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I remember when this game came out; PC Format the magazine had
this statement at the top of its review.
I have censored it here, but you will get the gist of it. It had a big banner at the top of two
pages and it read like this.
“THIS GAME IS F**KING
BRILLIANT.”
Now remember that very few magazines if any use language like this,
this game must have been brilliant.
So I decided to give it a try but at the time I had one of the
Voodoo Banshee PCI graphics cards and they were major league shite. I eventually got the game working with
some minigl program.
So I’ve got the game running finally and load it up to an
amazing FMV intro. I know that now
days FMV is in everything but back in the day, this was cutting
technology. People were talking about
how great this game was for months and months after its release, the same way
that now days are waxing lyrical about Elder Scrolls 4.
Perhaps the best thing about this game is that it’s the first
game that allowed you to look around the environment with the mouse. Before this game came out; you would just
use the keyboard. Well, all you had
to do was move and shoot. Sometime if
it was really, really necessary you might run but that was very rare.
Ok, I had better tell you the story. Don’t worry, there’s very little to tell. Earth is being attacked by aliens and you
find out about the home planet and the government sends in an elite squad to
take to brains of the operation. As
usual , the entire squad is wiped out with the exception of yourself. You crash land and that’s where you have
to find the brain and destroy it. There
you go, happy now? Here on in it’s
nothing more than go here, go there or the story won’t continue.
If you ignore its blatant flaws, I think you will like it.
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