MDK
The Steam release of MDK is a bit of a letdown. It inspired me to make a fan patch for the game since, not only does it not include any glide wrappers to make the game compatible with modern systems, it also missed a LOT of original content from the game such as cutscenes, artwork etc.
Using my patch though you should be able to experience the game as it was meant to be.
In my opinion MDK is a pretty awesome shooter. It’s insanely easy to play (especially with a modern WASD+mouse control setup), easy to grasp and while the game is a bit short, it has an insane amount of variety in level designs and graphics, especially for its time when most shooters looked like brown and grey corridors (coughQuakecough) and the game also features more open arena-like spaces a lot.
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
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MDK is a must own! MUST OOOOWWWNNN !!! The first time I saw this game was on a PC in a Tandy Electronics store in early 1997. lol, boy I tell you, I played it as much as I could. Which was only 15 mins. But when I had to leave, I knew I had to get away from games like Doom, Quake, Heretic, Descent, Blakestone 3D, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D … etc. These 3D platform shooters were the next big thing!
The graphics amazed me back then. Now that I play it, I gotta admit it isn’t as great as I had remembered, but the gameplay is incredibly fun that you’ll pay no attention to the graphics. There’s this really cool slanting to the camera angle when you run left or right. I also find the parachute mechanism as integral and addictive to the gameplay as bullet time is in the Max Payne series.
– Real player with 6.7 hrs in game
Outcast 1.1
Outcast is certainly worth a playthrough, even today. After 15 years, there have been little to no other games following its game concept of an open-world third-person shooter where you don’t just shoot everyone (OWTPSWYDJSE in short), and the “stranger in a strange world” setting concept is almost extinct because consumers prefer things they know.
This game will throw you into a strange world and force you to adapt to being called the Ulukai, to everything and its mother being or having a “Fandazma”, and to saving with a “Gaamsaav”.
– Real player with 175.0 hrs in game
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I remember way back when, when I was a small, foolish child who could barely understand english. Even though all I had was the demo version of Outcast, I knew it was a fantastic game, and I’d play it day after day. And now, here I am, happy to say it still occupies my slot of #1 favorite game of all time.
The world is the most alive I’ve ever experienced, even moreso than any modern games that boast having a living world to this day. The characters and story are interesting, there’s so much to discover about the world of Adelpha, and everything has an interesting or funny in-universe reason for being the way it is - right down to why the keys only work once before they break.
– Real player with 147.8 hrs in game
Rune Classic
First thing I want to say is I have played this game A LOT before I got it on Steam so keep that in mind.
Now, there were a handful of games that me and my brothers played together a lot in my childhood, and every single one of these games brought many hilarious and awesome memories that I still remember.
Rune was one of these games.
My and my brothers played over LAN quite a bit, so I recommend playing this game with friends over private servers or LAN.
Its a blast to play this game with others, especially if you know the people your playing it with well. The fact that this game is so old makes it even more fun for me to play even now. It’s hilarious when you chop your enemy’s weapon arm off, because now thay have no arm, so all they can do is run! In a multiplayer match you can start to feel super awesome as you find things on the map with high damage and other items that increase your health, and so on and so forth.
– Real player with 107.2 hrs in game
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This review contains events of the very beginning of the game and names a few enemy types. Other than that it is spoiler-free.
Rune Classic is a re-release of the original hack&slash game called Rune. You play as the young Viking Ragnar who just gets into the status of a warrior as the story begins. Ragnar’s village is one of the villages that are built around special rune stones. Those stones were created by the god Odin to keep his son Loki in his prison and thus preventing the great cataclysm that would follow if Loki was to be released. The warriors of Ragnar’s village belong to an order called the Odinsblade. It is their duty to protect the rune stones from all harm. When Ragnar is just accepted into the Odinsblade the people of Ragnar’s village learn that an allied village guarding on of the rune stones is being attacked and immediately set out to intervene. On their way they run into the viking Conrack who was responsible for the attack. Conrack is in league with Loki and is hellbent on destroying every single rune stone to release him into the world. Due to the powers that were granted to Conrack by Loki the people of Ragnar’s village are no match for him and he sinks their ship. Ragnar gets rescued by Odin and makes it to an undersea cave. With nobody else having survived the battle it’s on Ragnar to keep Conrack from destroying the stones. But to do that he has to make his way back to the surface.
– Real player with 35.1 hrs in game
Sacrifice
This is my favourite game of all time, and it’s not just a nostalgic feeling, I still play with this masterpiece. It has a magical athmosphere you cannot find elsewhere, the story, the characters are so well written that I know nearly all quests by heart, yet I still replay them ‘just one more time’ when I get the mood for it.
The story is about a banished wizard, who enters a new realm of magical floating islands that are controlled by five gods, who constantly fight each other for justice, dominance or just fun. All gods control a sphere of natural energies which are earth, fire, air, life and death. You can choose one patron god on every level to do quests for them, and in return you get new spells to cast and creatures to summon from the chosen god’s sphere. Keep in mind though, that if you serve the dark powers, you will soon lose the favor of the benelovent gods and vice versa, so choosing sides has limits according to your previous choices. All the gods have an interesting character that can always surprise you, as the good guys can become quite warlike, the bad guys may become just scared, the smart guys can act foolish and the simple guys quite resourceful, so everything and everyone turns out to be quite different than as they seemed at first.
– Real player with 54.6 hrs in game
A old cult classic. Very interesting combination of a 3rd person RTS with RPG elements for its time.
You control a your own playable character - a wizard - directly in movements with the WASD keys and you can summon creatures that you can order around by clicking on terrain or enemies much like a RTS.
Of course that isn’t the only commands you can give. They can also move in different formations or guard different objectives ranging from yourself to other creatures to buildings.
There are basically 2 resources in the game. Mana and souls.
– Real player with 48.4 hrs in game
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Chaos Theory®
–-{ Graphics }—
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
—{ Gameplay }—
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It’s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don’t
—{ Audio }—
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I’m now deaf
—{ Audience }—
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
—{ PC Requirements }—
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
—{ Difficulty }—
– Real player with 50.8 hrs in game
The enemy AI is so god damn smart, they can smell Sam Fisher’s stinky farts and instantly find you
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
Urban Chaos
Speaking as someone who had never played this game before, I really can’t find anything to recommend about it. Maybe it played better on consoles back when it first came out, but unless you have some deep nostalgia for it, I suggest you give it a pass. Any enjoyment I might have derived from this game was lost in the numerous design and control issues.
I’ve never been a fan of tank controls, but in conjunction with an unruly camera with no mouse support and combat that demands immediate reaction it becomes extremely frustrating. The melee system allows you to perform combos, but you never will, because it’s faster to just grapple the enemy and cuff him while he’s on the ground. Guns have to be locked onto an enemy to hit, and trying to get locked onto the right enemy in the heat of battle while having to keep constantly on the move to evade enemies' bullets is no easy task. There are just too many annoyances in the combat to delve into all of them; getting caught in ‘melee mode’ so it becomes impossible to flee, enemies constantly sliding to knock you down the instant they get close, the list goes on.
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Bet you know the deal already, right? Catchy product name, the female protagonist, tough police woman with the duty to clear the city from punks, mobsters and even demons eventually? A semi-open world game in the 3d, from the time when the games were looking much better in the 2d? A game where you running through the streets and climbing over the rooftops, driving cars, kicking punks in the balls, arresting them afterwards?
Oh, c’mon, either you’ve come there by some nostalgia link, like a video talking about noticeable 3d open world projects before GTA 3… Or you just liked the name of the game, right?
– Real player with 8.6 hrs in game
Indiana Jones® and the Emperor’s Tomb™
As a child, one of my favourite passtimes was playing this game’s levels over and over, just pummeling nazis for hours on end. The combat system is that good. When I discovered that this gem was on steam last year, I picked it up without a second thought.
As it turns out, 21 year old me still loves to play levels over and over to kill nazis with my bare hands. When I am bored and have nothing else to do, I know I can’t go wrong with some IJET.
This game’s amazingly fun. That’s the word I’d use to describe it, everything about it is just so much fun. The camera’s a little clunky, and it uses a Dark Souls-esque control scheme by default (which I don’t have a problem with, myself, but plenty of people do), but the platforming’s fun and intuitive and the puzzles are interesting enough.
– Real player with 118.9 hrs in game
This is one of the best adventure games I have ever played, and I am not just saying that for the Indiana Jones Franchise, but for any PC game in general. I would say this game is of the same genre as the Prince of Persia series, except that Prince of Persia is based on ancient times and does not involve guns, firefights or aircraft.
There is a lot of action in this game involving fistfights, firefights, etc. There is more fistfight than shooting and that just makes the game all the more interesting, in my opinion. Plus you need to get very good at making Indy jump, use his whip, and do both at the same time. There are several puzzles to solve and you need to take Indy to some locations on your own. There is no real map guiding you. You need to use your head for this, or you will not get anywhere. It is precisely in this respect that this game’s experience is a lot like that of the Prince of Persia series. That is exactly what I love about it.
– Real player with 52.1 hrs in game
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
Probably one of the best Star Wars games out there, in between Republic Commando and Battlefront II of course. This was from a long forgotten era of games where the developers cared about what they were doing, and greed wasn’t as prominent as it is today.
Made by Raven Softworks, Jedi Academy is the 4th installment of the Jedi series of games, and the last in the series. At the time this game was considered more or less an expansion to Jedi Outcasts rather than its own game. Because of this the initial sales for the game on release weren’t amazing, and critics were pretty harsh on it, but like a lot of old movies and games it has managed to build up a cult following surrounding it years later.
– Real player with 53.4 hrs in game
you know, i have to say. i own this game and Jedi Outcast on cd, and have put 1000’s of hours into both of them. they are amongst my favorite starwars games, ever made. get them, and play them, and don’t forget to use dismemberment cheats in outcast, and a dismemberment mod for academy, (also rebind force pull to mouse wheel down, and force push to mouse wheel up.) What enabling dismemberment in these games does, is remove the hitbox during saber swings, and instead, have the samer constantly do near insta kill damage to anything it hits. therfore, you keep the animations from swings, but they become more diverse, allowing you to use the animations in unique ways to hit enemies all around you. it also affects enemy jedi the same way, making saber duels much like the movies, first one to get hit, loses something. add in a plethera of fun cheats, and the game never gets old. Never before have you felt like such a legitimate jedi. with all the powers available to you, there is so much that you can do, you’ll never want to stop playing. Imagine being able to ligning a room full of baddies into a corner, or backflip shop a guys head clean off, or force push a rocket back into someones face. well you can. but you can do more than that. Try force choking a tough enemy, jumping 3 stories into the air, and force pushing them upwards so high, that the fall kills them shortly after you land. Try slowing down time with force speed, and running around with a rocket launcher, firing one shot at everyone in a room, then speeding up time again to watch them all die at once. Try dueling an enemy jedi with dismemberment on. try turning off enemy targeting in the console, along with noclipping, and setting up unique encounters with enemies in levels you’ve allready played. you can even set up boss fights as you play through the game over, and over again. try spawining in a bunch of enemy sith in the next area, then going back where you were, and spawing in a ton of friendly jedi. then you adventure into the craziest battles you’ve ever seen, and i cant stress this enough, with dismemberment, these fights are thrilling and nuts. try accidently cutting off your allies head, or watching a sith do the same. try force choke, into backflip insta kill. try everything.
– Real player with 46.0 hrs in game
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast™
Several years ago, when I was a kid, I bought a CD copy of this game as part of the Star Wars: The Best of PC collection. I had fun with it, but I was young and bad at the game, so really all I did was just fool around with the in-game cheats. I saw the game on Steam for cheap and decided to give it a more thorough playthrough this time around. After completing it, I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that this game is fantastic and holds up very well. I’ll break the review up into a few sections to simplify things.
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
UPDATE After going to join game the other day, I guess the servers are not there any longer?
They ARE on Jk2MV, so, go with that I would say, less hassle with the resolution and some other visual improvements as well. Anyway keep the above in mind reading forward.
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Please just buy this now.
You have no idea. It has the best multiplayer ever of anything ever created ever.
Well, most of the community is on Jedi Knight 3 Academy now, but, read on.
Obviously this game earns my “I fucking love this game badge”.
– Real player with 20.9 hrs in game
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
DISCLAIMER: THIS GAME TAKES A BIT OF WORK TO RUN PROPERLY AND THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS
Brief overview:
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II is the first game in the Jedi Knight series. Taking place several years after the events of Dark Forces I. Albeit being non canon as of now, Dark Forces II chronologically take place one year after the Battle of Endor. I remember having fond memories if this game when I was younger, about five or six years old when I played this game for the first time. The game itself is very enjoyable, but a common complaint is that the level design can be confusing at times, it is easy to pick up the trail again though, usually by taking a second look at certain things in the level. But that’s definitely not anything to take away from the overall experience.
– Real player with 69.3 hrs in game
Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 was a long awaited sequel for me. By that, I mean I bought it last Christmas and couldn’t get it to work properly. Basically, the music wouldn’t play in the levels and me being a Windows 10 user was a bit frustrated.
Thankfully, on August, there was a music patch, but that meant I had to start a new save file to hear it, which I didn’t mind since I just gave up on the second level back then so I didn’t get too far.
And now I finally beat this and it’s an improvement over the first Dark Forces. The familiar weapons like the blaster and the Stomtrooper rifle return. So do the mines and grenaids. Plasma rifle and pulse rifle. They work just as they did in the first game, but the movement feels more fluid than ever.
– Real player with 26.9 hrs in game