. What starts as a promising action-adventure and FPS-hybrid shows to have plenty of under-developed mechanics, like stealth that doesn't work and boring gameplay. It's mission design is if charming, very repetitive. Many of the boss-encounters are near unbeatable and very rage-inducing. This game unfortunately also has a lot of homophobia in it, with enemies calling you bad words non-stop, it also has one particularly egregious scene early on which just shook me. A good-at-first but-bad-later-on-and-very-stretched story with atrocious 'Big Lebowski'-addicted dialogue ruins one of the only interesting aspects of this game.
I wanted to check this game out because it was made by Neversoft, the developers of the renowned Tony Hawks series, however, after playing it i would say if you're not an absolute super-duper mega thps-fan you should go play something else. Unfortunately bad difficulty balancing and a racist portrayal of indigenous cultures make this a bad time on top of the forgettable main story.
