Oh it breaks my heart to park a 2/5 star review here for the single greatest game of my childhood. Alas, I can't get past the character creation phase because the game crashes during stat rolling. Running the original DOS game in DOSBox doesn't have this problem. While I appreciate the option to disable the scaling filter and hidef portraits, I'd like more scaler choices. Something with scanlines to emulate an old CRT at least. Running in DOSBox gives you plenty of scaling options... The in-game music seems out of place... I would have preferred subtle ambient sound effects.. like blowing wind, a barking dog, etc.. The voiceovers aren't bad really, but they suffer from technical issues. I experienced stuttering and pops during playback. You can switch to windowed mode (alt-f, control-f?) but it seems you first have to start the game in fullscreen and then switch out to windowed mode -- annoying. The integrated paragraphs are implemented poorly -- It screams "I'm a tacked-on afterthought!". The "About the game" menu option is simply broken and does nothing. As a kid I played the Apple II version of the game, which had a really cool intro animation of earth getting nuked. It was disappointing to see the static DOS intro screen... It's a shame they haven't included the original DOS version with this release. :(
