twillight
05-11-2011, 06:18 PM
This game back in its day might have survived for filling in a niche, but face it: it is a tpical Blizzard game: stolen ideas, full of bugs, and high amount of repetity.
Basically they stole Prince of Persia (the very first one), added some extra items, a gun instead of a sword, filled with bugs, slew down the gameplay (at least the time cap was removed), and enlarged the areas.
The protagonist will CRAWL through the entire game, sometimes even left behind by some wounded snails.
At least he will be perfectly safe during fights, not ust because you can hide, but mainly because you can roll in and out of screen, what resets the enemies postition, but bot their life-o-meter, allowing perfectly safe butchering.
Oh, the butchering: you may also without any consequences kill the members of your nation. Heck, many will even die from crossfire of you and the orcs. Blast it, you don't even have to waste talking with any of them anyway, as the required items given by them will be dropped when they die, and they tell useless o even nonsense things anyway.
About your nation: at a certain level you'll see two of them fighting each other. You'll have no idea which is on your side - only the bullets what hit you will tell you.
More on opponents: one bug is, that they can move, and then ust stand on the top of some ladder, preventing you from ever climbing that ladder.
Also "cool" bug is, when you try to use an item while you're being shot. Result: you loose the item.
Bugs caused by items: it is actually a design-problem. You have a limited inventory. Assuming you fill it with healing potions, but never loose life, you might get stuck because the potions prevent you from picking up a vital item (bomb, leviator). And no, you can't drink them if you are at full health.
Another design-failure is, that you never know the items (specifically: bombs) will be required to pass a door, or you are allowed to kill enemy with them (very important question when you face 3 spiders for example)?
The controll is also a step back from Prince of Persia. You can't run. I mean you won't run. Because if you start running, you'll have to totaly stop, and you can't just change back to walking.
Worst thing is, the long jump not work every time. As you only have levelsaves, this means you'll sometimes have to redo a whole level because at the end this bug occures.
Phantastic. Phenomenal. Terms you could determine this game in a sarcastic way. But no surprise: this is a game from Blizzard!
Basically they stole Prince of Persia (the very first one), added some extra items, a gun instead of a sword, filled with bugs, slew down the gameplay (at least the time cap was removed), and enlarged the areas.
The protagonist will CRAWL through the entire game, sometimes even left behind by some wounded snails.
At least he will be perfectly safe during fights, not ust because you can hide, but mainly because you can roll in and out of screen, what resets the enemies postition, but bot their life-o-meter, allowing perfectly safe butchering.
Oh, the butchering: you may also without any consequences kill the members of your nation. Heck, many will even die from crossfire of you and the orcs. Blast it, you don't even have to waste talking with any of them anyway, as the required items given by them will be dropped when they die, and they tell useless o even nonsense things anyway.
About your nation: at a certain level you'll see two of them fighting each other. You'll have no idea which is on your side - only the bullets what hit you will tell you.
More on opponents: one bug is, that they can move, and then ust stand on the top of some ladder, preventing you from ever climbing that ladder.
Also "cool" bug is, when you try to use an item while you're being shot. Result: you loose the item.
Bugs caused by items: it is actually a design-problem. You have a limited inventory. Assuming you fill it with healing potions, but never loose life, you might get stuck because the potions prevent you from picking up a vital item (bomb, leviator). And no, you can't drink them if you are at full health.
Another design-failure is, that you never know the items (specifically: bombs) will be required to pass a door, or you are allowed to kill enemy with them (very important question when you face 3 spiders for example)?
The controll is also a step back from Prince of Persia. You can't run. I mean you won't run. Because if you start running, you'll have to totaly stop, and you can't just change back to walking.
Worst thing is, the long jump not work every time. As you only have levelsaves, this means you'll sometimes have to redo a whole level because at the end this bug occures.
Phantastic. Phenomenal. Terms you could determine this game in a sarcastic way. But no surprise: this is a game from Blizzard!