2180 AD... The Nuclear War has destroyed all, the world is a radioactive wasteland covered in ashes. 83 years later, a woman with no memory awakens and finds herself in a city called Krucible; a place of pain and suffering due to the oppressive reign from the Government of Order... Despite her own obsessive perversions, she is one of few with the courage and will to fight back...
I have officially beaten this mod and needless to say, this is definitely a well put together mod. I didn't experience any bugs whatsoever. Maybe a few textures out of place but they were textures that were out of sight. I did however suffer a crash while in area 2 for no apparent reason so I just started a new game and made sure to save often which thankfully the game didn't crash on me again. This is definitely a wolf 3d mod of high quality. It was interesting to see the zombies from Blood in this game and those rats from Crapstone's Operation Body Count. The story was simple yet appealing but the ending kinda depressed me about the character as after all the trouble she went through, Alice decided to go the DOOM 64 route and stay in the lower parts of Krucible forever but ends up in a state of madness it would seem. The music is downright dreadful but fitting for the environments. Also I swear the menu music sounds like a spin-off of the Tetris music and there's one track that kinda sounds like Castlevania's Bloody Tears in reverse. Just for the hell of it, despite the game giving off gothic Alice in Wonderland undertones, I pretended Alice is a descendant of BJ Blazkowicz and Doomguy since the premise of Krucible takes place decades after WWIII and kept calling this game Wolfenstein: Krucible. The original enemies were rather well designed and not only that but this game a few times scared the **** out of me. I turn around a corner and one of those ******* human spiders is almost right in my face!!! Those spiders are definitely the freakiest enemy in the game. I must say as well that this mod is certainly a perfect balance of action and horror. Only downside (which is minor) is the ammo cap for the shotgun but it didn't exactly matter to me once I got a hold of all the other weapons (minus the cryobow) oh yeah and **** map 18! I felt like walking a tightrope with my own movements being used against me but it was just one map as I was able to manage to stay away from the toxic lakes. I did manage to find plenty of secrets but no secret levels so I will soon play the game again to find them. Other than all that, I say this is a criminally underrated game and I don't know why the hell people were constantly giving you **** while you were developing this game. I would like to see Alice be given a happy ending (no sexual pun intended considering that's one of the major things about Krucible) and not a sad one like what happened at this game. I haven't played Insanitarium and I have no idea if it's a prequel or a sequel to Krucible or if this game is the sequel to Insanitarium but then again I've never seen a game sequel not have a subtitle when it's predecessor does have a subtitle. Overall, this is the Wolfenstein 3D I would recommend to people. Yes the coloring may be difficult to get used to but then again, I'm pretty sure your eyes would be hurting if you in this game's universe so that's understandable. Before I go overboard with my commentary, I give this mod a 10/10
Compelling and fun science-fiction story with cool weapons and characters. I was first introduced to Mad Wolf's work via Tara Carmichael's story. Now I can happily say by playing this I experienced a great mod.
Yes, there are bugs. The bugs don't really detract too much from the story until you reach the Sanitarium. Disheartening, yes. A reason for the modder to quit, modding. No! Frankly, the project isn't the disappointment. Rather, it is his willingness to exit his arena from criticisms.
I was the one who waited for the release of this mod. I recommend to play this mod, but I'll give only 6/10. This mod has pluses and minuses. So:
Pluses:
1) The atmosphere. I liked that post-apocalyptic world with sex/erotism in decent edges.
2) The story. The scenario has a lot of cliche, but I like how it's going. This is why I play this game further when I wanted to drop it due to hard difficulty (read minuses section).
3) Weapons. I don't like mods which one have a big weaponry with the same firepower. This mod doesn't have this problem. I've used all weapons (except the melee) all the time during the walkthrough.
4) Enemies. I liked most of mod's bestiary (except the "cat woman boss" due to her design and idea).
5) Level texturing. It's a really good textured mod. All levels are pretty.
Minuses:
1) Level design. God dammit most levels have a problem called "Where the hell I must go???". In Level #13 I spent about a 30 minutes due to grey key searching. I've "talked" with robotic guy many times to understand where is the key. And dammit I was in needed room about a 20 times - I just don't recognize the GREY key in the GREY floor with GREY walls! Honestly, I've dropped this mod in Level called "City of Ghosts". I spent about a hour in this map and I don't get it how to finish this. I'm really tired, sorry.
2) Music. Don't get me wrong - mostly music is interesting in this mod. But few midi tracks are bad. Mostly due to a really short duration. Especially "Sweet Dreams" song-cover by Marilyn Manson. I've got a headache TWICE due to short and looped music. For mods like this music must be a really long (10 minutes). Especially it's the midi so it can't be so big in megabytes.
3) HUD. I liked the Toxic Pallete idea but green numbers under the green-yellow template - oh no, it killed my eyes. First 3 levels I was getting used to it for understand which numbers I see. First time for me it was a mess. Also I disliked the main heroine face in HUD. I know it's not so easy to make such sprites but she is so amateur-drawed here! For serious dark mod it's too childly.
4) Hit detection problems. Mostly - tentacles. WHY they damage me when I'm far away from them? Especially when they're near the doors. Also explosive toxic barrels are too "fat" - you can't run between them even if you're going in empty "sector" between them. Also hated instantly-killing toxic lakes - sometimes you just going near this and dies for no reason.
I want to say that it's a GOOD mod, but far away from "perfect" score. I liked it and spent about a 3 nights to play it. Mad Wolf, you did a really good work but those minuses (especially level walkthrough problems) killed my moral sanity. So that's why I give you only 6/10.
Sorry for bad english, it's not my native language.