Have not played it... but heard a LOT of bad things about it, hence I have never felt inclined to go out and buy it. A think a lot of folks here will tell you it is not worth it... and I find that if a game's production values are so poor I get so annoyed I would only be wasting my time if I attempted to put up with them.
What made TM so good was they used FMV but they pulled it off well. I guess thanks to that experience, lesser titles are just so tame in comparison.
-Cub. =o)
What made TM so good was they used FMV but they pulled it off well. I guess thanks to that experience, lesser titles are just so tame in comparison.
-Cub. =o)
No, unfortunately, the game doesn't get any better.
Lacking any new Tex material for years, I was pretty excited about this new "Tex-a-like"-game, but while playing I got really disappointed.
It is not really a totally bad game, but it can't compare in any way to the "Original".
I could live with the mediocre acting, but all the other things in the game bothered me.
As you already pointed out, some puzzles are just ridiculous and illogical and can only be "solved" by the method of "Try and Error", furthermore some objects are hidden at very unlikely places and are almost impossible to find - Pixelhunting in 3D!!! (I know, that in Tex's games some objects were also hidden very well, but in a clever way at places where you could expect them in a real scenario - like the access card under the desk.)
Parts of the story are totally absurd and especially at the end you'll notice logic holes as wide as Texas.
I won't comment any more on this.
Last but not least: the technical aspect of the game is also lacking: The graphic quality of the 3D engine is at best comparable to the one of Overseer (although Overseer is years older), but it runs way slower and needs a much more powerful system (although this point doesn't matter nowadays anymore). For unknown reasons they used MPEG-1-Video for the FMV parts, which produces grainy quality with large file sizes and was already obsolete at the time of game release.
In some rooms the game crashed a lot and while I was walking around my character was being constantly magically transported do different areas of the room thus making navigation almost impossible.
The strange and buggy save game system also bothered me a lot: You can only save by pressing a special key (which is only mentioned in the manual) and are unable to manually delete old savegames. On the other hand if you accidently clicked on the button for another player, you could delete your whole saves if you are unlucky.
Still, if you alreay bought the game, I would play it through one time, maybe using a walkthrough if you get stuck since some of the puzzles are not worth trying them out yourself.
Lacking any new Tex material for years, I was pretty excited about this new "Tex-a-like"-game, but while playing I got really disappointed.
It is not really a totally bad game, but it can't compare in any way to the "Original".
I could live with the mediocre acting, but all the other things in the game bothered me.
As you already pointed out, some puzzles are just ridiculous and illogical and can only be "solved" by the method of "Try and Error", furthermore some objects are hidden at very unlikely places and are almost impossible to find - Pixelhunting in 3D!!! (I know, that in Tex's games some objects were also hidden very well, but in a clever way at places where you could expect them in a real scenario - like the access card under the desk.)
Parts of the story are totally absurd and especially at the end you'll notice logic holes as wide as Texas.
I won't comment any more on this.Last but not least: the technical aspect of the game is also lacking: The graphic quality of the 3D engine is at best comparable to the one of Overseer (although Overseer is years older), but it runs way slower and needs a much more powerful system (although this point doesn't matter nowadays anymore). For unknown reasons they used MPEG-1-Video for the FMV parts, which produces grainy quality with large file sizes and was already obsolete at the time of game release.
In some rooms the game crashed a lot and while I was walking around my character was being constantly magically transported do different areas of the room thus making navigation almost impossible.
The strange and buggy save game system also bothered me a lot: You can only save by pressing a special key (which is only mentioned in the manual) and are unable to manually delete old savegames. On the other hand if you accidently clicked on the button for another player, you could delete your whole saves if you are unlucky.
Still, if you alreay bought the game, I would play it through one time, maybe using a walkthrough if you get stuck since some of the puzzles are not worth trying them out yourself.