Got this free from Xbox Games with Gold. It's an OK puzzle game, but pretty repetitive. Once you figure out the basic format of the puzzles, they are mainly quite similar (Drawing patterns of lines on a screen in a certain way). For a free game, it was worth the gameplay for a few hours - I did not complete the game but got to a stage where it just became boring. But for the 40 odd bucks they are charging here, it's a definite no from me.
The original Divinity is better than the modern interpretations of the game. Divine Divinity is one of the deepest, most detailed RPGs of the 1990s.
Game does have some aged bits, but thankfully it's a example of something that has withstood the test of time and is actually better than the remake. -AI is vastly superior at pathfinding that the remake -Enemies do not make your soldiers cower after just 1 shot like in the remake -Units realistically run away. Just get this over the remake. The remake has ruined the AI.
Would avoid this title unless it is highly discounted.
For me, Outlaws is the best game Lucasarts ever made. I said it. Better than Monkey Island 2, better than Indiana Jones - it's just a great game. Let's start with the very beginning of the game. I believe the intro video (where your daughter is on the swing singing "my bonnie lies over the ocean") is possibly the best intro video ever made, and just by itself is a fantastic hand drawn animated story. I'll never forget it. Next, the music. The composer, Clint (what an appropriate name) has emulated the style of Ennio Morricone. As soon as I played Outlaws recently I could instantly recall the music from all those years ago. The soundtrack is absolutely brilliant - in fact when the game came out, they had the track listings on the CD so you could listen in your CD player. Finally the game itself. I always loved doing the "historical missions" mode, where you could freely run around the little village shooting bottles, and then choose a bad guy to go after. The game is a typical FPS of the mid-late 90s when it comes to the mechanics (mouselook is the default control method, so you can freely aim around the place). The atmosphere is what makes the game so good. The soundtrack perfectly fits in the levels, the cowboys calling your name, the types of weapons (the gatling gun is so fun to find). The game revolves around trying to navigate your way through western towns/mines/forts, finding keys to open doors, until you find the main boss. There has never been another western game quite like Outlaws. Get it!
