This is such game nails the horror atmosphere so well that it's too scary for me to finish playing.
I have the original PC version on DVD, so can't comment on this version's issues. It is however, a great game. The downvotes for technical issues do not reflect the experience you'll have if it's working properly.
I bought this game on steam after reading all the great reviews. Clearly lots of people love this game. I found it dark, depressing and slow paced. I don't like grinding and yet that's what I found myself doing. I played 2.5 hours and stopped. The old tomb raiders were pure fun. As @machinators in his review "They stripped Lara of having power, confidence, charisma and good looks and decided to torture her until she becomes a serial killer who runs on instinct and not intellect."
So far it's very repetitive, both the environments, the weapons and the bad guys. The 6DOF gameplay is as good as it always was, but I enjoy forsaken remastered much more and even went to the trouble of making an HD texture pack for it. There's no humour in this game. It's just more of the same bots in another station that looks and feels pretty similar to the last one. So far, I'm at phoebe station. Will update this review if it gets better. May take a while because I'm finding this a slog. Too many bright lights on explosions make enemies hard to see. So far, no outdoor areas like in Descent 3.
I remember when I played Human Revolution, I thought the original Deus Ex was still the better game, despite the worse graphics. Mankind Divided is a big step up, I don't think I can go back to playing the original after playing this beautiful thing. I played it about a year ago, and honestly I don't remember feeling particularly let down by the ending because I'd had such a good time on the way. If they ever do an HD remake of the original, it might replace this one as my favourite of the series, until then, MKD is kind.
Dosbox version problems: No instructions on how to configure game controllers (press ctrl-F1 in game) Low frame rate Lower resolution Windows version problems: No music Need to set compatibility mode to windows 98
I hope they put something back into the community that brought this game back to life. Years of waiting for a new release and nothing happens until the scumm team fix it. Whoever is making the profit has a debt to pay.
Lo Wang makes prank calls, funny remarks when dismembering others with his sword, can jump really high and move really fast. He also happens to be Chinese and speaks English with an accent. Some reviewers think that this portrayal is racist and therefore the game is not merely bad, but morally repugnant. If you agree with them, don't play. No one's forcing you. Everyone else can download and enjoy some of the most fun I've had in a game for ages, and 2019 is the first time I've played this game so it's not just nostalgia. I played this free GOG version of the game with ProASM's source port instead of the bundled dosbox, and with his high res texture pack. This makes it look like the redux version. I don't think I could stand the extra pixelated dos version, and I didn't really want to buy the redux version. I'm not sure if the original has cut scenes. It certainly didn't when I played with the ProASM source port. There is a story linking the levels but one level jumps to another in a jarring way. For example, one level you're in a floating sky fortress, and the next you're in an airport where a plane has crashed into the building but there's no cutscene or explanation to transition between the two. The gameplay is great so I didn't mind that much but it would have been nice to have some sort of story to fill in the gaps.
It's Descent with updated graphics, and if that's what you want then all good. I'd like to see some different gameplay that uses 6dof.
