Wow. This game left me with no words to utter, so I don't know where to start from. Ok, let's just say that this game is one of the most visually impressive games I’ve ever play (give me a break, I still got a Pentium-100!!!), and it’s also one of the more interesting game experiences I've ever had. In MDK, you play the role of Kurt Hectic, some androgenic kind of super-hero, whose mission is to rescue a handful of cities from the grasp of the usual bad guys who want to destroy them. This game is a genre-cross between a third-person-shooter and a platform arcade from the eighties. Yes, Lara Croft meets Super Mario! As a matter of fact, you got a bunch of power-ups and bonuses that helps you in your quest, restoring your health or giving you special items. You also got an ample selection of weapons and grenades including a very well designed sniper mode. One of the best issues of the game is that it combines perfectly brainteaser puzzles with reckless action. Thanks to it, MDK never gets boring or repetitive, because you don’t have always to kill all the critters on the screen in order to beat it. The puzzles vary from climbing up the usual annoying set of floating platforms, to finding a disguise in order to sneak past a bunch of evil-looking (and very powerful) robot guards. Good absurd humour is another one of the best issues of MDK, which is something usual to every Shiny Entertainment's release since Earthworm Jim. For example, one of the power-ups you may encounter on your missions is the World’s Smallest Nuclear Explosion. When deployed, this will detonate an hobbit-size atomic bomb (with a very tiny mushroom cloud and fallout included) that is very useful… to unlock doors. The game is full of this kind of jokes, and that helps very much in making it that funny. But the very, very best issue of MDK, by far, are the graphics. THEY ARE OUTSTANDING!!! The surrealistic landscapes of the levels are a gorgeous feast to the eyes. Take, for example, the last arena screens from Level 2, the best of them in my opinion. The whole place is made of mirrors which reflect some alien buildings that stand on the horizon; and when I say “reflect”, I mean that. I only can describe the graphics by saying “wow”. If you want to see it for yourself, in the GameSpot screenshot gallery for this game you will find a picture of this: go, and see if I told you lies. You’re maybe thinking that you will need at least 4 MB of VRAM, plus an acceleration card, in order to enjoy this graphical bacchanal. Wrong. MDK runs with 1 MB, without acceleration, and its graphics work fast and smooth! Hey, this game even runs perfectly in plain DOS! Congratulations, Shiny! You have made the impossible: an impressive game for old machines with no stressing hardware requirements! The only problem I’ve found in the game is this: it’s very short. At the same time, it’s very long. Short, because it got only 6 levels. Long, because the levels are so hard and challenging that you will need weeks, months, in order to beat each of them. You got only one “life”, and you can only save your games between levels; so every time you lose you got to start the level from the very beginning. And that’s where frustration comes. Even with this permanent risk of hating the game because of this feature, MDK is definitively a must-have. Believe me: it’s not very usual to see games of this quality out there. Thumbs up, way up, including those of the feet!
Man back then, those were the days, I played this game when I was 7 years old and I can't leave this review behind because this game got me into pc gaming. It was really hard game, but I loved it. The graphics were amazi... Read Full Review
So it's 2007, and I'm writing a review on a game from 1997. I'll be brief cause probably no one will play this game again. In all my years of gaming I have never found a game more fun than MDK. I have probably playe... Read Full Review
