It's good.
Except when the graphics engine decided to trick me into thinking that I can run it in DX9 mode, and then suddenly caused a serious crash at the start of one single level (a level which doesn't appear to have any real visual differences...).
Fine, run in DX7 then... the game was just too stupid to figure that out for itself as one should expect it to, right? WRONG! Somehow, this graphics engine crash resulted in it losing all of my saved data and configurations. I say losing, because my profile still takes up 47 MB, which one would assume have been created by some sort of really abysmal save system (though my current faith in the game's developers is low enough that I wouldn't find it hard to believe that the profile, for some reason, starts off at some massive size). Really, how the heck could this have happened? The game popped up a blue screen, made a crackly noise, and stopped anything from working until I restarted the computer. How in the blazes did it manage to delete what must have been a lot of data (judging by their massive save files) from a very particular folder for no apparent reason, when it was meant to be CRASHING!
How could it get worse? I decided that I didn't want to bother playing through again (I'd made it to part 1 of the American campaign)... regardless of how great the game is, it annoys me to have to do that. So, I went on a hunt for a cheat code to skip levels. Somehow, for some stupid reason, there isn't one!
Okay, whatever... contact tech support -- They always help, right? Nope! The guy tells me that I should go into MSConfig and uncheck every program that isn't a proper MS program, because one of them could be interfering with the graphics card driver. Obviously, that did not work. Even more obviously, that was an automatically generated message. It was then, of cours,e that I figured out WHY it crashed myself: DX9 Mode and the game being too stupid to tell me not to... or catch the error without killing everything else in the process. So, I add to the thing that that did not solve my problem and that my save files appear to be there but the game does not load them.
Because a response to my problem now would actually require typing instead of just clicking on the auto-message to send me, I have still not recieved a response.
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Even with all that, it's still a great game! Very fun, when it doesn't crash :D
It has a few subtle changes from the original game. Namely, the health system which many reviewers for some stupid reason hated even though it's really a great idea...
Quite a bit of scripting, but the AI is marvelous. I played through a few levels more than once, and each time I played was definietly VERY different from the last... even with the scripting. The scripting in the game, sadly, is mostly you walking somewhere, triggering guys to storm a room or such, which makes things too easy at times. But ah well, it's still great fun, and most of the scripted events are well placed.
It's still a shame that I can't throw back grenades that have been tossed at me, now that EVERYBODY ELSE can, and does it all the time!
Except when the graphics engine decided to trick me into thinking that I can run it in DX9 mode, and then suddenly caused a serious crash at the start of one single level (a level which doesn't appear to have any real visual differences...).
Fine, run in DX7 then... the game was just too stupid to figure that out for itself as one should expect it to, right? WRONG! Somehow, this graphics engine crash resulted in it losing all of my saved data and configurations. I say losing, because my profile still takes up 47 MB, which one would assume have been created by some sort of really abysmal save system (though my current faith in the game's developers is low enough that I wouldn't find it hard to believe that the profile, for some reason, starts off at some massive size). Really, how the heck could this have happened? The game popped up a blue screen, made a crackly noise, and stopped anything from working until I restarted the computer. How in the blazes did it manage to delete what must have been a lot of data (judging by their massive save files) from a very particular folder for no apparent reason, when it was meant to be CRASHING!
How could it get worse? I decided that I didn't want to bother playing through again (I'd made it to part 1 of the American campaign)... regardless of how great the game is, it annoys me to have to do that. So, I went on a hunt for a cheat code to skip levels. Somehow, for some stupid reason, there isn't one!
Okay, whatever... contact tech support -- They always help, right? Nope! The guy tells me that I should go into MSConfig and uncheck every program that isn't a proper MS program, because one of them could be interfering with the graphics card driver. Obviously, that did not work. Even more obviously, that was an automatically generated message. It was then, of cours,e that I figured out WHY it crashed myself: DX9 Mode and the game being too stupid to tell me not to... or catch the error without killing everything else in the process. So, I add to the thing that that did not solve my problem and that my save files appear to be there but the game does not load them.
Because a response to my problem now would actually require typing instead of just clicking on the auto-message to send me, I have still not recieved a response.
n
Even with all that, it's still a great game! Very fun, when it doesn't crash :D
It has a few subtle changes from the original game. Namely, the health system which many reviewers for some stupid reason hated even though it's really a great idea...
Quite a bit of scripting, but the AI is marvelous. I played through a few levels more than once, and each time I played was definietly VERY different from the last... even with the scripting. The scripting in the game, sadly, is mostly you walking somewhere, triggering guys to storm a room or such, which makes things too easy at times. But ah well, it's still great fun, and most of the scripted events are well placed.
It's still a shame that I can't throw back grenades that have been tossed at me, now that EVERYBODY ELSE can, and does it all the time!