it'd be way too harsh for me to complain that this still outdoes every other third person shooter bc it had such an insane unsustainable dev cycle but god I still want to! even disregarding the ridiculous amount of ideas that went into every level of this thing, it's still proof of how far a good combat loop will get you

in fact there's so much good game design wisdom here, the games it inspired almost universally took steps to make the core gameplay more frictionless and less restrictive and ended up way less engaging and satisfying for it, I wouldn't change these controls for the world and if the remake does I'll be thoroughly disappointed

final point - thanks to said controls this game is fucking SCARY with headphones on and the volume up and I will stand by that forever, the sound design is neither subtle nor complex but it works so well to instill panic in players like me who don't like having shit behind them