Story:
Theres really not much of
a story, but what story there is pretty bland. The good thing is that
there is not effect on the game beacuse of this, anyway......You {Larua -
from "D"} wake up from hyper sleep and have no idea of whats going on.
Well it just happens that invisible aliens have gotten on board your ship.
You don't realize this until you get a call from Parker on the video
phone, so basicly you see Parker get his head eaten off (cool, ehh?). The
worst part is you have to track down the aliens by means of
sound.
{now on to the game}
The game has four CD's and are labled 0-3. Disk 0 has the intro
movie, and training mode on it. I highly suggest you complete the training
mode before you stat the game. There are 3 difficulty settings Hard,
Normal, and Beginer. You save your game by the means of a voice recorder,
which is found in the first room. You don't start out with a gun you have
to find one. A couple of things you should know - look around your to find
useful stuff and check your video phone often.
Graphics:8/10
Moving around in rooms and
some other places is all FMV, but when walkind in corridors its polys. The
whole entire game is windowed, not that this is a bad thing i just don't
see why it could be letterboxed. I've seen what TruMotion can do and it
can do better than what it does in this game {the window is the same size
as it was in "D"}. Yes, the game moves extremly smooth and there is no
blockiness to the video, but i've seen GunGriffons video and its really
good {and letterboxed), so I see no reason why EZ shouldn't be like that.
The corridors move along at 60fps {this is expected because its in the
windowed format too), but is low res. None the less, being windowed
dosen't really bother me and dosen't hurt the game any i just wish i could
have been better.
Control:9/10
The reason control isn't
getting a 10 is beacuse it takes awhile for the Saturn to realize you
pressed a button, while this only happens in the FMV part it gets really
annoying. As for the control in the corridors I have no complaints because
its perfect. You can strafe, run, look up, look down, look right &
left, some other things as well (now only if was this way in the FMV?!?).
Also, you can use the 3dPAD which acts about the same as the digital.
Sound:10/10
The sound in this game is
awesome, i mean it has to be good beacuse if it wasn't you'd never be able
to kill the monsters. I mean when you here the beeps of the alien getting
closer you start to get nervous and your palms start to sweat (talk about
tension). All the other sounds in the game are dead on and couldn't have
been better.
Overall:8.5/10
If you lived "D" or any other
FMV game (like me!!!) do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of EZ.