At 5/8/08 11:33 AM, Sense-Offender wrote: Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Wasn't it called Duke Nukem 3D? I loved it.
The one I'm talking about is called Zero Hour. It was in third person. I can see where the confusion comes from though because I think 3D was on 64 as well so that's my bad.
And being sucked into the spaceship at the beginning was freaking awesome. But the gameplay was merely okay.
I can agree with pretty much everything you said, the abduction scene was epic. Getting sucked up into a alien ship while Don't Fear the Reaper is playing ... was just awesome. And then you watch helplessly as your grandfather gets killed, which was pretty powerful if you're willing to put yourself in the characters shoes.
Unfortunately the rest of the game didn't live up to the opening scene, it just had that kind of Quake 4 syndrome to it where it kind of felt like you were a robot. It was too stiff and repetitive and while I did enjoy the vertigo inducing sequences and odd organic alien weapons I couldn't get over how outdated and robotic it felt. It wasn't horrible and I applaud them for their unique ideas but it just felt unfinished for me.
Also, it had a jukebox that played Barracuda by Heart and Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent. I thought that was kickass.
Yeah I thought that was a nice touch too. I sat there for a couple minutes just playing with the jukebox before you get into that laughable wrench fight with the guys that are bugging your girlfriend.
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