'Dark Messiah of might and magic'
Which is definitely on my list of good series turned FPS, although in truth it died with the small buggy mess that is Might and Magic IX. I remember my father saying that they were getting it back together with Messiah, and he took my reserved interest as a good reason to buy the game. A couple weeks later, I decided to install it, and during I tried to imagine what kind of party I might put together; looking at the ugly 3d on the box, I was expecting there would be mechanics for controling multiple party members in tight spaces. I was, however, interrupted in thought when both scanners on that computer noticed some "Pro" spyware, that had apparently infected the game. Removing it, the Messiah setup immediately said there was an error with the files; apparently the reason the spyware was 'professional' was because Ubisoft packaged it with the game. This dissapointed me extremely, but since there presumeably
was a game past the spyware, I messed with it a bit and discovered the setup/launcher didn't detect quarantines if the filepaths weren't changed. The game itself was even more dissapointing than the spyware. Not just because of what it lacked from almost any other game in the series (i.e. imagination), but because what it did have only added up to about 2 minutes of interest (guided fireballs:2s, rope ~dynamics:3s, pointlessly bloodly sneak-attacks:1s, telekinesis:11s, fired ropes:4s, plot:~25s[but not for the reasons the authors intended, like most of these]; bosses:18s...).
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Topic: Syndicate the FPS (Read 12009 times)