Recent reviews by Necrom

One of the best games i've ever played, and it's nice to see it on Steam. Most reviews are right about this release being bugged (freezes after the opening cutscene), but it is not completely impossible to play and enjoy.

Altough the game is bugged, there are a few tricks to make it possible to play in Windows 7 and 8/8.1 (32/64 bits), even without compatibility mode.

The easiest workaround to make the game playable is to use a different WAIL32.dll, and, as so, use it to substitute the one that comes shipped trough this Steam release (which may be illegal).

If you've managed to do this, the game will actualy load to the point that you will be able to start a new game. Do this and after the map loads up you must disable the sound effects (you may let the music on if you want to, but the sound effects are the real issue). If you don't, the game may crash after sometime.

Of course I know this not the best solution, but it may save you some time and frustration if you already enjoyed this game in the past and was happy to see it on Steam.

A few crashes may happen even if you've managed to do all these steps, so be prepared to have autosave as your allie (or save by yourself from time to time).

One of the things that I missed so much in this release is the lack of network gameplay. Which is not impossible if you use the old CD version.

The best possible (and legal) solution to play this game in Win7/8/8.1 would be running Steam inside a virtual machine with Win XP.

If the crashes are something you are considering to workaround with, and have hopes that Retroism/Night Dive Studios (or who else may have the power to) do any proper fix in the future, buy this game.

If you have patience, and don't want to have headaches because of the possible crashes, don't buy this release yet and wait for a proper solution.