This was (WAS) one of the most difficult games to replay in this day and age. It was on my wishlist and here it is! Even back in the day, getting this game up and running was sometimes a challenge, but once you did, it was endless gameplay. Glad to have it again.
I remember playing this with friends watching. In the beginning attacking the guy with his own arm, your character says, "I have no wish to harm you!" We'd say, "as I beat you with your own severed arm. An arm which at this time has no name." We were all Highlander fans. There were no cheats to this game. If you were in a jam due to the fixed camera angle vs the clunky controls, you had to try it the scene again. I finished the game a few times, trying killing everyone, killing no one, playing the flute-like instrument...the choices you made in game affected your end story - far moreso than that of Mass Effect! There were a purported dozens of different end-stories to your character.
After playing this a gazillion times, I had found sound bytes from the game applied to Windows functions. "New mail has arrived" "Your PC is unhappy" "Welcome to my domain!"
I loved playing this game. Played it several different times as each avatar. I only stopped because the CD-ROM had laser rot, making it unreadable.
No other game and game series had as much of an impact as this. I owned this before I owned my first PC. I played it on other peoples' computers while I had owned an Amiga 500. Now if they could just get Privateer 2 and WC 5 rendered....
