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Posted June 02, 2010
I bought this game the year it was released to keep me waiting for Half-Life 2 and Doom 3, and was pleasantly surprised. The gameplay is fun, the levels are open ended to a degree - you get a base full of goons on your path and it's your choice whether you'll try to snipe all of them from a hiding place or sneak in and try for silent kills. There are vehicles, used both by you and against you. There are some 'horror' levels and they are genuinely atmospheric.
The things that keep me from awarding a bigger score are the story, which seems like a random mix of cliches (it's one of the few games I skipped cutscenes in without watching, enough said), and a few gameplay problems - the "radar" makes it too easy to hide in the bushes and snipe every incoming enemy, and there are some boring enemies that have too much hitpoints.
Posted January 30, 2011
Yeah, the story is pretty bad. The nice thing is that a lot of the gameplay issues can be fixed with the FCAM 1.7 mod (better weapon balance, naturally smarter enemies that don't have x-ray vision, better graphics, etc).

I'm playing it for the first time courtesy of the holiday sale and really enjoying it.
Posted November 04, 2013
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rbwilliams: Yeah, the story is pretty bad. The nice thing is that a lot of the gameplay issues can be fixed with the FCAM 1.7 mod (better weapon balance, naturally smarter enemies that don't have x-ray vision, better graphics, etc).

I'm playing it for the first time courtesy of the holiday sale and really enjoying it.
I really want to like this game, but am very disappointed with the "patched to version 1.4" that GOG are offering here. The psychic enemies are doing my head in. I tried both the AMD64 and the latest FCAM - none of which I can get working. Very disappointed with all this i.e charging for a bad version of a great game then expecting us to do endless D.I.Y and fixes, which in the case of this particular game, I've found to be a nightmare.

GOG should offer the unofficial patches here, with clear instructions; or alternatively, supply the first version of the game (v.1.0 or whatever) and split the other official patches into separate downloads so we can choose if we'd like to patch it right up to the broken 1.4 patch.

Update: Once I finally got the unofficial patches and mods working, I'm having a blast playing this. Very fun and impressive even now; must have been jaw-dropping in 2004! :)
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