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In case you don't know the story yet, here goes: you are the Silencer, a renegade storm trooper that has turned against his former masters within the evil World Economic Consortium or WEC one of the less inspiringly named opponents, if you ask me. Anyhow, the WEC waxed your friends and has repeatedly tried to wax you, so now, naturally, you have a chip on your shoulder and nobody trusts you and you basically want to reduce the WEC to its constituent elements.
You're the Charles Bronson of You know the rest. Gameplay in Crusader: No Regret takes place from a 3D isometric perspective as originally popularized in the later Ultima games.
Silencer as he unleashes his death-dealing weapons in every direction. You think I'm playing up the destruction element in this game too much? Play it if you don't believe me. OK, sure, you have to pick up med kits and keycards here and there, but the theme is mayhem, pure and simple. Perhaps the next installment will be called Crusader: No Remains. Anyway, you control the Silencer with your choice of the keyboard, mouse, or joystick.
The controls take a little getting used to, but once you have the hang of it, it becomes second nature quickly. Origin deserves credit for fixing some of the control quirks found in Crusader: No Remorse , and has graphically smoothed a good deal of the animation. They've also made it possible to blow almost everything up, and they've added several really neat, brutal new weapons, and a good deal more traps, environments and quandaries in this second offering. The graphics in Crusader: No Remorse were what really won folks over the first time around, and they've only improved on them in No Regret.
This is a visually stunning game, and the sheer depth of interaction with the environment is amazing. All this, and Origin managed to make it run smooth as silk and still add to the level of detail in the original Crusader. This is one that you have to play yourself to fully appreciate, as no screenshot or box shot will do it justice.
The audio in No Regret is also first-rate: from the mechanical sounds of the various robots, welding arms, conveyor belts and proximity alarms, to the truly disturbing death shrieks of the Consortium nogoodniks as they run -- on fire and blindly waving their arms -- after encountering the Silencer's immolator rifle. The audio creates an absorbing sense of environment and will make you jump at times when a barrel falls off a ledge, or the Silencer crosses an electric eye beam and suddenly sets off a blaring alarm.
The music, too, is well conceived and adds a sense of urgency to the 'one man against the world' scenarios. You will find no shortage of enemies in No Regret , even on the "Mama's Boy" setting. And this time around as opposed to No Remorse , the enemy AI has been beefed up so that the WEC guards actually have a couple of pretty neat defensive moves and will not just blindly stand behind a barrel waiting for you to blast them.
Also, here you will encounter much more lethal and intelligent robots, and will also come up against several new environmental hazards like radioactive ore. Overall, the enemies, tricks and traps are very challenging, perhaps too challenging for someone who has not played Crusader: No Remorse. In fact, on the 3rd and 4th difficulty settings it takes some good luck and a lot of skill to make it out of the first couple of rooms.
So consider yourself warned -- save often, since you only get one life in No Regret and it can be snuffed out by one shot from some of the larger robots or by an unfortunate laser blast too close to a big rack of something explosive. Crusader: No Remorse really redefined the action genre, or rather came at it from a different view than most gamers were accustomed to. No Regret builds on the strengths of No Remorse and adds in enough new features to make the second installment worthwhile on its own merits.
There really isn't anything else like the Crusader games on the market that comes close to the level of detail, gameplay, and immersive environment. The fluid, lifelike movement of the characters and the excellent rendering of the physical environment in both Crusader titles make the pair of them a "must have" for anyone who loves action games.
Parents should be aware that there is a good deal of graphic violence in both Crusader titles, and that the general level has even been upped a notch in No Regret. You will literally see people lit on fire, frozen and shattered, and boiled to vapor. It is not as gory as some of the fighting games or first-person shooters, but to me it is more realistic since the audio that accompanies the demise of all the bad guys is chillingly lifelike.
This is probably a title that is better for older kids, not only because of the violence, but also because younger kids simply aren't going to have much fun with the controls' learning curve. Well, this should be the one thing that the folks at Origin themselves regret: I really feel that they missed ahuge opportunity by making No Regret single-player only.
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