the Guru 3D - review

A Lucasarts game.

System Requirements:

Windows 95 or 98

200 MHz CPU

32MB RAM

4MB PCI or AGP Direct 3D Gfx Card

16-bit Sound Card

Quad speed CD-ROM

DirectX 6.1

Testing Machine:

Windows 98 SE

PII 350 o/c @ 400MHz

128mb RAM

Asus V3800 TNT2 o/c @ 175/200

Diamond MX-300 Sound Card

36x CD-ROM

DirectX 6.x

Nvidia Detonator Drivers Ver. 2.08

Yo, R2, you da droid!

No. No no no. This just won't do at all. With the kind of budget they had for the movie, you'd think the game would look like it cost more than 10c to make. I almost didn't bother to review this game, but I figured with all the hype surrounding the movie, people might want to know something about it. Yes, this follows the story to the movie, so if you haven't watched it, the game will ruin it a bit for you. Really, if you want to cash in on the popularity of a movie, at least produce a game that suits it. Not a half-baked dungpile like this. What a let down.

Water and stuff

Firstly, the game style is bloody awful. Third person from kind of above and behind the person's head. Ugh. Either go top-down or third-person, not both. You get to take on the roles on various people in the game, starting with Obi-Wan. Unfortunately, he looks like he's got his light saber stuck up his arse instead of in his hands. Actually, everyone in the game looks and walks like that. The animations are fairly simple, but it looks like the people are walking on air about 2 inches off the ground. Bleurgh. I can't even think of anything else to say baout this game. Pod Racer wasn't too bad. What the hell happened here??

To sum it up - crap en masse.


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