John Romero's Daikatana

Unsuccessful Quake 2 remake

User Rating: 3.5 | John Romero's Daikatana PC

By L0UD | Review Date: April 20, 2008

This ought to be one of the worst 1st person shooters around. This game is very similar to Quake 2 in what it tried to achieve. The difference is Quake 2 succeeded in its concept.
The graphics are alike (and that´s about the only thing that these two games have in common), although Daikatana looks a bit worse and considering that it got released about 2 years after Quake 2 that can´t be good. All in all a poor game, with very badly rendered mobs and silly types of mobs these are, like for example the first you´ll encounter in this game are big dragonfly look alike. Scared yet? At some stages you wonder more about where do go or what to do next than shooting things, and this was supposed to be a shooter after all.
Instead of paying for this game you should get payed for playing it.

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• Rating:2.5

  4 years in development can't even get this game a 4 out of 10. The first review of a game that came out 5 years ago.

  By leafsfreak | Review Date: Aug 17, 2005 | PC

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  A classic example of an ambitious idea executed poorly.

  By EyeNixon | Review Date: Mar 21, 2006 | PC

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