Recent reviews by F-3000

Nice action, lots of things to do, large area to roam. The grappling hook is even better than in previous JC. Actual story is pathetically short.

Old and slightly buggy, but still entertaining.

System requirements don't specify anything other than D11 regarding graphics, but when trying to launch the game, I just get a notify that my system ain't compatible. Awesome. How demanding a card game could be after all?

One thing I hate with this game is, that a half hour feels like ten minutes. There's bugs, mainly with side missions, but I love this game anyways.

Compared to the Alien Breed 1 (solo)... More monsters, more area (yet more linear) to prowl without area transition, more lag to make you aim all over the place. Much more locked views that are much more annoying. More back'n'forth wandering. More intense storytelling, which was a very positive suprise. Instead of 3 unused weapons, this time there's only two which I didn't use at all (flamethrower and rocket launcher). That laughing became soooo annoying over time.

If you're interested of the storyline, get AB1 and play it through first, because AB1 is cut in mid-action, and continues here.

Gosh those repetitive battles became boring. I wish the game would have been more entertaining. Although, I guess I missed 66% of the jokes.

About 8 hours of point and click, even if counting the little time spent for rewinds due to buggy user interface (UI). The UI stops reacting to mouse clicks and/or visually breaks otherwise, and this seems to plague mostly the beginning of the game, causing great confusion for some players. But if you can live past the rather rare random UI freakouts, it's all worth the time. At one spot I was able to get the UI fixed by leaving area and returning. One other was that I had to quit the game with Alt+F4 because there simply was no other option, as there was no graphical UI (GUI) elements at all, while nothing reacted to clicks and keypresses had no effect (except the mentioned).

Puzzles are not anything majorly difficult, it was mostly soft flythrough for me with some occasional points where I had to stop for a moment to scratch my head. Even more cool is that you can get past some situations with several ways, greatly reducing the possibility of getting stuck.

One thing I kept constantly forgetting, was that commonly thru the game it's not enough that you have an item in your inventory, you actually have to give it to a person/object to trigger wanted conversation/action. Usually this led into going thru short conversations/monologues yet again. But that was my fault and problem.

One suprising, and in a way somewhat amusing, feature of the game is that it's graphically heavy. I couldn't have full graphics with 1600x900 resolution, because even the menu-view was painful to use - mouse response was heavily lagged and GUI elements moved lagging. So I ended up with 1280x720 with medium-quality graphics, but I must say that I didn't see it ruining anything. On the other hand, I'm currently playing with a cheap-end laptop with external screen.

The most annoying was the constant loading-screen with Christine. Merely opening the town map required it, and if you forgot something, returning to the point where you left required full-time loading. But luckily the loading-times were in seconds mostly, so it wasn't end of the world.

Overall, I'd say that it was worth it.

This was awesome game that is now broken without certain key DLCs. I'd love to play it, but world conquering is "impossible" with barebone-game, because game mechanics work greatly against player without proper DLCs. [Edit] I'm curious to know why some people rate(d) this review not useful (you can always comment reviews). I've played this game for nearly 200 hours, so I do have quite some experience with it. Both before and after certain f*tard updates that were made for making people to buy DLCs because of the otherwise "broken" game mechanics. Broken in a way that your abilities to advance conquer-wise are greatly hindered. [Edit] Now the base game is free. Kind of amusing, yet when considering the hoard of DLCs and the total price, it makes sense.

It was awesome game back then, this remaster brings the awesomeness quite well to today. Even though it's a bit short and there could be a few more puzzles in it - I played it through in about 4 hours - I enjoyed the game (again). I personally disliked the time-limited parts at the end, which created quite a frustrating, but that didn't kill the overall joy this game gave. I got it with 8€ ($9) from Humble Bundle (along with a punch of other games), but I think I would've been happy even if I had paid the full 15€ for it. Although I'm even more happier for having it cheaper AND having supported charity with the purchase ($8.10 from that $9 went to charity, I always change the sums in HB bundle purchases).

This game is cinematic-driven puzzler. Puzzles are not hard, but they do require some thinking. I think the pegi-16 is a slight overshoot, but that's just my opinion. Something like 14 would be more proper. There's 40 achievements, out of which I got 36 open just by playing and without trying anything fancy. Except one, because I usually don't watch end-credits.

I warmly recommend this game to anyone, regardless are you old timer or a completely new for this game.

It's old, it got bugs, but it works. For me at least, with Win8. Rather simple when comparing to Master of Orion 3, which might be a good thing for someone.