Remember playing this as a teenager because I was on a budget and here in Spain a company called FX Interactive published it at less than half the price of Warcraft 2. I found it really entertaining and I spent a good amount of time playing it. Sadly, the game has not aged as well as I would have expected, mainly because of the technical aspects of the game. Scroll is too sensible and music turns out to be a bit annoying. Also, I had to set my nVidia card to force rescaling the game to full size, otherwise it would display in a tiny window. However, I've discovered myself playing a couple of hours, and that's a good sign nowadays, hehe.
After reading the few comments about this re-release I decided to give it it a shot myself and purchased it on a 65% discount. I totally agree with the review written by Nicktheblack, but I’d like to make clear the main complaints I’ve been reading about this edition: 1. I can confirm the manual IS included. It’s a 300-page pdf file. 2. By default, the DOSBox configuration for this game is set to run at only 4000Hz, and that’s the reason the game runs “as a PowerPoint presentation”. Just edit the dosbox.conf file and and change the value of the “cycles” setting to 16000 at least (the minimum required). I’ve been playing OK with cycles at 25000. 3. The game is unprotected, just type anything when prompted. Summarizing: a good flight sim from the early 90s that didn’t get the love it deserved with this edition. The manual should have been included from day one, and the default DOSBox setting should be corrected as soon as possible.
I’ve been doubting about buying for quite a long time. I always liked the arpg genre, but reviews on this game have always been discouraging, most of them treating it as a boring dumbed-down Diablo 3 clone. I finally got the Slayer Edition, which includes all of the DLC, on the 2022 GOG Summer Sale, and I must admit that I totally don’t understand the reason of the mediocre scores. I don’t know how bad the game could have been at launch, but I totally recommend it as of now. It has fun original game modes, and quite a big range of enemies. It also has a lot of items to loot, appearences for your characters, and a ton of skills, most of them I still haven’t been able to use, because of the clever skill point system that forces you to think very well about the skill build you want to use. I’m really not interested in multiplayer, but I must be about 8 hours in the single player campaign, and I’ve just started the 3rd Chapter (out of six, I think), and I’m really enjoying it. Haven’t felt addicted to an ARPG like this since the release of Diablo 3.
I remember playing this when it was released. It seemed to me to be quite fun, so when I saw it was released on GOG I thought about buying it. Then I saw its price and... no way. I don't remember this to be such a good game to make it worth 15€, nor even at the discounted price of 10€ by today standards, sorry.
