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All in all the game basically caused the FPS genre to take a good hard look at itself and see what was wrong. before this came out story was secondary to "KILL SMASH MAIM DESTROY... in a fashion that made it fairly difficult." Then with the creation of this the Story became somthing everyone had to add to their game.
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It's a shame only Deus Ex has gotten it right though.
System shock 2 did horror the best though.
I think the biggest problem with FOT is the fact it's a turn based game built to be played as a real time one.
Did anyone really play that game in real time?
Oh yeah, I rememeber that fool.. I had to play that part twice just to figure out what happened.
One moment I'm walking around, and another something explodes in the distance. "
I almost got it a few weeks back (7$ new at EB) but all the negative things I've heard about it stayed my hand.
If I ever get a Hexbox I might pick it up.
It's definately worth playing.
There is the original (which is excellent) and a sequel (which is either really good or totally sucks depending on who you ask)
As for the type of game: It's a First Person Shooter/Role Playing Game hybrid.
I played the PS2 version... I can only imagine the PC version is better (given the controls)
So I say get the PC version if you can.
Check out the article when you have a spare ten minutes (it's only a couple of pages); Greg Costikyan posits a clear and cogent series of allegations against BIG BUSINESS and their attempts to "Hollywoodize" (my analogy) the games industry; also Part 2 gives a battle plan for us (all) to fix it. :D
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Wow That was a pretty good read
I'm not sure I like the idea of removing the retailer and going download only though.