And, now, for some of the not-so-good things about it. First of all, it's very linear and, yet again
there are too many scenes where you'll find baddies standing in front of explodable bins that just
require a quick shot to make progress. In fact, the computer AI is always a bit weak with this
type of game which makes it very easy, particularly with more than enough power-ups scattered about,
not least of all those coming from the enemies about to push up daises since most of them
drop a 10-point health canister when their brains have been forced to leave their cranium.
On a couple of technical issues, when it came to using the Magnum weapon, I changed zoom key to
an unused key since I wanted 'z' for crouching, so when it came to a point that I needed to use
the function, I couldn't! I added in a different key for this and it still wouldn't bend for me.
Similarly, I couldn't activate left/right turning on keyboard for no apparent reason, whatever
I change them to. I tried the left and right arrows, then anything else but it just refused point
blank to allow this, so I had to change them to strafing left/right which was a royal pain. why
give the option if I can't bloody use it?!
Oh, and despite the prettyness of the graphics, they do get a bit sticky at times and I found it
crashing too often early on so SAVE FREQUENTLY!
Later on, the game was occasionally crashing back to the desktop, even though I'm running on a Dual Core PC.
That said, I was playing in a room with other A/V equipment at the hottest point in the year so far
which makes me feel like I'm sat in the chamber of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor core, and I could hear
the PC going ten-to-the-dozen with the fan and PSU so I can understand that didn't help either.
And, finally, the biggest studpity ever to hit computer gaming - Steam. I was going to play
Half Life 2: Episode 1 before this, but upon installing that it wanted to upgrade it in a
process that would take far longer than I had time for the first night I played this. I've gone into
more detail about this in my
Half Life 2 PC review
so take a look at that for more info. The lack of Dolby Digital 5.1 is also apparent here, as I
select that option but am just not getting this through the SPDIF connection. This has behaved
like this on two different PCs so I know it's not me and, thus, I'll once again only get my fix
of multi-speaker action when the Xbox version comes out.
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