It all just feels a bit disappointing and janky for a port which should really be delivering an age-old classic into our hands with crisp, clean controls – why on earth haven't they made use of the touchscreen? – and minimal loading times. All of this is made worse by some of the very old-school design choices of this nearly twenty-year-old adventure, with no waypoints or assistance provided in order to clue you into where you should be going next, meaning you'll spend a lot of time panning the shoddy camera around looking for clues.įor such an old game that hasn't been hugely overhauled, there's also quite a surprising amount of slowdown going on, with the action and camera feeling as though they're being dragged through mud at points – especially in docked mode – and even the loading times are bizarrely lengthy, taking a good long while to start a level and a frustrating amount of time to restart when you quick load or die you really will spend a long time looking at static loading screens in this one. The camera controls too – which force you to hold in the right shoulder button and using the D-Pad to then move your viewing angle or zoom in and out incrementally – are unintuitive, and the default viewpoint is far too restrictive, meaning you need to constantly scroll around and bring up your game map in order to keep an eye on where enemies are at.

Even the game's opening training missions saw us succumb to the enemy on numerous occasions due to an inability on our part to reliably climb up a pole, shimmy across wires, or just shoot straight at a small number of guards without making a right pig's ear of things. It feels buggy and unexacting in even the most simple of interactions, and it makes levels which are already rather tortuously tough, a proper pain to put up with.

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