Hidden & Dangerous 2
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Video Game Reviews of Hidden & Dangerous 2
Customer Review: This game is a technical disaster
Summary: 1 Stars
I've got a brand new Nvidia 5200 128 MB graphics card, and just got back into computer gaming, so I was eager to try this game because it's a genre I love. Plus, my PC played COD and Battlefield 1942 so there shouldn't have been technical problems to play it. Boy was I wrong to think that. This game is a technical disaster. I ran it on a P4 with 256 MB RAM and it still crashed on me three times, something that never happened even once with other games at all.
After it crashed for the third time BEFORE I even got to start the first mission, I gave up.
The developers really dropped the ball on this game. From its looks and screen shots I've seen, it looks like a great game. But if it's too unstable to play, nobody's going to notice it.
This game is an absolute disaster from a technical standpoint and the developers should be ashamed of themselves.
Customer Review: Great Game, but very frustrating
Summary: 3 Stars
I should announce before we start, that this is review of the single player (non-multiplayer) perspective part of Hidden & Dangerous 2.I recieved this game for Christmas and was excited about it.
All the cool commercials had me intrigued. I loved the concept, with the whole historical British SAS perspective of the war. The British Empire stretching across the globe, and the exotic locations and potentials seemed exciting!
My first impressions of the game were great.
The opening scenes were dramatic (but no more than others I've seen, but still impressive).
As cool as the little movies are between each mission, they are not needed for gameplay and slows down the overall game (therefore they should drop them).
On the technical side;
I have a 2.0Ghz computer, and on the box is states "2.0Ghz" or more. However, it runs VERY SLOW!!!! I guess this game is going to force me to buy a new comp. or upgrade my existing comp. just to play it!!!!!
Once I was deep into the N. Africian campaign (and MANY missions into the single player game) and not only did the game automatically turn off my computer (which would happen every 4 hours of game play), but it erased all my saved games.
After getting over my furious-like-rage (and all the time lost), I had to regretably start over.
None of the first person games I've ever played, has this many technical problems!
Medal of Honor is the best 1st person WWII game in my oppinion.
Ease of use, non-memory-hog and overall simplicity, make MOH a real blast! (I've played it through, front-to-back many many times.)
That is why I will be comparing Medal of Honor and Hidden & Dangerous 2.
H&D2's main menu and interface is terrible!! In MOH you go to "saved games" and view all the files you saved (sometimes 20 per mission, depending on how careful you are). In H&D2 you cannot do this, and it only states "Resume" (...the last time you saved your game.... in other words).
This needs MAJOR improvement.
Some have stated in the reviews, that "H&D2 sucks because picking up items and handling anything, requires many sub-menus to toggle through", which the previous reviewers hate. I totally agree, toggling through lots of inventory menus and such, is very difficult and bad design (all while your hearing bullets whistling by your ear!!)!
There are too many commands also. This makes the game too complicated as well. Trying to find the right command requires memorization. I even typed up a paper with all the commands to help me. This game needs serious simplification!
With all this said, I genuinely like the game. I love the British perspective too.
The sound effects are sharp and very realistic (you can actually hear the empty shell casings hitting the ground after you've fired your weapon).
The backgrounds are beautiful too. In many missions the evening skys are breathtaking and very realistic!!. In one mission, I travelled to a N. Africian oasis, and the buildings had great textures on the walls.Some of the buildings in the N. Africian campaign have mosiacs on the walls!
I love choosing your weapon and equipment before the missions. I love having to think about the possibility you could run out of ammunition during a mission (something that would never happen in MOH).
Overall, I really like this game. It's too bad I have to upgrade my computer just to play this game more fluid (and smoothly).
It's also too bad that H&D2 is so complex, making gameplay suffer.
I also believe that like a good portion of the computer gaming world, I do not play multiplayer "online" games (and don't have the required DSL or Cable internet lines to support it). Therefore a high percentage of gamers lose out from the multiplayer focus of the game makers (of H&D2). (Which is another reason why this game falls way short.)
I am hoping I'll be able to finish the game before I lose my passion for it (due to all it's short-comings).
Customer Review: Too much work to be fun...
Summary: 3 Stars
The designers really missed the fact that some things just have to be done automatically in order to have any fun. Everything that you would do naturally (take items from backpack, open/shut doors) take multiple steps to accomplish. Using stuff in the backpack (like ammo or health or gernades) requires removing from backpack, putting it in a pocket (you'll have to throw something down if your pouches are full) then using, then, picking the thing up you had to remove. Try doing this in the middle of a battle! This game is for people who like to be painfully aware of every last detail to accomplish something. Because of this, it completely misses the mark big time of a Metal of Honor (not subpacks because those suck!) or Call of Duty which were extremely fun!
I gave it only a 3 stars because its just tedious- the guns don't sound good, the enemies are stupid (thank god!), the maps aren't all that fun. Save your money and wait for Half-Life 2 or Doom 3.
Customer Review: Another new game, another new crash...
Summary: 1 Stars
Just another game were the first experience is a blue screen crash on my Win98 system. This is even after installing the newest drivers for the Ti4200 (dec 2003 driver) and DirectX9. This system runs MOH and COD without incedent I might add. I really wish they would first do a system check and at least give a hint of what would cause a problem. Whelp, off to the hunt.Customer Review: Way too many commands
Summary: 2 Stars
Seriously, does there have to be a command for everything. I mean you have to have a list of comands sitting right beside your keyboard if you are to have any success, and to make things worse the default commands go against the standard configuration of every shooter that has ever existed. If you to have any success it is required that you map it out yourself. Something as simple as picking up a dropped gun requires the use of space bar, one, and then i for inventory, and while being shot at, you slowly steal the ammo from the dead guy. I'd hate to say it, but this game is shelved, and $30 is wasted.