![]() ![]() Included is a Consortium handbook with scrawled notes from your resistance comrades and a hilarious newsletter showing everyday living in this brave new world, both of which give depth to the otherwise search-and-destroy nature of the game.Īvoiding the ubiquitous first-person perspective, Crusader utilizes a three-quarter overhead view, similar to Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure or later entries in the Ultima series. The tone is set by the excellent packaging materials, which recall the halcyon days of the late, great Infocom. As a defector from the WEC's elite Silencer force, you have lent your skills to the resistance movement. Individual rights are nonexistent, and every aspect of daily life has come under the control of the World Economic Consortium. The game is set in a cartoon-like, Orwellian future. ![]() In Crusader, only one thing is important: Things blow up real good. ![]() Forget the sometimes frustrating controls which can send your character jumping across the screen without warning. Forget the cheesy full motion video scenes and the obligatory bad acting. Such is the case with Crusader: No Remorse, a hyper-violent shooter from Origin Systems. There's enough exploration/strategy to make the game interesting and enough stuff to destroy to make it entertaining.It's a rare treat when a game is so viscerally exciting that its shortcomings can be overlooked. In most instances (including the civilian) the best course of action is to blow up the offending obstacle and continue. It is also easy to lose yourself in the isometric environment or get lodged into a corner or just run into something, like a civilian, and find yourself stuck. Come on! I find it hard to believe that the elite warriors of the future can't walk and pull a trigger simultaneously. You can't run and shoot at the same time. On-screen control is a bit troublesome as well. If you had to remember all of the things, the game would suck. Up and X is jump, left and square is roll left, right and triangle is strafe right. Because the game was ported from the PC, each button does four different things depending on which way you press the D-pad. Just by wandering around and destroying everything you end up finishing the level.Ĭontrol is, at first, ludicrous. Each level has an objective, such as blowing up a generator or getting top secret info, but no special measures need to be taken in order to achive these goals. Just about everything in the game explodes, so the temptation is to waste time blowing things up. ![]() The gameplay is simple: explore an isometric environment while killing gaurds and collecting ammo to kill more guards. After this epiphane, you join "the resistance" in order to strike back at your former employers. It turned out that the graphics are indeed top-notch, the game does play well and you don't use half of the controls.In the game you control a renegade Silencer, an elite enforcer of the World Economic Consortium, who realizes that he works for a bunch of sleaze-balls. While the game looked great and the gameplay seemed solid, the controls were as complicated as a flight sim. I must admit that when I first saw it, I was a bit troubled. By coolermaster123 | Review Date: September 9, 2019 ![]()
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