When you are trying to reach an objective in the game such as a bomb that must
be defused, you will have to find it with one of the worst radars in gaming. It
consists of a black circle with an arrow pegged to the center to represent you.
If you’re lucky enough to be somewhere near the objective, then you’ll also see
a red dot. This is not really much help at all as it is entirely
counter-intuitive as to where this dot is in relation to you and even as to
which direction it is in. You’ll move in a direction that you think is taking
you towards the dot only to find it disappear off screen. Even when you seem to
be moving in the right direction you can come to a dead-end and be forced to
find some alternate route as the red dot disappears from view again. Perhaps the
developers were not aware of a recent innovation in gaming known as the in-game
map.
Making all of the wrong turns and reloads even more frustrating is the
excruciatingly slow pace at which you move. You turn slowly, you run slowly, you
look around slowly … try playing a game using honey for a mouse mat and you’ll
get the picture.
The game tries to create a living city feel by including traffic and pedestrians
everywhere, but it fails in this department as well. The people are poorly
animated and seem to be there simply to run around in circles when the shooting
starts. There doesn’t even seem to be any consequence to shooting a few of the
locals. The cars aren’t drivable, they’re scale is off making them appear as
vehicles used only by clowns or cartoon characters, and they are all boxy and
fuzzy. In fact, the whole city is boxy and fuzzy with the same textures repeated
over and over again, and inexplicably covered with ads and posters for Torrente.
If you’re a Torrente-obsessed fan, if there is such a person, then you can
justify buying this game to complete your collection of all things Torrente,
assuming that there are other things Torrente to collect. How’s that for a
reach? Anyway, I can’t think of any reason to recommend this game to anyone
else…
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
30%. ‘Torrente’ may just be a new Spanish word for ‘terrible’.
System Requirements: Pentium II 233 MHz; 128 MB RAM; 8 MB
Video RAM; 516 MB Hard disk space.
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