There are probably only a few hundred folks (if even) in the US who have bothered importing the UK version of this game to play it. Personally, I had low-to-no hopes for it at the outset. Though the graphics were pretty slick, and the game ran like a champ—never stuttered, smooth as glass--the guns were sub-par, the sound has panning left-to-right issues (it simply fades out at times), and the game is WAY TOO TALKY!! Gab, gab, gab…all the blabbing during cutscenes does help to flesh out the storyline, but the characters are not quite interesting enough to have to listen to them talk AT each other for so long. Some of the lead voice acting is fine—some of the supporting voice acting is, errr, not so good. Having said that, I forced myself to continue playing it, and…well, I got hooked. The game seemed to pick up steam toward the end, the storyline became a bit more convoluted (in a good way) and the action got more and more tense. When the game switched from corridor crawls to driving a buggy on the surface of the asteroid, it actually became really good fun, dare I say at the same level as some of the outside HL2 scenes—not as much action, but a good sense of taking a dangerous journey in a strange, deserted landscape all alone. But I’m one of those strange people who like playing these somewhat underdog, underdeveloped, Euro-games that no one is paying attention to. (Anyone ever hear of Kreed, like an eon ago?) What can I say….I liked Pariah, after all. Definitely on my “I’m glad I stuck with it and played it through to the end” list. But move over, I've got Bioshock to play now....
Alpha Prime is a surprisingly well done sci-fi FPS package. Too bad that most of the US gamers have never heard of it. A good part of the problem is a 6-month delay between Euro release and the US release dates (11/17/07... Read Full Review
I fired-up this game having no expectations. Even less, I expected it would suck! I was nicely surprised though when I realised that not only does the game not suck nearly as bad as the vast majority of FPS coming out la... Read Full Review
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