Got this as a freebie on Epic, you might want to consider holding onto your money for now. Honestly, I ran into so much shit with this game within the first 90 or so minutes, it is utterly BAFFLING to me. There's a level of gross incompetence on display here that I wouldn't expect from anyone who has spent more than 10 minutes in front of a computer. Yup, it's one of
those "remasters"...
Off the top of my head:
- Graphics look like blurred shit. It looks even worse on my computer than in the comparison video above. I don't know what exactly is going on there, my guess is that if I switch the resolution to 1920x1080, the game somehow fails to inform my display to switch to 1920x1080, so instead it plays at 1920x1080 downscaled to 1366x768. It looks blurry and pixelly and just plain awful in ways I haven't seen from any other game I own.
- I had my first crash to desktop within some 10-15 minutes of play time...
- Controls like ass - sprinting in particular is horrible
- For some reason the game doesn't save a config file on my computer - you need to change all the settings every time you restart the game
- Went to PCGamingWiki to see if I can find something to beef up the horrible graphics. Found this instead:
But wait, it gets better: The cutscene folder features each and every video TWICE. It gets even betterer: One of these two formats features the original 720p (I presume) videos uprezzed to 1920x1080 HD (with
no gains to the visual fidelity, since the original assets are long lost and they simply upscaled those videos) and the other format being in - I kid you not! - 3840x2160 (!) resolution, again with zero discernible gains in visual fidelity. Around 60% of the disk space this thing eats up is WASTED on literal rubbish files.
- The only thing the Epic version has going for it is that it's DRM-free. This will probably be void in the Steam version anyway, and considering the technical proficiency on display in this "remaster", the lack of DRM in the Epic version can safely be chalked up to the dev team being too fucking dumb to get Denuvo running properly.
Unless this gets upvoted by fanboys on Steam, I foresee a "Mixed" or "Mostly positive" reception on Steam at best.