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Keeping track of more than a dozen soldiers with 10 skills, their inventories (including ammo count and weight), dynamic visibility, line of sight, destructible terrain, consequences of missed shots (like friendly fire or destroyed loot), etc. quickly overwhelms noobies, putting the real strategy masters in the limelight. And this is just a battle out of many, with base building, personell management, logistics, reconnaissance, research and manufacturing between them. See More
This recurring gimmick is fun enough to where I feel it deserves a very special mention. In some levels, there is an airboard somewhere or another which you need to use to progress. Once obtained, you can use it to basically fly for the next segment of the level (or, in some releases, the entire rest of the level due to a bug). So basically the game turns into a neat, loosely shoot 'em up-esque kind of game for a bit. Really fun idea! See More
Episode B in the CD release suffers more from screen crunch than basically any other episode in the game, especially when played on a high enough difficulty setting to where the zombie hands show up in Stonar, the second planet of the episode. But also Raneforus has monkeys that fall from the sky and there's basically nothing you can do to avoid that other than memorizing where they are. Not the end of the world, but in my eyes a notable low point of the game. See More
Not the best platformer ever made, but considering I'd argue its sequel is up there, of course the one that started the series is still a pretty great one in its own right, and one of the best games on DOS despite a few glaring problems, mostly related to screen crunch. Has far smoother scrolling than games like Commander Keen, nicer visuals than most other DOS platformers, faster gameplay, tons of stage variety, the soundtrack is nice, this thing is not perfect but I really like it. See More
Each episode has 6 levels each, split across 3 planets, and there's 9 episodes in the CD release, and 6 episodes in the original. Each planet tends to have some thing or another to make it stand out from every other planet in the game. Not to mention all the easter eggs and hidden levels, the branching stage paths that encourage a bit of exploration, etc. See More
The default gun works well enough as a fallback, the toaster is the default gun but easier to hit with and with an ammo limit, RF missiles are good for hitting multiple enemies at once and a bit above and below you, and Launchers are good for hitting large clusters of enemies closer to the ground or significantly below you. Also TNT can hit every enemy on-screen if need be. See More
The stages mostly play quite differently from each other, and the game is still introducing new ideas up until the literal final level. Tubelectric has Sonic-like tubes mixed with turrets that you have to time your way past to avoid getting shot at, Orbitus has walls that basically let you wall jump, Lagunicus combines dark levels and water levels in a way that somehow actually WORKS and is actually fun despite combining two widely-hated level types, Pezrock has swinging spikes balls that you have to avoid, Crysilis has fast-moving flying springs that you have to precisely platform across... the list goes on and on. See More
Do you like strategy, castles and mythical creatures ? then this classic turn based strategy game (1996) is for you ! Play it for free in your browser at Classic Reload: https://classicreload.com/heroes-of-might-and-magic-ii.html. The gold edition can be bought for 8 Euro on Gog.com:https://www.gog.com/game/heroes_of_might_and_magic_2_gold_edition. See More
Episode 2 and 3's levels are all but copy-pasted from each other, and both more or less spam one specific enemy type (said enemy type is horribly designed in of itself mind you) a lot after a certain point in the name of making things harder. Episode 1 isn't much better, but is, in fairness, less bad by virtue of not spamming that one enemy type. It does however still repeat the same enemy over and over again and call it a level far too often. See More
Perhaps would have been acceptable as an experience in 1992, but there is simply no reason to play it with what DOS shooters came after it. Tyrian, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and heck even Stargunner are all far better games than it. And that's coming from somebody who already thinks Raptor: Call of the Shadows is a bit overrated! Do yourself a favor and don't bother with this one, at least don't play it for more than a few minutes as a curiosity if you do play it since it gets far, far worse after episode 1, which already is just okay at the best of times. Though if you can manage to enjoy this game despite the flaws, more power to you for having fun with something I personally couldn't see any real redeeming value in. See More
The game runs at about 12FPS, which is a problem for a twitch action game about reacting to things fast. You can't react nearly fast enough if you can't see anything until a tenth of a second later, in a game that seemingly expects you to react to stuff faster than that. Additionally, somehow, it pulls off the bizarre feat of managing to lag sometimes despite an already low framerate. See More
There is an enemy type, that shows up increasingly more and more throughout the game, where what it does is the following: Teleport when off-screen. Shoot at any time with a beam that hits the entire height of the screen instnatly, including while off-screen. Quickly dive-bomb the player from wherever it is. Thanks to point 2, the enemy can hit you unavoidably with nothing you can do. This can render levels unwinnable entirely through chance in a game that is supposed to be a twitch reflex action game. See More