The best platformer ever. Period

User Rating: 10 | Abuse PC
By Mjoyner | Review Date:
Information about Crack Dot Com and Abuse's backstory can be read elsewhere. This is just a statement about how awesome this game is. You can call it a review if you want, but its going to put the game in such a positive light, you might as well just call it a public service announcement. Despite popular belief, PCs have always been on par with console in terms platform (Mario-style) games. When "the greatest platormers ever" are discussed, PC gamers always tend to throw out Jazz Jackrabbit. Jazz Jackrabbit was a solid game, as well as Alien Carnage, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Iron Blood and Bio Menace. But as great as these games were, they were pretty much PC versions of Mario, Kirby, or Sonic disguised in their own simple twists. Yes, Jazz Jackrabbit may have been more fun then Sonic, but couldn't he be controlled by a gamepad just like the blue hedgehog? It's just like Quake 4. Of course, Quake 4 is a "better" game then Doom on most levels, but who started the revolution of FPS gameplay? (Yes Wolfenstein came out before Doom, but thats not the point...) Crack Dot Com saw the same component to PC gaming Id Software saw in "Doom" that proved that no matter how graphically advanced the consoles got, the PC was still superior: the mouse. Even Contra: Alien Wars can't match the excitement of Abuse and its mouse controls. Screeching infected prisoners storm at you from every corner, and with the mouse you have to react to it accordingly or you will suffer the consequences. Abuse EXPLOITS the mouse, as if its shoving the fact that the mouse rules in the face of all console platforms the whole time. Every where from shooting to running to flying, the mouse turns this game into a masterpiece. Not to mention, the game adds in brilliant times of strategy at key points. There are times when you need to shoot everything in site in order to survive, and there are times when you need to conserve your trigger happy self and watch the patterns of the enemies' cannons in order to save some critical health points.

If you didn't get the hint from the infected prisoner part of the review, this game, while now outmatched by Half Life and FEAR, is quite possibly one of the most intensifying/scary games I've ever played. It's the only game to scare me on the sound level. This game should be in every "Best games ever" list. Enough talk, experience the magic for yourself: http://www.rocket-surgery.net/abuse/downloads.html

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    This is the only time Abuse is fun

    By abbismonster | Review Date: Dec 22, 2005 | PC

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  • Rating:7.4

    An engaging side-scroller with plenty of tense moments.

    By mikromouse | Review Date: Dec 22, 2004 | PC

    Abuse came out a while ago, I know. If you see it in the bargain bin of your local store, do yourself a favor and pick it up. Abuse was one of the finest games from the now defunct Crack dot Com. In it, you played a... Read Full Review

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