Recent content by jimslade

I am sorry, but WC1 was not a great game. Not for its time and not during its time. I was there when we all shrugged and said: "Nay, that's just a Dune2-clone with a fantasy setting and one faction less." Seriously, WC1 was not a big deal back then. I personally don't know anybody who ever...

P.S.: I haven't put thousands of dollars into that game. I'm not crazy. ;)

Quoting the most flawed article of the Escapist, debunked as just plain wrong and badly researched from several sources doesn't leave a good impression. The whole "scandal" about Derek Smart and the Escapist was so silly and embarrassing, I'm really wondering why anyone would dig that up as an...

So, tell me: which game has the best story? Well, Deus Ex 1 has. HR was predictable as hell with a boring to outright stupid protagonist and lots of plot cliches. First, you don't really see his wife die. In every movie and every game this means, she's still alive. But okay, Jensen...

The new Deus Ex seems to become the worst of the series. Yeah, I get it, the weak plot of the horrendous last one (yes, I think it was bad as hell storywise and in terms of gameplay) led to a future in which "poor" Augs are hunted by kind-of-racist Non-Augs. Most probably though, the real future...

Looks too much like DX:HR. And honestly: I really disliked that one. The story was underdeveloped and highly predictable, the gameplay was pretty weak (reuse of arenas, the same alternate routes too often, repetitive hacking mechanics, wrist blades had to reload energy for bland balancing...

@Shaun Kennedy: You should try a virtual machine. One tool for this is VW Ware, which is free to use for private purposes. Just install the software, create a virtual machine and install Windows 95 or whatever Shadow of Power was running on onto it. Worked for me when I was trying to run "Space...

@The Madman: Maybe the game you're talking about is "Bug Blasters" for the Sega CD? Curious because of your post, I just found this on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weus8grdLnY

@Fox12: I remember Forsaken, too! A friend of mine caught it when sealed copies of it were thrown to the crowd at CeBit Home. Man, that's long ago, maybe 1995 or 1996? If I remember correctly, Forsaken was kind of a Descent clone that used the upcoming 3Dfx-chips back then. And I also remember...

UPDATE: I found the developer of "HerzBlut" and I am in contact with him. There is a good chance I will finally get my hands on a copy of that game. :D

Today I was reading the old pc games magazines again I keep in my shelf for over twenty years now. Especially the issues of 1996 and 1997 caught my attention. While doing this, I found out that there are some games everybody seems to have forgotten COMPLETELY. I found games I never heard of...

This review actually surprised me a lot. The wc 1+2 review made me install wc3 last week and play through it from beginning to end for the first time (I bought my first pc to play wc3 and never was able to until now... long story... ;) ). I have to say that I had mixed about wc3 after finishing...