I don't like this game. The only good thing is the graphics (which are excellent for the time), but gameplay suffers from serious drawbacks. The four most glaring ones are:
-lots of annoying jumping "puzzles" (a clear sign of lack of designer imagination)
-stupidity and blandness of enemies (ok, some of the bosses are cool, but the "many different enemies" are along the lines of guy with knife, guy with bone club, guy with spear, guy with pistol, guy with shotgun... and others are just too mudane - big bugs, dinosaurs - nothing original. Sometimes they are so stupid that they don't react to you unless you come very close, even if you're in plain sight. Their tactics? Charge head on or stand and shoot - no dodging, strafing, taking cover etc.)
-lack of storyline and repetitiveness of levels (they all look and playquite similar; it just gets boring after a while)
-the "map" function is useless - you only get maps for very few areas, otherwise you just get an arrow pointing to the north - the "map"
I would add lack of save option but i guess since it's a N64 remake that's forgivable.
I only rank it a 2. There are better FPS games out there (especially Blood, which was released the same year).
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