Let me start by saying I'm a fan of the genre. I grew up on games like Wolf3d, the original ROTT, Descent, Doom, etc. I consider those games timeless and fun to this day. This game is not fun. There's a lot of problems, but most notably: 1. The AI is stupid. Mindnumbingly stupid. Like "Babby's first pathfinding routine" stupid. Enemies either stay in one place and shoot, or they charge you single-file and shoot. No attempts to dodge, no concept of using cover or trying to flank the player. They also tend to ignore you if you aren't in the magic distance (while you can still see and shoot at them). 2. The music feels really out-of-place. For example, the E1M2 track sounds like it belongs in Pokemon. 3. The playable characters are nearly as one-dimensional as the enemies, complete with the Black character who exhibits every Black stereotype you can think of. 4. The VO is bad. Not intentionally-campy-The-Asylum-Presents bad, but we-spent-our-budget-on-hookers-and-blow-so-we-made-the-programmers-do-the-VO bad (or, if we're being generous, we-accidently-shipped-our-game-with-placeholder-sfx bad). The ROTT reboot tries to be over-the-top action, but it only succeeds in being halfway-to-meh. Needed more time in the oven.
