Just something about it
I was amazed the atmosphere was still there, the weapons where still there in fact in the first 5 minutes i thought yes i have found a way back into my childhood. I clicked to start the first misson.....
At that moment all dreams i had of having a 'new' AD were smashed. The reasons well simply the flight controls where amazingly simplist and so was combat simplified. AD was a 1996 game but it had better combat system you could for example turn of your engines and your noise level would drop and as such you nobody could tell you were their. Or you could hit into a building which made enought noise to distract noise homing topedeos. And although it has been a AD thing for short mission they most -especilally near the end- where hard core. And then we come to the part which really £@%* me off and that is the flight. Yep you can side step. Don't ask how. This makes the game feel like some lame shooter not a ship game and this really winds me up. So instead of preforming attack runs and rolling and skimming the oceans floor to evade attacks you now sit infront of him shoot at him and evade. This is made even easier later in the game when you are given an autoaiming gun which you don't even need to look at you enemly to shoot. HOW RETARDED DO THEY THINK WE ARE?
However......
There where sections of the game i really liked. For example i fought the storyline was intresting and by the end-they leave you on a cliff hanger- of it i wanted to know what is going to happen next. I know the dialogue is as free formed as AD but you know it was fun while it lasted.* In general it is as the classification says a guilty pleasure, there are just so many things wrong with it but i still can't stop liking it.
p.s anyone know how to get the dos box working on full screen and on a disk drive game as all my attempts have failed :-(
* IF game makers are reading this i demand you make an aquanox 3 but with a flight sim in mind not bloody FPS and if you don't i will personally go round your house and tie your legs round you neck- Love Lord Me- please don't prosecute me.