I had this on dreamcast and PC. Before DC took a poop, I had the pleasure of playing through the story of this game. I loved near about every aspect of it except for the extremely terrible controls at some parts (Combat and 1st person shooter styles). The combat i remember being very choppy and bland, but it still had you cheering for a win. The FPS style was just ridiculous to control and I played inverted so I remember you could not invert just the vertical, it would invert both so I just did it without inversion. The PC version was much more tolerable, as I could set my own controls. The story was so strange. It was the first game I experienced where they break down the fourth wall and address you. I didn't know how I felt about it, but I felt like since they admitted they were a different world, they were excusing for the lackluster graphics (haha, but they weren't that bad for 99). This game got weirder and weirder as you got deeper and only more interesting. You really started to feel the dark and lone presence around you, knowing that anyone could be against you. You questioned your motives and as you figured out your goals, things became more sincere. One of the greatest features was that there are a few different pathways where you will see different cutscenes and have access to different characters. Every time you died, you would take over a "new body". I would give 5th star, but those god awful controls.
I played this game when I think i was 12/13 and probably the first game to have such strongly adult-oriented violence/cursing. It definitely marked my game memories. I remember playing this and fighting hand to hand at first and beating up bums to get a measly dollar here and there to afford a pistol or a lead pipe so i could bash in the local wannabe thugs. There were functions for speaking out loud to intimidate and harass. Though being on the Quake2 engine, it still had a different feel. the environment, controls, violence... everything is just so dark and the cypress hill soundtrack really made me feel gangster lol This game is something worth checking out and playing for sure. I wish this was remade (i know you are thinking GTA or something, but I mean a real gritty and dark game of thug violence haha )
I STILL play this game as I have it on both original CD and CD Image. I am not going to write a crazy review because there are plenty, but as for the crashing on the windows, it is very likely to have errors and stuff, but i found that right clicking the executable and running it "as if" it were in windows 98 mode that it runs almost flawlessly. Needless to say it still has its errors and I would even purchase the digi copy of the game from here if I didn't see that it crashed just as much! If it gets fixed, i will def buy again.
I still have my copy of 2 and i remember how stoked i was when MOO3 came out. Let me just say i prefer 2 over 3. 3 was overly complex and really killed the fun factor that 2 had. I loved how random things were and it was almost impossible to win in a star system that was not small, haha. great game :)
