I wish someone had told ME! (Daikatana (PC))

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Product:	Daikatana (PC)
Date:	23/12/00 (3 review reads)
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Advantages: the box art is nice

Disadvantages: Graphics, Sound, Weapons, AI, Level Design, Lighting, Characters, Story, Price, Wait, and John Romero

I'd been waiting like everyone else - not holding my breath... then one day Daikatana is released with little fanfare. I didn't see any parades or billboard advertising - it just appeared on the shelf at Best Buy one day - kinda slipped in there next to the latest Tomb Raider. I just went ahead and bought it... I just bought it - unbelievably stupid move on my part. I hadn't played the demo (too large to download for me at 56k) and I hadn't really read anything about it... I was just tired of the games I already had and wanted something new. New??

Another reviewer said that "time travel would've helped this game" - true... this game should've come out in '97 or maybe '98. There's no question that this is the consensus on the subject. The graphics are a step backward from Quake 2 it seems. Ugly textures, ugly characters, boring level design and ill conceived lighting placement. The AI is more like AS (artificial stupidity). There are characters that are supposed to follow you around and help you fight off the bad guys, but they get in your way more often than not or else get stuck in a door and die. I've never played a game that was so frustrating. It was just poorly put together. It looked to me like the work of a high-school student who had an assignment given to him at the beginning of the school year, but didn't work on it until the day before the due date. I think John Romero was spending his time buying motorcycles, picking up hookers and lighting farts instead of designing video games. I think he's lost interest in video games... now that he's got money - I'm sure he's more interested in girls or whatever (not that that's such a bad thing).

I can't really begin to do justice to how poor this game is. It's really quite amateur... Perhaps had it come out a few years ago, it might have had more of a luke warm reception, but as it stands - coming out now and not liv
ing up to any kind of potential - it gets a 23% from me. I don't think that hype can make a game good. John Romero pulled off the greatest scam in PC game history... The effort that went into making this game could power the LED light in a casio watch for 4 seconds. I feel cheated and I wish I could get my money back. I actually wrote several people from the publisher to the developer to John himself demanding my money back for the game. I believe I have a good case - false advertising.

Don't fall for the hype and don't purchase this game. Avoid at all costs.

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