Caltrops - Biohazard: Code Veronica





	[quote name="Senor Barborito MetaFilter Post"]My download finished exactly when I got the box - so I just deleted the RARs. Would be interesting to find out whether that legally counts as pirating the game. In any case - Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB PC2700 (333MHz) DDR, Radeon 9800XT 256MB RAM. Game runs smooth as silk using ATI's new 4.9 drivers at 1024x768 @ high quality with all options maxed. Looks fucking amazing, too, I might add. As far as the game goes - the intro sequence is incredibly well done, the interface to the computers in the game - the way your targeting cursor turns into a mouse icon on a computer screen when you're close and facing it - is so smooth and utterly transparent I can't imagine we'll ever see it done any other way again. The sound design, it's worth mentioning, is almost as good as the graphics. The gameplay, unfortunately, gets old quickly - to make up for this there is, as Blue from Bluesnews mentioned, more story in the first level alone than every other id game ever combined. My beef with the gameplay is that every room proceeds as follows: enter, get attacked from behind (whether by monsters teleporting in behind you, or by some scripted event going off to your left while monsters attack a second later from the right), kill monsters, go and get powerups lying around the room, get attacked again from behind as picking up the items triggers another monster spawn, kill monster, proceed to next room. Wash, rinse, repeat - the game consists of 999 variations on this same basic theme. It gets old, fast, and about halfway through the game I simply gave up, turned on god mode and fast-forwarded through to the ending, pausing only to turn it off for Hell because Hell was really freaking awesome and actually felt and looked like Hell ought to. Everything about this game except the basic gameplay is perfect - the models, the plot, the sound, the textures, the content people did an awesome job. It's nice to see id actually put out an honest-to-God full product for the first time since Doom 2, I just wish the game was more fun with god mode off than it is with god mode on. posted by Ryvar at 5:39 AM PST on August 5 [/quote]