I was quite fond of Garrett's Revenge, but this one is a step back in almost every way. The writing's worse, the design's worse, it far overstays its welcome. Starting where you left in Garrett's Revenge was... pretty much the high point of the FM, after which it all spirals into an ugly mess of a closed-off minimal city part, then a grossly ove...

Or, in layman's terms, WTF did I just play.

I don't know whether I'm frustrated or relieved that I couldn't finish the mission due to either NewDark or original design (I'm left with two non-working doors, both of which seem to be needed to progress, and no key or lockpick can open them)... On the other hand I don't know whether I'm amazed or...

Coming from the Bear Pits, the improvements are showing, although the backtracking gets a little tedious. The opening has a nice little trick up its sleeve, after which you're left with a bog standard early FM, boxy rooms and hallways that fortunately don't become confusing, a small map that won't take very long to complete, and enough gear to f...

AngelLoader required me to rename the .mis to a standard miss25.mis, otherwise a nice two-minute trip reminiscent of Constantine's. Rope Arrow your way to the top of the cupboard. No objectives, just check it out and be done with it.

While the mission feels unfinished, it has some neat ideas and a pretty good, albeit basic, story. I don't know if NewDark played tricks or me or if those are original bugs (or even if the instructions were just too obtuse), but the final stretch had me scratch my head with one objective in Expert seemingly not working, but not hampering complet...