Anybody who rates this game poorly clearly doesn't really understand: the history of modern computing....
At the time this game was created (apparently 1990), this was about as good as it gets. Back then, we didn't have dual-core 3GHz+ machines, with audio and (particularly) graphics processing that rivals a decent CPU's raw-processing capabilities, and we didn't need such power anyway. We had machines that were lucky to have 40MHz CPU's, or a VESA SVGA video adapter - the VESA SVGA standard was only formed in 1990. Nor did we have compact disc storage that can store over 4.5 Gigabytes of data - we had floppy's that were lucky to store 1.4 megabytes of data. Besides that even if we could have had 4.5GB discs, it would have taken a many good hours or days or weeks to simply transfer the data off the disc and then around the computer to do our bidding. We didn't even have consumer HDD's of that size! 1992 saw the first Sound Blaster audio card... etc, etc... enough said.
This game was so good, I was getting loads of enjoyment from it when I bought it in 1997 for $5 from a friend, even though by that stage the game was quite out-of-date. But this was an original game. No other game at the time of it's creation had such an epic gameplay. A game doesn't need great sound and graphics if the gameplay is enjoyable. And this game, for it's time, was enjoyable. Each game could easily take many hours, and 1 or 4 games simply wasn't enough. The size of the levels was quite large in it's era, and the scope of history it passes through as you progress through the game, is equally epic. There were heaps of options for what you could do in this game. On a minor note, I loved the fact that I could change the game's creation story after discovering the story was written in a plain text file.
2D rubbish? I don't think so.