Intelligence reports indicate that a man calling himself Dr. Mangle is responsible for the mutants and the destruction of Metro. You will have to battle your way through levels packed with evil mutants and robotic guards to finally infiltrate Mangle's fortress and defeat him. You think to yourself that this will be the most dangerous mission of your life. Snake Logan is a weapons expert, and uses several throughout the game, including a high-powered machine gun and grenades.
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My mom banned me from playing this game when I found it at Grandma's house (left by a random cousin no doubt, Grandma only played Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and Super Scattergories) because the girl you rescue in level 3 has pixel nipples poking through her tank top. Replaying it as an adult, I'm kind of baffled that the mincemeat gore and ejected eyeballs weren't the issue. Conservative Christian Childrearing!
Holds up better than I thought though! The harder difficulties aren't really balanced, so I'd consider "Easy" to be the best way to play as it's plenty challenging. After playing Episode 2 and Episode 3 for the first time, I'm not sure if they were worth the 20+ year wait, but they're certainly better than a lot of their DOS contemporaries. Apogee was to DOS what Rare was to the N64!
Holds up better than I thought though! The harder difficulties aren't really balanced, so I'd consider "Easy" to be the best way to play as it's plenty challenging. After playing Episode 2 and Episode 3 for the first time, I'm not sure if they were worth the 20+ year wait, but they're certainly better than a lot of their DOS contemporaries. Apogee was to DOS what Rare was to the N64!
Man...one of my childhood games right here. At least 1/3 of it since I played the shareware version which was only Episode 1.
Enter Snake Logan, a bearded fellow sporting a pretty basic moveset, he can jump a solid distance, crouch, climb ladders, throw grenades, plant proximity mines and only fire horizontally, but his strength and diversity comes with the hidden powerups you collect, which ups his range and damage. No power up is permanent and if you run out you're stuck with sub-par range and small burst shot with low damage so conservation is key, but also very hard to do since logan is such a huge target with low mobility. This is generally more of an issue amongst a few other thing with part 2 and 3.
There are 3 alternatives for difficulty offering very conveniently easy, normal and hard. The differences mainly being your life-gauge being more minimised the harder mode you pick.
Normal mode halfs you life gauge leaving you with 5 hitpoints, while hard mode gives you 3. Which you seldomly can refill. Whatever you pick you can't change it back once you've made your commitment.
After a rather pleasant voyage through episode 1, the two latter leaves you with a lots of trial and error segments with a good share of falling platforms, hazards, countless pitfalls alongside offscreen projectile enemies you constantly need to expect. You can save for every level and reset stages whenever you want, the flipside to this is that your precious 1-ups permanently runs out. If you hit game over, you won't restock.
I had a rougher time with part 2 due to the more open and mazelike level design, part 3 had mostly linear stages, but were also brutal due to Logan being such a big target against offscreen enemies and some rough bosses. The variety in aestetics and level themes are really good in all of the 3 parts and keeps the game from being visually dull.
I can more easily recommend part 1 as it just right in length and has the most well designed stages. While the two latter parts will really test your merit and patience.
Enter Snake Logan, a bearded fellow sporting a pretty basic moveset, he can jump a solid distance, crouch, climb ladders, throw grenades, plant proximity mines and only fire horizontally, but his strength and diversity comes with the hidden powerups you collect, which ups his range and damage. No power up is permanent and if you run out you're stuck with sub-par range and small burst shot with low damage so conservation is key, but also very hard to do since logan is such a huge target with low mobility. This is generally more of an issue amongst a few other thing with part 2 and 3.
There are 3 alternatives for difficulty offering very conveniently easy, normal and hard. The differences mainly being your life-gauge being more minimised the harder mode you pick.
Normal mode halfs you life gauge leaving you with 5 hitpoints, while hard mode gives you 3. Which you seldomly can refill. Whatever you pick you can't change it back once you've made your commitment.
After a rather pleasant voyage through episode 1, the two latter leaves you with a lots of trial and error segments with a good share of falling platforms, hazards, countless pitfalls alongside offscreen projectile enemies you constantly need to expect. You can save for every level and reset stages whenever you want, the flipside to this is that your precious 1-ups permanently runs out. If you hit game over, you won't restock.
I had a rougher time with part 2 due to the more open and mazelike level design, part 3 had mostly linear stages, but were also brutal due to Logan being such a big target against offscreen enemies and some rough bosses. The variety in aestetics and level themes are really good in all of the 3 parts and keeps the game from being visually dull.
I can more easily recommend part 1 as it just right in length and has the most well designed stages. While the two latter parts will really test your merit and patience.
Somewhat fun if you enjoy old dos platformers.
Play Episode 1 on Normal, Episode 2 on Easy, and avoid Episode 3 altogether unless you are a masochist.
Episode 2 starts of alright but half way through you have levels where you get killed because of cheap enemy placement or spikes. So unless you want to redo levels, you can enjoy a full health bar and a better basic gun on easy mode. I actually beat it on normal, but found it to be more of a chore towards the latter stages and especially the final boss.
Episode 3 is totally unfair. The first level starts off with mines that can barely be seen and just trolls you with these super fast enemies who blow themselves up and misleads you to your death without any warning. It's just annoying.
Play Episode 1 on Normal, Episode 2 on Easy, and avoid Episode 3 altogether unless you are a masochist.
Episode 2 starts of alright but half way through you have levels where you get killed because of cheap enemy placement or spikes. So unless you want to redo levels, you can enjoy a full health bar and a better basic gun on easy mode. I actually beat it on normal, but found it to be more of a chore towards the latter stages and especially the final boss.
Episode 3 is totally unfair. The first level starts off with mines that can barely be seen and just trolls you with these super fast enemies who blow themselves up and misleads you to your death without any warning. It's just annoying.