BlowOut

Blowout seemed quite interesting metroidvania game at first, but it has good amount of issues going for it. First would be controls which should have been overhauled or worked on for PC version. Mouse is incredibly unusable and spin to the 2nd screen and pops you out of the game, also aiming is pretty hard since it goes all over the place even with changing sensitivity settings. Controller would have been the option to go, but it seemed like game didn't recognize it though Steam popups did show in game for controller added. So only option was to go with keyboard which game was ok to play. First level was good fun with few different enemies, new weapon, boss fight to go through, but in second level fast noticed how you will lose all progress due annoying lasers which instakill you. There are "S" for safepoints on map, but they aren't save points, instead they only fill your health bar and that doesn't really help with lasers. Tested game with invincibility cheat for this level and think it's not worthwhile to tackle through due losing progress all the time and with cheat it's not fun either. Boss fight in second level was new boss, but it was copy pasted so there were three of th…

This game was HUGE for me as a kid, unfortunately during the many moves my parents made, the disk for my Xbox Original was lost and only the game guide and the empty case remained.... When I saw this on the steam store it was an unexpected but very much so welcome surprise! My only real complaint about the port of this from console to PC is the Mouse is a little jank and the Audio is inconceivably loud

Why is it that those pesky aliens are infesting our spaceships and installations? We are forced to blow them out of existence. Contrary to the naysayers BlowOut runs just fine on Win10x64 in 16:9 full screen for me without the need of a wrapper like dgvoodoo. K/M control scheme: LCtrl activate LM fire RM jet pack MWheel weapon select WASD movement It's a blast from the past but still holds it's own against contemporary shovelware. Absolutely worth picking up on a sale.

This game is hard enough, but having no checkpoints and no savestates doesn't make it better. This is a very poor Metroid clone, with the worst mouse controls I've ever seen in a video game. At first I thought that the game was glitching, but then I realized that it's just how it works: mouse look depends on cursor position, making your character turn left and right when you don't want him to. There are 10 levels in the game, they are hard, long and tedious. I cannot afford playing for hours and hours just to beat one level in one sitting. That times are over. And on top of all things, the game doesn't recognize any modern game controllers.

BlowOut is a classic. I used to play this all the time on PS2 and Gamecube back in the day. Your objective is simple. Get through each level, find the keys, kill a bunch of mutated monsters, and have fun! You start with an infinite ammo machinegun and a jetpack to help you get from one floor to another on an abandoned and deteriorating space station. Just know that it is an older game, so there may be some bugs. For me, the xbox one controller won't work but I think an xbox360 one will but have yet to test it as it has been years since my last time playing. Overall, things have worked just fine for me aside from an error message at launch but doesn't seem to affect gameplay in any way.

This released the same year as BloodRayne 1, but somehow this optimization is worse, and the controls are like trying to wrestle a chimpanzee. I enjoyed Terminal Reality's time while it lasted, but this has aged like milk... and it's well past its sell by date. So unless there's some fixes that are released 20-something years after the game's release, it's going to remain unplayable in this format.