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From the makers of Sin, Ritual have spent their time refining and honing the Quake III engine to make a 3D Shooter with more adventurous overtones, played from a third person perspective and based on the obscure comic book series of the same name Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2. The heavy weapons everyone associates with this game type are still present, but, to make thing a little more interesting, the inclusion of older weapons like a sling, a sword an axe and a flamethrower have been added. In fact, despite taking the engine of one of the heavy hitting 3D shooters of yesteryear, like Half Life, there's a heavy Tomb Raider influence per
From the makers of Sin, Ritual have spent their time refining and honing the Quake III engine to make a 3D Shooter with more adventurous overtones, played from a third person perspective and based on the obscure comic book series of the same name Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2. The heavy weapons everyone associates with this game type are still present, but, to make thing a little more interesting, the inclusion of older weapons like a sling, a sword an axe and a flamethrower have been added. In fact, despite taking the engine of one of the heavy hitting 3D shooters of yesteryear, like Half Life, there's a heavy Tomb Raider influence permeating throughout the action. Like Deus Ex the story is advanced with intelligently written if sometimes scrappily rendered cut scenes, which pop up so often that they begin to turn to padding after a while, but Lara Croft fans are probably more used to this than action-hardened Quake/Unreal devotees. The graphics are excellent but unfortunately there are still the problems with line of sight and collision detection seen in Tomb Raider when lining yourself up with platforms--if the PC disagrees with your viewpoint, you "miss" the platform and fall to your death. Be ready to save before making that jump--another 3D shooter mainstay. Unlike Daikatana, you'll still want to play through the early stages to see the graphics improve even further. It's not a disk hog at 400Mb HDD install. There's no multiplayer, maybe this will be the basis of a sequel depending on this game's success. Ultimately Heretic/Hexen and Tomb Raider devotees will enjoy this game the most, action obsessives may miss multiplayer too much to take the plunge- unless they enjoyed that other off-the-wall 3D shooter by Take 2, Kiss Psycho Circus.-Kenneth Henry
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Manufacturer: Take 2 Interactive
Release date: 21 September 2000
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5026555032865
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