The main villain is pretty cool and the cutscenes are very well-made. Too bad that the story is not that engaging, and feels pretty dumb.
The gameplay is mindless but fun enough, more or less up until the point where you just replay the same exact levels with minor alterations for the 3rd time. Yes, you read that right - the campaign is essentially just 3 levels repeated 3 times. There is also a survival mode, where you have to protect yourself from waves of enemies, but it's pretty boring. I only played one level so take that with a grain of salt, but from what I noticed, you can pretty much just cheese the game by keeping one enemy alive, which will prevent another ones from spawning - you won't get any points added to your score for that, but it still gives the impression that the mode wasn't really thought out all that well. No timers, no wave counts - just a map with some weapons laying around and enemies spawning from time to time.
The best things about the original (at least to me) were the atmosphere and Barry. Barry is in 2 scenes, during which he's asleep, so that's pretty much gone. The atmosphere is there but it feels off. It's like they tried to stay as similair to the original as possible, while also trying to make it a bit more of a horror/slasher than a thriller. And so there are spiders now, there are some hot women, but generally it just feels too strange to be entertaining, and doesn't fit well with the original's premise.
If you REALLY liked the combat system of the original for some reason, you can give it a shot. Personally I was looking for something short to play through on halloween, and while it wasn't the worst choice in the world, I probably should've picked something else.
The gameplay is mindless but fun enough, more or less up until the point where you just replay the same exact levels with minor alterations for the 3rd time. Yes, you read that right - the campaign is essentially just 3 levels repeated 3 times. There is also a survival mode, where you have to protect yourself from waves of enemies, but it's pretty boring. I only played one level so take that with a grain of salt, but from what I noticed, you can pretty much just cheese the game by keeping one enemy alive, which will prevent another ones from spawning - you won't get any points added to your score for that, but it still gives the impression that the mode wasn't really thought out all that well. No timers, no wave counts - just a map with some weapons laying around and enemies spawning from time to time.
The best things about the original (at least to me) were the atmosphere and Barry. Barry is in 2 scenes, during which he's asleep, so that's pretty much gone. The atmosphere is there but it feels off. It's like they tried to stay as similair to the original as possible, while also trying to make it a bit more of a horror/slasher than a thriller. And so there are spiders now, there are some hot women, but generally it just feels too strange to be entertaining, and doesn't fit well with the original's premise.
If you REALLY liked the combat system of the original for some reason, you can give it a shot. Personally I was looking for something short to play through on halloween, and while it wasn't the worst choice in the world, I probably should've picked something else.