So I actually got this game when it first came out..I am one of those gamers who LOVES HORROR and scares..but is also a chicken...a big fat crying chicken...... I've played (at least to my knowledge) pretty much every horror game that has come out in the past 20 years....nothing has every scared me so much to make me twinkle myself untill this..YES TWINKLE (you figure it out)...I could only play this game in 20 -30 min sessions...I could only play this if my girlfriend (what a man I looked like) was in the room with me.... The game play is a great mix of first person adventure/with a feel of the old 3rd person alone in the dark games (but played in FIRST PERSON)....it's also very clever and you have to ALWAYS be thinking. I don't know how to rate the A.I. or the overall mechanics of the game, but when I had to hide or when I thought I was hidden, I was...it seems to all work which makes for a better game. ALL THIS BEING SAID..I don't know if I had fun....I was just too scared...but was I entertained HECK YES! Cheers!
The game is extremely FUN...something that has been lost over the years in gaming...we've been so focused on "realistic" and have forgotten that games are supposed to do what cartoons did for us as children...entertain, bring us to a different world for a while and get lost in it's enjoyment...
I know that headline is ridiculously, overly, absurdly, stupidly, obnoxiously melodramatic (like this run on sentence), but it is true. Maybe this "REVIEW" is more about the nostalgia of being 14 locked away in my dimly lit star base (ppl would call it a messy bedroom), spending an entire weekend and into the early hours of the morning, saving the galaxy, hooking up with a girl, making friends and following my own little video game version of "Star Wars". Dad was down stairs drinking as usual, mom didn't care, I was a nerd, a geek and all I cared about was that my 486/DX 2 66mhz processor that I saved up for could handle this masterpiece of a game. I'd run upstairs after school looking at that big beautiful box, I'd tear it open and start the install process that took a VERY looooong time! I was impatient, I paced and I skipped dinner, and when those opening credits began those super blurry pixelated fmv gfx looked like 1080p HD graphics of the future. Dad would stumble up the stairs drunk yelling at the world, mom would be crying, I had no one to call..to save me except THAT HEART OF THE TIGER..>>>>ME!!! I'd hush the speakers so no one knew I was up and I wouldn't get yelled at by the drunk old man....he's asleep YES! Back to the fight! It was my escapism, it was a truly epic story that I really felt a part of, I MADE CHOICES!!! My choices had an effect on the outcome of certain situations, it's an RPG, ADVENTURE , flight sim all wrapped up in one(u can even see how mass effect took ideas from wing commanders 3/4). I'm going to download this tonight and put it back in after 17 year (wow), and I know it won't be the same, nothing old ever is and nostalgia does cloud the mind. But I think this weekend an old friend is gonna say to me "kid get in that cockpit and lets have an adventure!" and for a brief moment my ADULT problems will disappear just as those teenage ones did so many years ago. Thank you wing commander!
