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8h 0m

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1 day

Last played

January 12, 2024

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This game is a great campy fun time with occasionally frustrating moments. The FMVs with actors and costumes and 90s CGI are very fun to watch, with some characters giving decent performances, and others just hamming it up. This was an improvement over the first game, which had a huge text dump for exposition on each level. As far as gameplay goes, it does take some time to adjust the controls to be something a bit more modern from the archaic 90s control scheme. X is jump for default, which should tell you something for resetting these to something more comfortable. One thing that is always interesting about these older games is how the level design and secrets can be both simultaneously great, and also the most frustrating thing in the world. Gaming visual language hadn't really been fully developed at the time, so there were several times where I was left confused on how to proceed, as there was a ledge or hole that I was meant to go through that didn't seem obvious as the correct solution. With the introduction of Force powers, there are some stages I'm not even sure what the correct solution was, because I was able to use force powers to jump into/over something after I couldn't figure out the "right" way to do it. But with the understanding of these things, I can't hold it against the game, and would recommend to those who enjoy retro FPS games.