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''