Awesome game once you get used to the controls.
User Rating: 8.6 | Trespasser (1998) PC
This game has a lot of potential but also some bugs. Some of them are worked out with the full patch. If you liked The Lost World movie, you should like the atmosphere of the game. It really bridges the gap and makes you feel like you are there at the inGen sites. The textures and some of the terrain and settings are expansive and are really well done. One valley in particular really brought that point home. The inGen town was also incredible and searching for supplies was realistic. There are a lot of dilapidated buildings and vehicles. The sounds are good and the dramatic music plays when it should - another showing of it's movie roots. Now for the not so good. I hated this game when I first got it because of the controls. But because I'm stubborn and did not like wasting money, after 2 days, I got used to them and could not stop playing. You can actually bend the characters wrist and rotate her arm. Which, like I said is useful once it becomes second nature. This means you actually have to use aiming sights on the guns to aim them (no cross hairs here - not real). If you are more of a run-n-gun'er then, you might not like it. I prefer the realism although this game is actually harder than real-life. The reasons being because you have no left arm that can be use, can only carry 2 things at a time, cannot carry clips, and must discard your weapons when empty. The character also runs slower than I would expect in real life. Another realism factor is the absence of a heads up display. The only "meter" is a heart tattoo on the characters chest for health. For ammo the characters voice will tell you how many bullets the gun "feels" like it has..."about 3", "about half", "almost gone", etc. As far as difficulty, I would give it extra artificial difficulty because of the controls but it was not as bad in my opinion as Tomb Raider(that game drove me batty with all of the jumping "must get just right" moves). The stacking boxes puzzles do get old. It was hard the first time I played though and took me about 3 days to finish after getting used to the controls. I did play it again 3 years later and the controls came right back to me and I finished it in one day while at work;) I was still amazed by the graphics and level design. For more info check out Trescom.org
