Hello Cruel World
Saturday, February 22, 2003
 
Copied for fun & learning from a PC Format game review ( a UK mag, as you might tell from the price). Trying out getting different formatting onto the blog. Now looks better, but there are big gaps between lines. This might have to do.
Tried out the Mozilla web page composer here. Looks like it doesn't produce very 'clean' code, though.
The words are all here, but messed up. (Think like John Cage.) Have spent half-hour trying to fix something that took 10 minutes to type! Will try to fix it better again later.


SNIPER

PATH OF VENGEANCE
£30 Xicat Interactive www.xicat.com. 020 7251 8000

Sniping's no joke - as the US saw. This is even worse.



NeedsPII-600, 128Mb, 16Mb 3D card



Wants 1Ghz PIII, 256Mb, 32Mb card



Words fail us. Well, that's not entirely
true: "Aaaargghh!" is appropriate. This is a game too terrible for words
to describe orinsults to bruise. Nevertheless, in case you're in any doubt,
it is filth, it is scum, it is week-old cowpat baked into a pie. Had it shippped
with a box of laxaives, it would've been two games in one. Back to our prolapse,
already in progress


Your name is Sniper, and you are a sniper. Such narrative creativity
will not be seen again, although the level of incompetence that sees you spend
most of the game charging around with a shotgun will undoubtedly go down
in the annals of FPS legend. Enemy snipers' rifles emit beams of light that
bear no relation to where they're aiming, while SWAT teams have the unusual
ability to slow your PC to a crawl by deploying deadly lens flare effects.
The level design borders on the hysterical, hitting its climax in a top-security
prison that's decorated with photos of what can only be one of the developers'
six-year-old daughters and a spraypainted version of the Sniper
logo. Even in the guards' offices. We couldn't make this stuff up


There are only two possible explanations. First: Monolith's Jason
Hall systematically ran over every designer's extended family with a Buick*,
and this is their way of discrediting the Lithtech engine in revenge. Second:
an administrative cock-up resulted in the test game that the developers had
knocked out in a week being mass-distributed by accident. Because this is
no mere entertainment product. It is the nadir, the absolute lowest that
a full-priced title has been for many an aeon - so comically bad that to call
it the gaming version of Manos: Hands of Fate would do a grave disservice
to the worst film ever. It is hateful, bilious, repellent garbage, a festering
pile of badly chewed ideas floating in a lake of its own crapulence. Anyway,
in conclusion: Best. Game. Ever.


Richard Cobbett




PCFVerdict



Pros: One day you'll die and the hurting will stop

Cons: Today is not that day




Get friends around to mock it; you might get £2.50 of fun from it.            12%

[*Why a Buick? Why a duck?]


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