1 person found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 4.3 hrs on record
Posted: 2 May, 2017 @ 4:03pm
Updated: 30 Mar, 2020 @ 6:27am

This is a third-person cyberpunk mecha action shooter. A love letter to video games, drenched in early/mid 90's anime, dystopian sci-fi, and Hong Kong cinema. Tight controls and exhaustive, yet refined shooting gameplay that will test your skills as a gamer. It's a straight-forward affair of action punctuated by intense boss battles that will leave you hungry for more. Seriously. Slave Zero was birthed from PC gaming's golden age when development was largely driven by passion instead of dollar signs. Infrogrames NA was a small, underpaid, and overworked team of veteran developers that clearly had a love for this type of schlocky science fiction. If you are willing to do a little bit of Googling to get the game up and runnning on a modern OS (there are many guides and resources to help you do this!), Slave Zero is an absolute treat of late 90's game design. Treat yourself!

Side note: I recommend skipping the widescreen patches and opting instead to play the game in its native 4:3 aspect ratio at an internal (default) resolution of 640x480 and let nGlide render it at 1080. The widescreen patches, though handy and well-crafted don't use the game's Steam-provided exe, thus you cannot track your game time but also there is something oddly satisfying experiencing the software rendered closer to its native state as the creator's intended.
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