Revolution

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Summary: AAARGH!
Review: Avoid this game. I was gobsmacked to read the positive reviews on this game.

There is little direction, you are left to wander about huge levels with chance bringing you across the necessary switch. The 4th level has caused me just to walk away from the game (Confluence). I cannot find a way out of the inital 3 levels. An online Game site I found said it was a bug so I downloaded an 80mb patch and had to replay from begining. Still no luck. Gamesite gave it 2.7 out of 10.

The plot sounds great but is awful in reality - the script is like a 50's B movie and rather than guiding into suspicion about the Corporation ejects you into the Ressistance with the speed and elegance as a bad case of diorrea.

I came across these reviews while trying to find BestBuys policy on returns of Software. ...

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Summary: This is my kind of game!
Review: Having stated that this is my kind of game with such enthusiasm, I must go on to state that it might not appeal to everyone. It may move a bit too slowly for the twitch-shooter crowd, but then again, I'm currently playing it on 'easy' setting, so bumping that up to 'normal' or 'hard' may fix that if you think it needs fixing. This is a first-person shooter of the highest magnitude. First though, let me tell you what I look for in an FPS game, and you can keep that in mind while you read my review. My priorities are primarily atmosphere and exploration. Run and gun action comes pretty low on my list. For instance, I loved 'Doom' because of its immersive atmosphere and sense of place. Not because of all the action.

'Revolution' is a very unique game, primarily because of its totally stupendous level design. At the time of this writing I was unable to find any information on this game, so I took a chance based on the screenshots on the box cover. And let me tell you, those shots do not do the game justice! I wandered around within the game for a good hour with my jaw hanging open at how drop-dead beautiful this game is. It is a futuristic city and it is huge; a far cry from the claustrophobic settings that I've been accustomed to in most shooters. 'Jedi Knight' had the same effect on me when I first played that game back in '97, but 'Jedi Knight' has nothing on the vast and absolutely stunning architectural grandeur of 'Revolution'. Having not been able to find info on this game at the time of this writing, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that it uses the Quake 3 engine, but it looks nothing like Quake 3. I was awed by the vastness of the areas. It is really an experience you won't forget.

The first several hours and several levels I didn't run into a single opponent, and I thought there was something wrong with the game. Turns out I was in the tutorial. But it's the most gorgeous and non-intrusive tutorial I've ever seen, and you don't even know it's the tutorial. Just seeing a large part of the city this way was a pleasure to me. More tutorials should be this good!

This game graphically has no peer at this time. Excellent use of lighting, colors, and architecture. I felt like I was really in an actual place. Hell, even if there were no guns or enemies, just seeing this place is easily worth the price of admission. The artists and designers clearly spent a great deal of time on this, and I thank them. Ambient sound (such as wind, machinery, and the cool flying cars passing by overhead) is also well-done. The gameplay is really nothing new however. The puzzle solving is pretty easy and you basically just have to accomplish some fairly straightforward missions. You get a few decent weapons and they work just fine. If you're like me and appreciate atmosphere over action, you'll love this game too. My review system is a self-built Athlon 1.2 ghz. with 512 mb ram and a geForce 4 Ti4200 128 mb video card. The game is stable on this system and I have experienced no crashes, however I have found myself stuck on two levels ('Confluence Point' and 'Biodome Pt.2') for several hours due to apparent bugs in the game that wouldn't allow my exit doors to open. I solved 'Confluence Point' by pure good luck--instead of riding the platform through the door, I stood in front of the door while the platform approached and when the platform hit me, the door opened. The other one I solved by reloading the game twice and the door finally opened. This is a fairly linear game, but sometimes your goals are kind of unclear, partly due to the fact that this game was developed in Romania and the English translation in your mission objectives is pretty bad. I'm still a bit uncertain as to what I actually did to finish certain levels. This game has some minor flaws, but it's still a must-have in my opinion.

Edit--I added this last paragraph 2-4-03. Previously (the first part of this review was submitted 10-26-02), I had given this 5 stars. After having made it through about half the game, I find myself hopelessly stuck. After some searching on the web, I find that I have wasted several hours looking for an impossible answer as to how to continue. Apparently, the final version of this game was never play-tested. The company has released a huge patch to correct this, but these kinds of game-killing bugs should never have shipped in the first place. And while I can understand a few bugs in a game, what really ticks me off about this is that these bugs would have been incredibly easy to fix had someone just taken the time to play through the entire finished version just once before release to make sure a player could at least finish the game without having to download a 21 meg patch and start all over. I still score it high for its atmosphere and sense of wonder. And at least they did release a patch--some companies wouldn't have bothered. A great deal of work went into creating this game, and I recommend it to people who are willing to download the patch. If however you don't want to bother with the patch, you will become incredible frustrated wondering if you aren't able to continue playing because you missed something, or because of design flaws. Purchase ONLY if you are willing to patch before starting. So my final score would be as follows: With patch: 5 stars. Without patch: 2 stars. It would be a shame to let this kind of art go unseen, so I'd personally encourage a purchase AND a download. It's worth the effort in my opinion.

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Summary: Worst 3D shooter I ever played
Review: I paid $2 for this at Gamestop. It is worth about $-30, (yes, that is NEGATIVE $30), because I wasted three hours of my life. Most of that three hours was spent working as a JANITOR, where nothing fun is happening.
Most of the game play is spent walking around in circles in empty areas looking for the correct way out. Very boring. Enemies are not fun to fight. My favorite was the huge level with invisible enemies. How fun is it to spend hours going over the same layout again and again while looking for INVISIBLE creatures.
This could be the worst game I ever played.

Yes, I was stuck forever at the eco-dome, because there the door out wouldn't open. I think that might have been the bug referred to earlier.

Do not buy this game.

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Summary: I don't see what the problem is.....
Review: I set this game up. I played it. I found it very satisfying. I did not see any problems outside of the normal 'once-in-a-while' clipping deal. I had no lagging during play or anything. I found the save system liberal. The settings(from easy to hard) were distinctly different. Easy was very much so. Hard was VERY much so.The graphics were smooth, the play areas were HUGE. The AI was only decent. But, most games fall short of good AI.It installed easily and played well on a moderate system. 900 MHZ ATHLON. 1 GB RAM , 64 MB DDR GEFORCE 4 4200, SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY GAMER. Don't let anybody turn you away from this one. If you enjoy strategy, and a good shooter combined, this game does a fine job of delivering with less bugs than most high profile games that are released. Note : If you get stuck in a pit and the only way out, which is a ladder, is suddenly gone...get the update patch for the game and that will fix you right up.

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Summary: I don't see what the problem is.....
Review: I set this game up. I played it. I found it very staisfying. I did not see any problems outside of the normal 'once-in-a-while' clipping deal. I had no lagging during play or anything. I found the save system liberal. The settings(from easy to hard) were distinctly different. Easy was very much so. Hard was VERY much so.The graphics were smooth, the play areas were HUGE. The AI was only decent. But, most games fall short of good AI.It installed easilly and played well on a moderate system. 900 MHZ ATHLON. 1 GB RAM , 64 MB DDR GEFORCE 4 4200, SOUNDBLASTER AUDIGY GAMER. Don't let anybody turn you away from this one. If you enjoy strategy, and a good shooter combined, this game does a fine job of delivering with less bugs than most high profile games that are released.

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Summary: Warning folks, don't buy this one
Review: This game is terrible. I bought it and it's the only game I've ever done the research into finding out the info to sending it back to it's parent company for a refund or been irritated enough to write a warning about.

1) I've played 2 hours so far and I've heard 3 lines of speech in the whole game. I've seen or been told NO information as to what the heck I'm supposted to do and end up blindly progressing foward.
2) The movement is messed up. You're either super fast or way slow. No middle ground.
3) Did I mention the only thing the 30 people I've seen have said is "nothing to say!" in an angry tone. Not even a complete sentance! And noone has told me what I'm doing except looking for a job as a janitor.
4) From the online sites I've seen, it takes a patch just to be able to pass the first 3 levels cause they forgot to put in a switch or some crap. Then you get to do it all over again after you put in the patch.
5) I have no Idea what I'm supposted to do.
6) Why am I flipping switches?
7) Why did I buy this game?

Go play an old dos game, go outside, do anything but buy or play this game as you will go dumb operating the switch cause it lights up green and for no other reason but that.

NW

Rating:
Summary: Warning folks, don't buy this one
Review: This game is terrible. I bought it and it's the only game I've ever done the research into finding out the info to sending it back to it's parent company for a refund or been irritated enough to write a warning about.

1) I've played 2 hours so far and I've heard 3 lines of speech in the whole game. I've seen or been told NO information as to what the heck I'm supposted to do and end up blindly progressing foward.
2) The movement is messed up. You're either super fast or way slow. No middle ground.
3) Did I mention the only thing the 30 people I've seen have said is "nothing to say!" in an angry tone. Not even a complete sentance! And noone has told me what I'm doing except looking for a job as a janitor.
4) From the online sites I've seen, it takes a patch just to be able to pass the first 3 levels cause they forgot to put in a switch or some crap. Then you get to do it all over again after you put in the patch.
5) I have no Idea what I'm supposted to do.
6) Why am I flipping switches?
7) Why did I buy this game?

Go play an old dos game, go outside, do anything but buy or play this game as you will go dumb operating the switch cause it lights up green and for no other reason but that.

NW

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Summary: Still not worth it
Review: This is my edit to the first review. I played other games from Activision thinking maybe it was my system and SOFII ruled. No problems at all with that game so something must be wrong with Revolution. I'm still over-stepping and getting choppy movement. There ARE liberal saves but who wants to play a game that requires you to quicksave after every turn or jump? Borrow it from the guy near you who paid the $$ and judge for yourself...1st review - Every couple seconds the game gets really slow and choppy and you can't control your own movements so you end up walking off a ledge and having to start over again just trying to get across a simple room. I fell in one room that allowed me to climb out once but now the ladder is busted and I had to restart at my last save point. I took off that stupid auto-run and it still runs unless you hold down the walk key. I gave it three days of messing with it, and it still does the same thing. The subtitles don't keep up with the speaking so that's annoying also. It's pretty linear so far. I heard I had to go to my apartment but there's no map or signs to follow so I had no idea if I was even in my own apartment when I got there. needless to say I had no idea what I was suppossed to do when I got there. I will probably chalk this game up there with the pet rock.