the 5 star is for the game itself not this version. i played Rayman 1 on the PSX. its an absolute classic, one my top 10 favorite games of all time. beautiful hard drawn animation, music and charm. it's essentially a European influenced fairy-tale into a video game platformer. this game has soo much charm, very colorful and it's one of best looking games I have ever played. yes this game is infamous for it's difficulty but c'mon it's not that hard just some practice and even the harder levels are a breeze for me. Rayman Forever is the DOS version, and sadly it's incomplete. it's missing music files and the defult DOXBOX setting is terrible for this game with poor frame rate and screen tearing, but there's a fix to get the best experience from this version, you need fan made patch called "Rayman Forever DX+ patch", it not only restores the missing files from the base game but also add the missing expansion pack called "Rayman 60 Levels". To fix the poor frame rate and screen tearing problem go to the doxbox cfg, change "core=dynamic" and "cycles=29000", then save, now the game plays 99% better. the downside is the opening cutscenes has choppy frame rate under 20fps with a sync issue, it actually runs okay-ish on older computers, newer ones not so much. also let me address the virus warning with Rayman Forever, it has remnants of an old virus named CIH, it's bad for much older 9x operating systems like windows 95/98/ME users, but for NTFS operating system users likes windows 2000/xp/vista/7/8/10/11 it will not be affected by it, it's a false positive. if you're getting a virus warning just ignore it. it will do nothing to you're computer. i wish gog would address this issue and i don't know they didn't fix the EXE file already! if you're looking for Classic Rayman Experience without any issues on modern PC, just get the fan-made remake "Rayman Redemption", it's free, all the original stuff is intact but in higher resolution and it has add new levels, enemies, sound-effects and items. Redemption it works perfectly on modern PC's and it's has proper controller support! this is the definitive way to play this classic game.
oh the nostalgia, i love MDK2! one of my first games i played on the Win XP, a great sequel to an already awesome game from 90's an action-shooter with some sense of humor. story takes place right where previous one left-off, after alien race leader was defeated and stopping their invasion to earth, more of them have return but in much bigger numbers and the heroes (Max, Dr. Hawkins and Kurt) have to save the earth again. every chapter you play a different character and each character gameplay is slightly different and unique: 'Max', 'Dr. Hawkins' and 'Kurt'. Kurt is my favorite out of the 3, with his sniping rifle, his alien-like suit, parachute and some minor puzzles overall the most balanced out of the 3, Max the four-armed robotic dog is walking machine gun, pretty much run 'n gun type gameplay. the third character Dr. Hawkins is the weakest character and also most focus on puzzle solving. MDK in general is type of games we don't see anymore, the level of originality, sense of humor and zaniness these games had. the game's soundtrack by Jesper Kyd, Albert Olson and Raymond Watts is one of the best game soundtracks i have ever heard in a game. i'm playing it on Win 10, but you have to play with the setting cause i noticed some technical problems, such as on the highest resolution (1920x1080) the game will run fine for the most part but some glitches in the game textures will pop-up, also in widescreen you can see the edges of the screen and it looks messed-up (like in the beginning of the game), it's better to put it in lower resolution with 4:3 aspect ratio with some filter. also adjust you're mouse sensitivity cause it's little wonky at first. for some reason the text scrolling before every mission (usually moving fast) is moving very slowly which is really annoying. i hope someday this will get patched. aside from that issue the game plays great on my Win 10 just make sure to check the game settings before you play.
oh yes this classic "Indiana jones and infernal machine" was a nightmare to run on post Windows 98/2000 (if you're running it on CD-ROM), from black screens to crashes. i tired few times to run it on my old win xp with no luck and I thought for many years it will be impossible to play this game on even more modern pc's. due to this I eventually played the "Nintendo 64" version later on, a pretty solid port that fixes almost all the problems with the PC version (except the muddy graphics, some of the audio and frame rate drops). but after so many years the impossible happened, it's playable on windows 10 to my shocking surprise, i don't know how GOG did it, but it works! this underrated Indiana jones title is the first 3D action game starring Indy and later got 2 sequels: "Emperor's Tomb" (pretty good game) and "Staff of Kings" (a buggy broken mess of a game). 'Infernal Machine' is clearly a 'Tomb Raider' clone, but not a terrible one. yes the game has the same problems tomb raider has, awkward tank controls, very annoying camera and sometimes you don't know where you suppose to go and the voice actor for Indiana jones does a pretty poor harrison ford impersonation, even the menu is very weird to navigate. but on the positives: the level design is pretty unique, graphics are surprisingly not bad for 1999, yes they're blocky and the textures are a bit muddy by today standards, but there's clearly effort went into this game. the plot is pretty good for indiana jones and it's great to explore, find treasures, solve some clever puzzles and deal with the soviets. a very fun game and highly recommended it for hardcore Indiana jones fans and old-school gamers, if the PC version still gives you a hard time try the nintendo 64 version.
I grow up with the "Dark Forces/Jedi Knight" series on old pc back in the day. likable protagonist, well-written story, cool arsenal of iconic star wars weapons and of course to play as a JEDI when you get you're lightsaber and force powers and then the game is a breeze. the only flaws i found in the game is the finicky enemy AI and some level design can be a little bit confusing to navigate. I have played this game many time when I was a teenager on my Win XP, great game! no wonder it's regarded by many as one of top 5 best star wars games ever made. many have addressed that this game alongside "Jedi Academy" its not compatible on Windows 10, the game won't boot up at all and send me back to the desktop, i tried playing with the settings and still nothing, but there's a way to run it on windows 10 (the same with "Jedi Academy") properly. 1. you need to download "gldirect5_opensource" zip-file, https://sourceforge.net/projects/gldirect/files/latest/download 2. extract the files, then open gldirect5 file 3. open "bin" file, then open "release" file 4. copy "opengl32.dll" to main directory of Jedi Knight II in "GameData" file and that's it. it works on WIN 10!!! you can launch the game directly from GOG galaxy or Jk2sp.exe and it plays great!. please people always check for alternative options instead of giving up and complaining. i already have few games that didn't work properly on GOG and have to find patch's or different ways top run it. it sucks, but that's the reality of playing old pc games on modern pc.
i remember the demo of this game, played it many many times on my Win 95, before i upgrade my computer, the game does work fine on Win 7,8,10 32x System. but after i decided to to upgrade it to Win 10 64x the game constantly crashes when i start the game after the main menu. a played bit with the main settings after few times, and when i start playing you see graphical glitches from hell around black background. i knew the game is struggling to run. there are couple of good solutions online but after trying few of them out, only found one of them worked perfectly for me: there's a guide from some JK fan-site called "http://www.thekinsie.com/words/jediknight/" it requires you to download 'dgVoodoo2' to run it. this program is a life saver, not only makes the game work perfectly on modern pc's, but you can also adjust the resolution to 1920x1080 and it runs great. "Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II" is miles better then it's OK predecessor "Dark Forces", highly recommended! my second favorite game in the "Jedi Knight/Dark Forces" series.
"Army Men: Toys in Space" is not a bad game, it's a disappointing follow-up to the excellent "Army Men II" but it's far from bad, it often mistaken for "Army Men III" (which is not), more like a mission pack for Army Man II, cause it's using the same engine, mechanics and gameplay, essentially reusing assets from the previous game with some improvments. despite it's flaws i love this game and still one of the better army men games. the game story is the usual war bitween the green army against the tan army, but when a UFO crashes in thier territory, the tan army general plasto wants to seeks the unknown aliens for thier technology to create advance weapons, the green army with the help of the alien ally named tina to stop them from succeeding. the gameplay is the same from Army Men II, however the squad machanics is much easier to control then it's predeccesor, i can finally stop fighting the controls and the finicky AI, more cool weapons and finally the first and only game in the series to go to outer space, the soundtrack is massive improvment of the previous games, combination of epic war themed music with 1950's sci-fi b-movie alien music and it works. it's also alot more difficult, the enemy can shoot you even in long range and you can lose you're progress in seconds, quick saves is always the best option. despite the cool concept about the army men vs alien invasion, it's excecution comes out out pretty flat and predictable. even the outlandish elements from army men II don't really blend very well in this game. it is sadly the weakest game in the classic isometric tactical-shooter series. but if you can overcome the game's difficulty, paper-thin plot and the old-school basic mission structure, it's still enjoyable and classic army men game to it's core, and my opinion better made game then the later army men games. this game is not for everybody, only recommanded for old-school gamers and Army Men fans.