Does anyone remember...
May. 31st, 2004 09:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathany...Disruptor?
Disruptor is a PSOne game that came out around 1996. It's a first person shooter which uses the combination of weapons (guns) and psionics. However, it is fondly remembered and often makes appearances on various people's "top twenty ever games" or "top five underated games", etc. What makes Disruptor memorable is a combination of interesting strategy and resoundingly "B-movie" FMV sequences.
Game-wise, Disruptor stands out because there is a real choice of which weapons and psionics to use. Blast vs Cyclone is one of my standard dilemmas and I'm personally not a Shield person; however both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bateleur and ao_lai have alternative strategies. The missions are genuinely varied (in particular "Shut Down the Reactor" and "Mars" both require a completely different approach from their predecessors) and a couple of them are genuinely creepy ("Triton" scares me every time). The game isn't flawless but it is still very playable.
The FMV sequences became a Fort Jackson in-joke. We used to have a sign saying "To Teleporter" on the back of the front door and ours looked just as professional as theirs. Consequently if you like laughing at B-movies, you'll love the stuff they provide around the missions!
The real reason I'm waffling on about it at all though, is because I've never finished it. I've got to the last continue point of the last mission, but I've never managed to beat the final bad (although I've seen other people do it). However this weekend I've played the whole game from start... to finish! Hurrah!
Now back to Final Fantasy V. Or possibly Twisted Metal : World Tour.
Disruptor is a PSOne game that came out around 1996. It's a first person shooter which uses the combination of weapons (guns) and psionics. However, it is fondly remembered and often makes appearances on various people's "top twenty ever games" or "top five underated games", etc. What makes Disruptor memorable is a combination of interesting strategy and resoundingly "B-movie" FMV sequences.
Game-wise, Disruptor stands out because there is a real choice of which weapons and psionics to use. Blast vs Cyclone is one of my standard dilemmas and I'm personally not a Shield person; however both
bateleur and ao_lai have alternative strategies. The missions are genuinely varied (in particular "Shut Down the Reactor" and "Mars" both require a completely different approach from their predecessors) and a couple of them are genuinely creepy ("Triton" scares me every time). The game isn't flawless but it is still very playable.The FMV sequences became a Fort Jackson in-joke. We used to have a sign saying "To Teleporter" on the back of the front door and ours looked just as professional as theirs. Consequently if you like laughing at B-movies, you'll love the stuff they provide around the missions!
The real reason I'm waffling on about it at all though, is because I've never finished it. I've got to the last continue point of the last mission, but I've never managed to beat the final bad (although I've seen other people do it). However this weekend I've played the whole game from start... to finish! Hurrah!
Now back to Final Fantasy V. Or possibly Twisted Metal : World Tour.
