Re-Loaded Reviews

The game feels a lot different, new sounds, new effects and also visual clarity. Issues I have that would make it a lot better if they were adjusted: - The flames are a nice visual, however, some parts from the ps1 disc used lasers than flame throwers. Bringing this back would be great. - Music are either set at the wrong missions or do not exist in the game. E.g. after the foundry mission, the music does not match to the ps1 version. 2 music (Vanish and Assembly) we're not present in the game. - Some enemies are either too easy or too difficult. The ship part does not feel like a boss fight at all and took a few seconds to finish. Also took out the parts where the turrets used to be dodgeable, now it tracks at the player. - Camera cannot be adjusted as well as controls does not feel correct. Plus the setting is a bit annoying to set. Other than these, it's amazing, but the thing that made my not recommend it is due to these issues.

I'm happy to see this game available digitally. The DOS version is supposedly easier than the PS1 version, but it's still very difficult. You get 5 continues to beat the entire game, after which you get a game over. There are cheats if you get stuck, but it's a very difficult and finicky feeling game. The controls are imprecise and sometimes you will die due to enemies being offcenter when shooting you and there being no true analog aiming. The foundry in particular is pretty brutal in this regard. The story also basically doesn't exist and the ending is just... bizarre... and you never see your character again in the ending cinematic. This version of the game does include controller support and it works ok on my 21:9 monitor, although there's no window options. As a game in a vacuum, I would consider this lacking. If it was available I would recommend the original Loaded over this title. The thumbs up is because of the quality of the release (controller support, configured for modern hardware etc); but compared to other similar games of the era I would prefer to play something like gauntlet or robotron. If you want to shoot hordes of enemies, you can give this a look, but if you want anything more than that this will disappoint.