It's 500 years in the future. Man and machine are virtually on and the greatest megacity in the world is locked in a brutal war. You are the ultimate saboteur and part of an elite fighting force. Your mission: steal the largest, most sophisticated bio-mechanical attack weapon ever designed ...and kick some serious ass!
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Really ambitious game, I love how much detail was put in the environments. The final boss was the wettest fart that ever farted though. Maybe they had to rush that part out the door without testing it. Cool aesthetic, fitting music and fast action make it quite memorable.
played as a kid and loved it, replayed it and wow the controls suck but ignoring that the game is still really good honestly
Getting the game to run decently is the real challenge. You can't just go for the DC version that one's worse.
Once you get past that, it's a straightforward but fun game. There's nice weapon variety but the game's insistence on labeling things as "upgrade" and "downgrade" muddies it somewhat. The developers' original intended aesthetic was watered down from a more explicit biomechanical theme, but now in 2024 a somewhat generic 90s sci-fi is in itself an aesthetic. Same goes for the game's big huge pickups that were normal then but a nice appeal now. Compared to other old PC shooters the levels are divided into shorter segments so there's less of a desire to constantly save the game so that's a point for it. Got stuck in level geometry a fair bit but it generally ended with me eventually jumping and flailing my way out. It does have a bit of a feeling of being a big monster that lots of games don't capture, like being able to just pick people up and throw them even if it's impractical. There's a stomp button too
I didn't understand half the dialogue cause it was drowned out by the gameplay. But that too was something that got knocked down by executives into something more generic. Charles Martinet voiced someone but honestly I couldn't tell who was talking half the time.
Once you get past that, it's a straightforward but fun game. There's nice weapon variety but the game's insistence on labeling things as "upgrade" and "downgrade" muddies it somewhat. The developers' original intended aesthetic was watered down from a more explicit biomechanical theme, but now in 2024 a somewhat generic 90s sci-fi is in itself an aesthetic. Same goes for the game's big huge pickups that were normal then but a nice appeal now. Compared to other old PC shooters the levels are divided into shorter segments so there's less of a desire to constantly save the game so that's a point for it. Got stuck in level geometry a fair bit but it generally ended with me eventually jumping and flailing my way out. It does have a bit of a feeling of being a big monster that lots of games don't capture, like being able to just pick people up and throw them even if it's impractical. There's a stomp button too
I didn't understand half the dialogue cause it was drowned out by the gameplay. But that too was something that got knocked down by executives into something more generic. Charles Martinet voiced someone but honestly I couldn't tell who was talking half the time.
i had to buy this game twice, both on steam and GOG it simply does not work.
not only did i need to get this game twice but the time spent on making this run was much more than the time i've spent playing it, i had to download several patches, all of which did not work (i am no stranger to pcgamingwiki and gaming forums to tweak old games), my last bet was forcing it to work with a voodoo card emulator, which still didn't work, its insulting they sell this game on official stores without even giving it the proper care to make it playable.
i did managed to make it run however, after retrying all my steps above (go figure) eventually the steam version worked, but not the GOG version, but what i got was not a old gem forgotten by time, it was just an average shooter in a time where people had a ton of mech games to choose from, it was not a dying genre as people make it up to be.
the game itself was constantly crashing to add to the mediocricy of it, had to watch the last chapter on youtube
not worth the hassle, screw this broken old game and screw all those youtubers who keep calling this a ''underrated masterpiece'' or ''forgotten gem''
not only did i need to get this game twice but the time spent on making this run was much more than the time i've spent playing it, i had to download several patches, all of which did not work (i am no stranger to pcgamingwiki and gaming forums to tweak old games), my last bet was forcing it to work with a voodoo card emulator, which still didn't work, its insulting they sell this game on official stores without even giving it the proper care to make it playable.
i did managed to make it run however, after retrying all my steps above (go figure) eventually the steam version worked, but not the GOG version, but what i got was not a old gem forgotten by time, it was just an average shooter in a time where people had a ton of mech games to choose from, it was not a dying genre as people make it up to be.
the game itself was constantly crashing to add to the mediocricy of it, had to watch the last chapter on youtube
not worth the hassle, screw this broken old game and screw all those youtubers who keep calling this a ''underrated masterpiece'' or ''forgotten gem''
I wanted to finish the game so badly, I REALLY DID!! It would've made an easy top 25 of my favorite games! But the part at the 2nd to last level kept crashing so much, I'm forced to YT to rest!! Y'know in my life starting gaming, I wished something like what happened with Horace didn't happen here...but unfortunately it did...and that makes fucking sad...well at least I'm all prepped for Slave Zero X at the very least. I just hope that Slave Zero X will make up for the disappoint of me being forced to stop playing this really cool game.
You're symbiotically bound to a 60 foot tall bio-robot, and you're the only hope a resistance group has against a very sexy "Sovereign Khan" and his "Dark Matter" projects... yeah.
Robot designs are great, awesome acid techno soundtrack.
Super fast third person shooter gameplay, lots of strafe and jump goodness, unforgivingly hard at times.
Do you like bottomless pits?
Does not like running well on modern systems, even with patches, and the ledge grab will regularly pull you through geometry, forcing you to reload.
Robot designs are great, awesome acid techno soundtrack.
Super fast third person shooter gameplay, lots of strafe and jump goodness, unforgivingly hard at times.
Do you like bottomless pits?
Does not like running well on modern systems, even with patches, and the ledge grab will regularly pull you through geometry, forcing you to reload.