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I've had some pretty hard luck here with my impressions on starwars games, first with KOTOR 1 which oddly didn't grab me, then the mindling Starwars Episode III game for PS2 which I stupidly paid fully price for. Now this. A good friend of mine loaned it out to me and he was totally into it so I had high expectations. It got very positive reviews, even the PC version like he loaned me.
I get it all installed and boot up and what happens? The load screen locks up, fine, it happens. Then when I actually get going I couldn't help but question my friend and pretty much all the reviews really. The weapons were really dull and packed very little punch. Everything that didn't have ammo, which is pretty much everything overheats in a snap and the enemy just spawns right before your eyes.
On top of that the game seemed to randomly lock up between levels and most of all I had extream graphical issues. The game isn't particularly great looking off the back with the sky textures unmoving and very dull and a full fledged wraparound texture making up some levels complete with a totally "bald spot" spot directly above you. That aside it ran great with it maxed but there were numerous texture problems. First things looked really washed out and the draw distance became horrid for some reason, even with it maxed. Then there were extream problem in space, all the planets and nebulas etc. appeared, then dissappeared only to come back as I changed angles. In the hangers I'd frequently get garbled video problems below the ships but moreover space was just downright frustrating. Maybe I'm just bad but the controls are unusable in piloting the spacecraft. I turned the sensitivity way up and I still could harly get around. It became extreamly disorienting and I got turned about very easily, making tracking fighers impossible.
I'll end my whining there but please tell me I've just got a screwed up computer/copy as I don't want to belive the game is there bad. I imagine the console versions control a lot better and don't have these issues as well. I was really looking foward to this game so I hope I just ran into some random bad luck with the whole game. And the only patch for it I could find was some massive 177Mb sever type thing that wouldn't ever be worth it on dial-up. Any insights here? Thanks.
I get it all installed and boot up and what happens? The load screen locks up, fine, it happens. Then when I actually get going I couldn't help but question my friend and pretty much all the reviews really. The weapons were really dull and packed very little punch. Everything that didn't have ammo, which is pretty much everything overheats in a snap and the enemy just spawns right before your eyes.
On top of that the game seemed to randomly lock up between levels and most of all I had extream graphical issues. The game isn't particularly great looking off the back with the sky textures unmoving and very dull and a full fledged wraparound texture making up some levels complete with a totally "bald spot" spot directly above you. That aside it ran great with it maxed but there were numerous texture problems. First things looked really washed out and the draw distance became horrid for some reason, even with it maxed. Then there were extream problem in space, all the planets and nebulas etc. appeared, then dissappeared only to come back as I changed angles. In the hangers I'd frequently get garbled video problems below the ships but moreover space was just downright frustrating. Maybe I'm just bad but the controls are unusable in piloting the spacecraft. I turned the sensitivity way up and I still could harly get around. It became extreamly disorienting and I got turned about very easily, making tracking fighers impossible.
I'll end my whining there but please tell me I've just got a screwed up computer/copy as I don't want to belive the game is there bad. I imagine the console versions control a lot better and don't have these issues as well. I was really looking foward to this game so I hope I just ran into some random bad luck with the whole game. And the only patch for it I could find was some massive 177Mb sever type thing that wouldn't ever be worth it on dial-up. Any insights here? Thanks.
