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After playing some other vaguely similar games, I felt compelled to try FUEL again. I'd forgotten why I abandoned it the first time, but it didn't take long to remember. Here is a short list of pros and cons to remind me if this situation ever happens again. Lists make for very lazy reviews, I know, but this game doesn't deserve more effort. Pros Trainer saved in patch folder. But why are you installing FUEL again…
There's a moment in Back To The Future: The Game where Marty ends up in a totalitarian version of Hill Valley. (Don't worry, I'll get to the right game in a moment.) He manages to get to the mayor's office, where 'Citizen Brown' is in charge, and tries to explain what's gone wrong. Doc Brown is a smart man and, although he doesn't immediately believe it, he quickly understands just how important it is to set…
I was curious what others felt about this game after I finished it, and it seems everyone has fairly similar opinions, falling on one side of a fence or the other, or carefully balancing on the edge. I'm nowhere near the fence. There are two themes in the game - exploration with a touch of puzzle-solving, and platforming. The latter is atrocious . Instant deaths, infuriating checkpoints (and no quicksave or any kind…
I just put 1700 points or so into the wiki for this, so it seems only reasonable to add a review and get all subjective about it, right? Frankly, while I like flight sims, and sims in general, this is the first arcadey flight combat game I've played recently (no Ace Combat , no HAWX , no... whatever the other options are). But it was cheap and the screenshots looked okay and I like flying games, so how bad could it…
Having just finished it, and being forced to pick a rating... four seems too generous, but it deserves more than three and I'd rather round up. I'm inclined to give it the half a star just for finally being released on PC (the port is serviceable, as well - not an upgrade over the now three-year-old console version, but performance is okay and it didn't crash). I played with a 360 controller, and managed well enough…
I'm not really into twitch shooters, or arcade-lightgun-style games, so even if this was well-made I don't think I'd enjoy it all that much. That doesn't matter, since the game is terrible. AI is awful, level design is awful, weapon feel is awful, controls are... pretty bad, graphics are awful. There's no checkpointing, but that wasn't an issue because before I got through the first level I just used the cheats that…
There aren't really all that many games about world "simulation", and few of those are modern-day, so standards for this kind of thing aren't terribly high. But unless the computer you're reading this review on is also from the 90s and you can't play anything newer, this one ultimately isn't worth your time. From a purely technological standpoint, the game hasn't aged well. It's stuck at 800x600 and only works…
Honestly, I haven't played a lot of adventure games. The only one I recall in recent time was another Telltale game (the similarly episodic but otherwise incomparable Back to the Future game). But I suspect even if I had been keeping up and had a proper benchmark for comparison I'd still be rating this five stars. The less said and spoilt about the actual plot, the better. But I think the biggest (and possibly most…
