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This is the same Game as Chrome

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well It couold have been much much better. I did finish it and had some fun with it, but It just did not have that Zing to it, and when I found out it was the same as Chrome, that just really kind of made it feel a little lame. But if you nothing better to do and want to waste some time, give it a go.

DOESN'T EVEN INSTALL

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

before the game even installs, it gives this error something about math64.dll. i have tried EVERYWHERE and EVERYTHING to try to get it to work. from copying the cd's to my hd then installing, to installing the install fix to even install it in the first place. nothing works.

************ Major Issue ************

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

You might want to let customers know that the PC shooter Chaser has a Major issue.

The game will not load and the user gets the error message "Math64.dll". In trying to get to the bottom of this on the net, I've found the following information: Supposedly, the problem is that the installer is incompatible with both Service Pack 2 for windows XP (Home AND Pro) as well as some AMD systems.

Further, that the developers are aware of the issue but do not plan to fix it. There does not seem to be any workarounds past this error other than uninstalling SP2, installing the game and then re-installing SP2. I do not know what the AMD issues are.

I have not yet tried this workaround, so I cannot comment further on that. However, it would seem prudent that anyone planning to buy Chaser should take all this into consideration before purchasing it.

not a bad game despite what other poeple may say

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Yeah, people say that this borrows from other games, and this is true to a large extent. But I still found it rather fun and is a welcome releif from all the WWII and vietnam shooters I've ben playing. The music is half decent reminiscent of what you would listen to in an action movie film like a Steven Segal flick (I never did turn off the music like I do in some games). The game setting seems to be a mix of contemporary and city architecture. I think the reason why the levels can be so boring is because the game level designers seemed to be more of an architect trying to capture what a building should be instead of a game level designer. And we know that most buildings are rather boring in their layout in real life, hence the boring level designs. Still, the game looks good, and the weapons are quite fun to play with and is mostly stable (I got stuck in a few levels, and also found some glitches where enemies could fire through doors and barrels). The plot seems to be reminiscent of the movie "Total Recall". The caviets that I didn't like about the game is that you need an internet patch to run this on XP SP2 (too bad for those out there that don't have internet access), and also the fact that sometimes you got stuck and didn't know where to go and had to look at the on-line guide to figure something that doesn't seem to be intuitive.

Chaser ranks fourth on my top ten favorite games

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

1) Quake 3 Arena
2) Quake 2
3) Half-Life
4) Chaser

Chaser has insanely large levels, TONS of weapons, great graphics, great gameplay (simple, but can be hard at times), some clipping errors, decent voice acting, detailed models, and TONS of replay. The levels are detailed and large and just fun to play. Me and my roomate went from playing doom 3 to quake 4 to Half-Life 2 and then to Chaser, and it wasnt a step down in any way! He is very picky, and he loved the large levels and the difficulty of play. Give it a shot! The CloakNT engine is very scalable (plays on most anything) and with everything up, looks good. I play with everything down (habit, dont ask) and its still good! Look for stuff from Cauldron, they are going in the right direction.

Too many bugs and no Raid.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Somehow I was able to play this game to the end. The game had a habit of freezing up on me. It was pretty cool but the story was weak, however, there's a twist at the end which leaves possibility for a sequel. After a while I felt like I was just going through the motions of going from one level to the next. It's good to play only once if the bugs don't get you first.

Chasing Greatness

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

As you might expect, I love great computer games-especially shooters. Games like Unreal and Quake II have taken me to amazing worlds that I love to visit time and again. Sadly, the great games seem to be getting scarce. Sure, the newer games never looked better, but they just seem to be bogged down by problems like poor save systems and "innovative" gameplay that is more annoying than refreshingly different.

Last fall I thought I finally found a new game that I could call great-Chaser. Few will deny that Chaser is a great looking shooter with good weapons and some awesome levels. It resembles Half-Life in many ways and often betters it in a lot of places. I really loved this games in the earlier parts, but as it wore on, the warts started to show and left me frustrated.

Perhaps the part of the game that really made me aware that pursuing greatness for this game amounted to chasing its tail (forgive the pun) was the underwater level. In this level you pilot a small sub through a sunken shipwreck. Your way is lighted by yellow lights that change to blue as you pass through them. The level looks very nice, buy you have no way to renew your health or armor which is repeatedly worn away by turrets that fire at you. You can destroy the turrets with your weapons, but I found that the alternate fire is almost useless, and if you don't rely solely on your primary fire, then get ready to look at that load screen! But even worse is that this level is huge and very difficult to navigate. Once you get through it you breathe a sigh of relief only to realize that the next level is more of the same. Uggh!

Another problem is that Chaser requires you to crawl through some tight places in which you need to find just the right combination of jumping, crouching, and forward movement. You can end up spending many frustrating minutes that seem like hours trying to get through these places. Why Chaser's developers seem to think such ordeals are fun is beyond me.

Chaser's combat seems to have been developed so as not to be too easy, and it seems to be well balanced in the first half of the game or so. However, from there it gets very difficult. In many places you get killed by being hit just once! It's as if the developers decided after finishing half of the game that it was too easy and decided to make up for it in the latter half by making it much more difficult.

Finally, Chaser seems to be a bit of a resource hog. It often locked up on me, and my computer is no wimp. I'm using a 3 GHz Pentium 4 with 512 MB RAM and a 128 MB Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card. I believe the problem might result from the CD. The "hiccups" I experienced often seemed to coincide with the CD audibly spinning in the drive.

You don't know how much I wanted to give this game a higher score. There's no doubt that it truly excels in many places, but the sore spots simply drag it down. I almost wish somebody would "modify" the game by taking all that crap out. However, that doesn't seem likely, and Chaser ends up as the great game that wasn't.

boring

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Chaser was boring enough that I stopped playing after a few hours. The whole thing is all the same... run and gun, run and gun, run and gun. Which in itself isn't all that bad, but the game is marred by several technical and design flaws.

Although the graphics are nice enough, they suffer from occasional clipping. Also, I don't know why games don't make better use of "curved" polygons... they've been around since Quake 3, and in this game, seeing, for example, cars with polygon wheels is really just an eyesore.

Gameplay is mostly clean and simple, but sometimes getting from one place to another is irritating, because the jump control is somehow badly designed. So, you often jitter around and get stuck when trying to jump from one place small area to another. I managed to get completely stuck once, so that I have to reload from a savegame. There's an adrenaline feature, similar to bullet time in Max Payne, but not as fun. There's a few twists and puzzles here and there, but they're just an excuse to make the game longer, and end up being more irritating than fun.

Perhaps the most irritating thing about the game is the long, drawn out, and ultimately useless cutscenes. I often got the feeling that the designers were using the cutscenes to show off the graphics engine. Except, it's really not nice enough to show off, so it just got boring.

As far as gameplay is concerned, Chaser would have been a decent game to play... five years ago. These days, one expects more from an FPS.

Bargain bin only

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Chaser is a pretty ordinary shooter that borrows heavily from lots of other shooters. VERY heavily. It's about as original as the no-name brand Cheerios ripoffs that you find at Krogers, and it sometimes almost collapses under the weight of its many cliches. It also has a handful of huge, long, mind-numbingly repetitive levels that are a chore to play through. Nevertheless, it manages to be a decent game, largely because it has a great engine, huge levels, lots of gameplay, some cool scenery, a decent story, and lots of powerful and cool-looking weapons.

Within the first two hours of playing the game, you will recognize every standard FPS convention in the book. Scripted enemies popping through doors as you approach them, conveniently-located vents to get around locked doors, amnesia as a storyline, and even bullet-time (called "adrenaline mode" here, it actually works pretty good). Enemies have pretty simple routines for attacking you -- they either rush right at you or duck back and forth behind cover. Enemy voice samples are pretty bad, and they repeat themselves ad nauseum (lowlife thugs and Mafia suits have the same "Woooeee" yell -- it's pretty bad). The game relies heavily on scripted "ambushes" to add difficulty to the game, and that gets quite annoying or downright frustrating. But the game's biggest fault by far are the horribly bland design of some of the early levels, which drag on for as much as an hour, but throw no variety at you. Picture the Halo library over and over again.

But Chaser rewards you if you stick with it, because the levels start getting a lot better about halfway through. There is a "defend the base" mission, a sniper cover mission, and a couple of other wildcards that help change the pace a bit. The game's Russia missions and Mars missions look very impressive -- the Cloak Engine is quite an acheivement and it has the ability to create massive outdoor areas as well as large indoor areas with cool lighting. And when the shootouts are good, they are really great. The weapons look and sound excellent, and every room seems to have glass breaking all over the place. There are about 20 big levels in the game, and that gives it a lot of value for an FPS.

Chaser can keep you occupied, but it never totally captivates you. Chaser is definitely not a bad game, but it's probably one that you want to pick up in the bargain bin.

Great Shooter

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Chaser is a great shooter without numerous flaws. It boasts good graphics, an engaging storyline and authentic weapons. All of those are true. The 1 player mode has 23 differnet levels and 73 different types of enemies to kill. The game also has online multiplyer capabilites. Different mods such as Counter-Strike, Shock Troopers, Deathmatch and Capture the flag are waiting to be played. I believe that there are about 15 differnt weapons, most with seconary fire modes. The only flaw in this game is that it was rushed, therefore there are a few glitches. There are a few walls that can be passed through, although it is harder to ge into them than it might seem. Also, very very few hacks are there. Some hacks allow you to fly (my favorite).

Graphics: 4.5 / 5
1 Player Depth: 5 /5
Online Features: 4.5 / 5
Gameplay: 4.5 / 5

OVERALL: 4.5 / 5

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