Crusader: No Regret

• CPU: 486
• RAM: 8 MB
• Hard Disk: 55 MB

Crusader: No Regret is a 1996 third-person shooter published by the U.S. developer Origin Systems and the continuation of the game Crusader: . No Remorse of 1995 was published in the distribution of Electronic Arts for MS -DOS.

Action

The plot of Crusader: No Regret is 46 hours after the finale of Crusader: No Remorse one. The Silencer, who managed to escape in an escape pod from the exploding space station Vigilance is collected by a World Economic Consortium ( WEC), Space Transportation, and the moon base of the WEC, which acts both as a mining colony as well as a prison, brought. In the course of the action of silencers sabotaging the infrastructure of the WEC, freed prisoners and stands at the end of the game finally the WEC Chairman Draygan as boss over. Once this has been defeated, the resistance takes over the lunar base.

Gameplay

The gameplay is not much different from its predecessor. Extensive briefings and dialogues in the base attributable, for this is the more common way to control turrets or mechs.

Technology

For use comes as in the predecessor a modified version of the graphics engine of Origins role-playing game Ultima VIII: Pagan, which represents the game from an isometric perspective in SVGA. The graphics have been slightly improved and more destructible objects integrated into the environment. As in the previous uses Crusader: No Regret, full motion to advance the story in cutscenes.

Reception

Reviews

Like the predecessor received Crusader: No Regret mostly positive reviews. Was honorable mention was again the driving, action-packed gameplay, criticized by the Power Play especially the lack of variety, the few differences and the short playing time, which would give the impression " that it is a at full price titles inflated Mission Disk " the principal.

Representation of violence and Certification

After the USK Rating aged 18 years and subsequent indexing of the predecessor in Germany, problems with the age level were to be expected for the successor. The game was thus defused all items again violence on the part of the developer. During Crusader: No Regret was released in the U.S. with the ESRC Rating "T" ( synonymous with " aged 13 years " ), the Entertainment Software Self- control forgave this time a release " over 16 years ".

Continuation and republishing

A third part of the series was scheduled but has not been realized. 2001 gave rights holders Electronic Arts green light for a film adaptation of the predecessor Crusader: No Remorse, which was never implemented.

In June 2011, Crusader was: No Regret republished along with its predecessor on GOG.com. The version is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Mac OS X.