Rune was another bargain bin purchase for me. The game follows a Viking warrior on a quest to destroy the god of (tricks, pain or death?) Loki and it takes him 15 plus levels of easy warriors, weird plants and cool locales. Yeah..just about the only thing thats cool is the locales even though the Unreal Tournament engine starts to strain after a while. The UT engine was really only designed to render indoor environments or worlds constrained in a cube. It sort of bogs down when trying to render things like the elements, or flashy textures. The game is fairly repetitive and even the addition of a multiplayer component (released later on a separate disc) did nothing for me. 4 player melee combat has never beens something that I've been interested in, but I did give it a shot. It sucks. Luckily there are cheat codes and that made some aspects more interesting, but I'd say pass on this grass.
Coming on the heels of the Half Life's, SIN's, Quake's and Unreal's of the game world, this choice morsel was quickly dismissed in favor of bigger guns, badder explosions, alien invasions, yada yada yada. And that is tr... Read Full Review
All the reviews you've probably read about this game (if you've read any) will say it is simple and repetitive. Ask yourself, how many of those critics have played the game for over eight years? Well, I have, and I am re... Read Full Review
