Hundreds of thousands of people are killed during the average 20p one-player game of arcade shoot 'em up , and nobody cares, but stab one SS guy in the throat from a 3D first-person perspective and we're all writing to our MPs.
Perhaps it's because the Quake viewpoint really does cast you as the main protagonist, rather than merely letting you sit back and operate a tank or plane by proxy.
Still, it doesn't make the action any more realistic - although you wouldn't think this was the case judging by Mortyr's advertising campaign, which has made much of the game's alleged life-or-death authentic grit It's utter bullshit of course - Mortyr is about as valid a representation of the earthy reality of armed combat as The Muppet Christmas Carol.
The game's poorly-translated manual relates a tale in which the Nazis develop a secret weapon, win the war, and rule the world for about years, until you - yes, you-are sent back in time to in order to bung a spanner in their works. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Cue lots of running around shooting and killing - and searching for key A in order to open door B. This is a no-brainer. Architecturally, Mortyr is reasonably impressive: plenty of looming gothic interiors, stained glass windows and extra 'show-off' effects such as reflective surfaces and fogging for those with appropriately muscular accelerator cards.
The much-vaunted Mortyrengine is capable of great things. Before long, though, the environment starts to feel terribly 'samey'. There's little to distinguish one level from the next. Furthermore, the character models and animations aren't much cop the guard dogs in particular are incredibly bad, looking like an animated sequence from Taxidermy The Movidj.
The sound effects don't help - some of the Nazis actually say "hello" when you walk in the room, while the supposedly 'amusing' comments uttered Duke Nukem-style by your character appear to consist mainly of flat statements of fact delivered by a Dutchman.
Furthermore, the levels have been designed to engage the eye rather than the 'engrossment glands' in your head - there are far too many cavernous spaces with little of interest to fill them up, save a fancy ceiling and some pretty coloured glass.
Enemy AI seems practically non-existent - foes simply run at you until you find yourself machine-gunning them in the eyes. Then there are the unforgivable clipping bugs - sometimes it's possible to pass through impenetrable surfaces and find yourself stuck fast in the dreaded 'glitch dimension'.
Finally, and worst of all, there's the indefinable overall 'feel' of the thing. It just doesn't seem right. It never sucks you in; you never forget you're merely playing a game. So, it's a load of old shit then? Well, no. Not completely. It's actually quite playable in a funny sort of way - provided, like us, you a haven't paid for it and b don't have anything better to do at the time. I also enjoyed some of the small details, such as the sound of your footsteps in the snow, the Nazi decorations propaganda, recruiting posters and so forth and the ricochet of bullets.
Regrettably, these environments are filled with comical, blocky looking Nazis; don't even get me started on the dogs. They move like rocking chairs. Then there is a bizarre fog effect that even occurs indoors.
What the heck is this, a simulation of cataracts? You'd think Sebastian Mortyr might have scrounged up some contacts. Mortyr's excellent levels are packed with graphical glitches.
Apparently Nazis are capable of falling through walls after they die -- quite often, I found a pair of legs protruding from a wall. Mortyr also has no soundtrack.
We're not talking about a soundtrack of any real quality; we are talking about zero, zilch, zip. Nothing but the game's various sound effects will come from your speakers. They might have at least tried. Control is fine, with the exception of targeting. In some sort of bizarre turn of logic, Mirage decided that because the weapon isn't centered on the screen, bullets should hit to the right of the crosshair, which is centered. Doesn't this defeat the purpose of the crosshair in the first place?
Thankfully, it is fixable within the game's console, but then you have to get used to a constantly moving crosshair. Even in Castle Wolfenstein we had a character that could hold the gun perfectly still for pity's sake. In a somewhat controversial choice, Mortyr is filled with "old school" key and switch hunts. Re: That door is locked! You must find the silver key! Quite candidly, this is a poor design choice. Thank you for providing this game here and share more old requested games.
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