City Raider
To describe the game it feels like a mix of Tomb Raider, Saboteur, Fighting Forces and GTA but in reverse
The Good stuff that keep me playing
➤Fun sandbox where you free roam and tackle objectives in different ways back in the day I would call it open world but it closer to a sandbox
➤ My comparison to the above mentioned games comes from how you complete objectives for e.g you need to arrest a thug but the gate is closed ,so you explore around the block to find a fire escape where you can jump to the next building and then jump in to the courtyard where the thug is, instead to climbing ancient ruins you climb skyscrapers and instead of being a criminal you are being lawful
➤The game looks dated, never played it back in the day but i don't think it got any awards, but still the art direction is superb leaves trail behind you as you run or dance in the wind when you throw a grenade, low fog that interacts when you run the devs did their best best. Its always dark murky and dirty, selling the story of a crime ridden town really only Batman is missing.
➤ Fun hand to hand combat that feel clunky at times but in most cases it works you can kick use your fists and do a slide attack very useful for disarming and arresting. Also there are firearms, bats und knives at your disposal
➤ Fun exploration there are no activities but fun stuff to interact.
➤ Light stealth elements with C you can crawl and take out high priority thugs with guns or with bats Darcie will hit them on the head incapacitating them for an easier arrest, saving time, ammo and health.
➤ Lots of climbing in this game and running there are cars but the car controls suck, but lucky Darice has a loot of stamina making running a viable option.
The BAD
➤ The fist major and big flaw is there are no checkpoints, as the game progresses after you finish an objective a new one will appear even and third and fourth one, dying or failing an objective means you have to restart the whole level. It also means you wont bother to explore the sandbox for funny or hidden events, if it means you have to repeat everything. GOG says it took me 13h59m to finish the game there were a lot of level restarts
➤Loosing and dying feels cheep you see three thugs and think "i can take them🤔" and a fourth one appears with a gun and kills you. Darcie once knocked down stays to long on the ground and enemies get free hits, even kill you, it happens mostly with enemies that carry a bat so most of the time i shoot them even enemies with guns were less of danger and easier to disarm.
➤ There is never ammo or a health pick up when you need it, you get a lot of them when the health bar is full, ammo for an ak47 but no gun.
➤No fun unlocks or costumes sadly.
You should give this game a try its fun and price is fair on GOG its says player average is around two hours but give it a chance even skip most of the tutorial because it sucks but check the manual some things aren't explained in the game.
Also my fix for 60 fps fix
In Steam forums or the pc gaming wiki it says to open the .cfg and change the max_fps value from 30 to 60 that never worked for me. I had to put it on 100fps and lock the framerate at 60 with Rivatuner, I noticed the game runs quite fast so i still locked it at 50fps. Also i used DGvoodoo2 to upscale it to 4k.
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