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frustrating and invasive

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 12
Date: November 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for a single player first person shooter. What I got was signed up to a lot of online spyware. I did not expect the game to require an online connection to play, and I resented being subjected to a gaming paysite as I loaded the game. Otherwise, the game might have been fun... except that I could not figure out how to save anything.. having to start out from the beginning every time got old fast. I was persuaded to buy the game by all the other glowing reviews; thus my advice... don't waste your time or money!

Many new FPS ideas, nearly all of them failed.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: June 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was really wanting to play a new FPS and was excited to try Gore, but this is not a very good shooter. Many of the extras that were meant to help Gore stand out from the pack, in reality hurt the game.

First the was the stamina concept, good in theory but bad in pratice. Picture this, you're going about looking for the other players then suddenly the screen goes black. Were you shot? Nope your stamina just got too low and you passed out. Just imagine how fun that is in the middle of a firefight.

Then there's the whole armor issue. Unlike games such as UT and Q3, in Gore if you have a helmet on then if someone pops you in the head with a rocket you take no health damage! So if someone is in full armor then they are a walking tank. Only way to hurt them is to wear away the armor first.

Finally there's the look of Gore. The ppl at Dreamcatcher Interactive did say they were focusing more on gameplay than graphics and that is a good idea. But the game looks bad. Reminds me of Quake 1 using a GL patch. Well looks like I'll have to wait for UT 2003 for a good FPS

lacking

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: June 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

don't buy this game. there are many other titles that are far cheaper/better. it may be fun to those who like q3a, but to me it's just graphically primitive and the gameplay is obscene (characters move too quickly, the ai's ability to aim is awful)

i suggest max payne, ghost recon, or infiltration (mod for unreal tournament) or urban terror (mod for quake 3). this game takes two steps backward and from what i can tell there is nothing that it brings to the genre

God-Awful Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the worst FPS's I have ever played in my entire life. It can be summed up as the following;
NEVER EVER BUY THIS GAME
EVER
NEVER EVER
Plentiful bugs, horrible graphics, shoddy coding, and registration that signs you up for spyware all help to make this one of the worst FPS games ever released upon an unsuspecting public.
Want a fast online FPS? Go buy Unreal Tournament or Quake 3 Arena or ANYTHING BUT THIS!

Old game, different name.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Very disappointed in this game. It's only a jazzed-up version of another FPS game called Hired Team that came out awhile ago. Not happy with Gore at all.

Too repetitive, no new challenges

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: September 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The single player mode gets boring after awhile. The enemy characters and sayings are extremely repetitve and there is no real "extras" in the game. The graphics are not really that "gory" and they are also very repetitive. I found quake 2 to have better blood loss and change in death scenes. The major problem I found was with the compatibility of XP. I have a new computer and almost everytime I was somewhere in the game it would kick out of the system and I would lose everyting, It was very frustrating to restart the game and hope it would even load. The only thing I did enjoy about the game was the multiple weapon systems and alternative fire methods. I find the game disappointing at best.

Play it for the multiplayer

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Gore isn't a bad first person shooter for a budget price, but I found that the gameplay got too repetitive because they only have a handful of enemies. They used the same enemies over and over so your being attacked by 3 of the same enemy at points. Had they chosen anything other than humans, this wouldn't have been as so bad. The graphics are around an 8 for it's time. The multiplayer is the best part of the game, but you have to actually find the few that play it. They tend to be accepting to new players. Basically, if you can get it for under $5, give it a shot. If nothing else it will entertain you for an hour or so.

GOOD First-person Shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

"Gore" is one of those indipendant developer projects that you admire despite its flaws - which are plentiful. After all, the single player campaign isn't much different than "Doom," and the missions, while sometimes interesting (like the haunted house or the escort scenario), feel very disconnected from one another despite the ongoing (but ultimately feeble) plotline. After all, what does an old Western town have in common with an ancient temple, a gothic cathedral, or a futuristic cityscape? Not much. If you're looking for a FPS with a good story, avoid this one. However, if you're looking for a shooter with some solid action moments, "Gore" is the budget-priced title for you (assuming you've already played your way through the "Serious Sam" games). After all, "Gore" offers loads of cool weapons with alternate fire modes. In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of a game in recent times with this many weapons to pick from. Some of them are conventional FPS material (like the beloved chain gun or missile launcher), and others are truly unique (like the shielded shotgun). Though the enemies can quickly become repetitive, and have maddeningly poor voice-overs (which sound remarkably like an enraged Weird Al), the damage modeling is surprisingly good. It's not Soldier of Fortune by any means, but head-shots count, and that's a plus. Don't expect to interact with your environment much, though. This game doesn't even contain a single door to open, let alone any kind of puzzlers. It's a strange move, but it keeps the action flowing.

The Bottom Line: "Gore" is a good FPS, particularly if you're in the mood for multiplayer action. The single-player campaign is fairly entertaining, but nothing to write home about. In any other case, this would warrant 3 stars, but given the affordable price and the game's admirable origins, I had to give it 4. "Gore" isn't a bad little game if you're not expecting great things.

Speed of quake 3 with the tact of counterstrike

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gore is fast. Much faster than games like counterstrike and global ops, and even outpacing quake 3. With the speed, however, there is a dose of tact that makes this one's gameplay better than most of the standard FPS's out there. It has player classes, much like the more lifelike games out there, but it also packs the weapons and such (rocket launchers, miniguns, etc.) that make it more like quake 3 and such. I played the full version and quickly became addicted, especially to the tactical mode, which is much like counterstrike in that you only have one life. The balance of the player classes make it so any class can win, even a woman versus a 1000 pound robot. One guy has c4 charges, so he can camp around home base and detonate when somebody comes prancing along with his rocket launcher.

Other people may put down the graphics for this game compared to other games coming out, but the system requirements are very low.. people play this game and get 30 frames per second with 350 mhz. machines and a 2 year old graphics card. The graphics aren't even bad. I thought they were better on my 333 mhz. machine with a gforce 2 than what Unreal Tournament could pump out.

Although you may have not heard of this title before, in my opinion, it is a far superior game to Unreal Tournament and Quake 3, and even counterstrike fans could go for it. So buy a copy, and while you're at it, get one for your freind =].

A great multiplayer game: addictive and funny

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Gore offers the speed of quake with elements of various other more tactical games, where there are player classes and a stamina system. The combination of strategy and speed made this one really addictive to me, and I was surprised how a small company based in Nebraska (4drulers) could make a game that, in my opinion, tops games like unreal tournament in quake for gameplay, community, and addiction.

The graphics, in my opinion, are not the BEST they could be, but my ever since I started playing it I've thought the graphics were better than Unreal Tournament, and the textures are far superior. I run gore on a 333 emachine with a $30 geforce2, and I get 35-45 frames per second usually. And if you would have any trouble getting the game to work properly, then I am sure the you will be able to receive help from the makers of the game themselves (in fact, you can even see them in the game sometimes).

Gore is meant for multiplayer. The netcode is already rock solid, and the design of the multiplayer missions/modes is excellent. [....]

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