timtnz
2010
2006
A potentially good game ruined by clear lack of polishing, balancing, and good plot to follow. The quests are boring. The enemy behaviour is absolutely ridiculous, even a wolf can do attacks with milliseconds between them, and even with paladin armour, you can get killed easily. Want to kill a goblin? It will just dodge backwards, so you hit him once in five swings, while other goblins hit and stun you from behind. Did you upgrade and learn the most advanced fighting skill? Now the enemy will sometimes fall on the ground, be invincible and do a guaranteed far reaching attack when he will stand. Also, I was tired of liberating every single settlement, fighting through hordes of enemies, it just gets too repetitive and boring. And the very idea of choice to fight for Orcs and help them is ridiculous, the Nameless Hero, who dedicated himself to selflessly saving humans in previous games now would serve the Orcs that want to kill all humans? Why would anyone choose that? IMO, but this game is even worse than Arcania, at least that game works as it supposed to.
2021
2015
I still prefer HL1 to this, but this one is still okay. I didn't really like how they made level longer by adding unnecessary parts and thus makng the game lose its pace. The bugs are present, but are not that critical: I had issues with rendering in water in Xen, collision physics was messed up sometimes, the textures were not solid from time to time. The rebalancing of weapons was acceptable, but I still don't really like how they made human enemies too smart and tanky. Overall, I would say 6/10, probably a bit lower than the HL2 episodes.
The game is quite punishing, and the stages are quite difficult to play through without taking damage. I have beaten Nightmare in Dream Land first, so I had some experience, but the game was difficult anyway. The 3D edition that they made for 3DS was okay-ish. The 3D effects are not that good, but the remastered graphics and sounds look and sound acceptable.
2005
The game is not bad, but isn't the most fun of the similar games for GBA or any other platform. Battles are a getting boring and repetitive after a while, though the game is not long to beat. Heroes' abilities are not that fun and interesting, and Beast Boy is quite weak compared to others.
There are some bugs here and there, like when flying up against flying enemy hero, or when the final boss glitches into the wall, causing to restart the level from the beginning, but nothing too critical.
There are some bugs here and there, like when flying up against flying enemy hero, or when the final boss glitches into the wall, causing to restart the level from the beginning, but nothing too critical.
2016
1983
2001
2021
2021