![]() You select certain settings to be used in the game such as installation type, sound card, and movie size. No Remorse requires a VESA-compatible card, and this should be obvious if you try to run the installation program without one. ![]() So you have to prove your worth by completing a series of missions in order to thwart the WEC’s ultimate objective. Those working for the Resistance are hostile toward you, considering that you were responsible for the deaths of several of their own. That all changed when your fellow team members were killed by one of WEC's mech patrol while navigating one of the consortium's tunnels, and for this reason, you decide to jump ship and work against the WEC for once. In No Remorse, you play the role of a Silencer, an employee for the World Economic Consortium, sent to hunt down the Resistance, a group working to expose the corruption of the WEC. In the mid-Nineties, they produced some really good action titles, such as System Shock, Cybermage, and Crusader: No Remorse. While Crusader has been long dormant, it's important to remember that it was another small but important step for PC gaming, even if they're now relegated to being hastily compiled freebies on Origin.I never was a fan of Origin’s games, not only because they were RPG-centric, with the company churning out Ultima this and Wing Commander that. If there's one thing that did strike me as I was playing: it looks very much like the original Fallout, so it makes sense that it has been cited as an influence. I want to say that I love it for all this, but the outdated controls are just too much. Even little spider mines that scuttle up to your enemies to cause more carnage. Shooting at anything is likely to make it explode: robots, machines, computers, barrels, you name it and it'll probably explode. Speaking of blowing things up, that is perhaps the most fun you can have with this game. It blew my mind to discover decades later that it was the follow-up, essentially a level pack with some more story elements and improved graphics rather than an explosive, full-blown sequel. Weirdly, I always thought of Crusader: No Regret as the first game, because it was alphabetically first. And the music is very 1990s, tunes that get the blood pumping. ![]() It also had a massive sprawling level with many ways to achieve your objectives. It doesn't help that the Origin version doesn't seem to include an instruction manual, meaning I had to play it blind.Ĭontrols aside, it's still visually impressive for a game made in 1996, with SVGA graphics targeting the higher-end PCs of the day. Trying to play Crusader: No Regret today is like trying to fly a plane with no flight school experience - you know you should be doing something, but it's not clear what any of the buttons do, and panic sets in. Time has not been kind to this isometric sci-fi shooter series. I suspect it's probably blood-lust and a crippling lack of control. Yet the Silencer was such a distinctive character in my mind, his bright red space armour glimmering as I stared at the box for both games. Despite being two of Origin System's most impressive action games, they completely passed me by. I was never allowed to play Crusader: No Regret or indeed its predecessor Crusader: No Remorse when I was a lad. ![]() One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.
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