Requiem: Avenging Angel PC Game Review
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- Опубліковано 21 бер 2015
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The game begins in the realm of Chaos, a limbo world between Heaven and Earth. It is here that, without the use of secular weapons, the player must resort to his angelic powers to defend himself. These angelic powers were an innovative feature of the game, working similarly to the Force Powers of Jedi Knight, and adding an extra dimension to the gameplay. It was also one of the first games to feature a bullet time feature, slowing down time to allow the player to dodge bullets, and highlighting the game's then advanced animation system.
The game's weaponry mirrors those of many first-person shooters, featuring many "stock" weapons as found in other games; from the humble pistol to the rocket launcher, and ultimately, the railgun One of the player's powers is the ability to possess an enemy, and to have complete control over him. This allows access to various other weapons which could not be used via the player character. Requiem was the earliest first-person shooter game to utilise a bullet time effect (first seen in the coin-op vertical shooter Astro Blaster) whereby the player can slow time down for a brief period making it easier to avoid bullets and kill multiple enemies.
Like Half-Life, Requiem did away with explicit mission scenarios, and instead placed the player within a seamless interlinked world, without the discontinuity caused by long level-loads. The majority of the game is set in mid 21st century Earth, and thus many of the locations visited in game are stylised versions of everyday locales, including a bar, a hospital and a power plant, among others. - Ігри
Such a classic FPS and so underrated. I love Requiem and at the time it's brought so much to the table 🖤
"To Salt" is to this day my favorite ability in any game ever made. I absolutely loved this game as a kid and knew there had to be a video about it from one of my regular UA-cam boomer-gamer content-creator crowd. Thanks for making sure this beautifully atmospheric game isn't completely forgotten just yet.
Looking back at how creative/original FPS games used to be makes me wanna cry. It's a bit annoying to hear so many people say "AAA devs are making too many first person shooters"
No, "AAA" devs are making too many first person shooters that are fucking terrible!
Or when people say "FPS games are all the same"
DrearierSpider1 AAA devs started moving away from FPS
Gggmanlives Unfortunately, there is some truth to that these days, and that's part of the problem.
DrearierSpider1 I don't think that's completely true, even for today's modern military shooters.
Man - you really reviewed ALL the games from my youth. Well-done!
The setting and art direction in this game is amazing. Great review, too, as always.
*tips fedora*
1:09
*untips fedora*
I loved this game back in the day. The angelic powers were awesome....Extremely underrated.
"Show me any other game that lets you turn people into salt."
Has he ever played any multiplayer games, like, ever?
Lol
😂
Which other games allow you to turn ppl into salt?
Genuine question.
@@TWH442 It was a joke about making people "salty" when you whup their asses online and they start QQing. I'm not aware of any other games that literally allow you to turn your opponents into salt but that's not what he was talking about.
Its sarcasm.. 😂
I remember owning this game when I was in junior high. Loved it. The abilities were something else at the time.
Finally someone knows what game is this.
Is true, this game is a some mixture of hexen 2 and half life, obviusly with the gold source engine, the steam version is (for me) the best version of this game
@@shadow_2919 agreed. Maybe Valve even looked at it and thought, "hm, a totalitarian city you say..."
Is free on gog now
Thanks for reviewing this forgotten FPS, Gggman.
If someone says, “religious themed FPS from 1998”, honestly not expecting something this impressive.
My brother actually completed this (eventually!). The second to last boss was impervious to "standard" weapons, angelic powers only. But the very last boss wasn't, railgun ahoy!
What an awesome concept, we need more games where you can play as a badass angel.
This game is a testimony of how big FPS expert Gman is. Not many FPS goers have ever heard of this gem, even fever had the knowledge or patience to make the game running on win7, let alone finish it with all of its problems. Thank you for waking up great memorries of playing this game in my high shool years.
this game used to be my jam when it came out.
always loved telling people how this had bullet time years before max payne :)
Max Payne never invented bullet time anyway, naming it that way, maybe, I don't even know. Popularized it, that's for sure.
dude thanx for working this hard, i can always count on your videos for my entertainment. Really cool, you are on my list of top reviewers out there
OH MAN OH MAN. here i was, "he surely hasnt reviewed requiem, this forgotten gem" - AND THEN YOU DID. big big love!
one of THE top games of my youth. there was a time when i was like able to quote EVERY line from that game. i loved the nothing held back violence, those screams of agony....have not yet seen anything like it again. truly a game from the time when developers were creative and were so unappreciated, they went out of business after releasing one game and that was that.
too fucking bad that we cant play it properly like, ANYMORE AT ALL and nobody seems to bother to redo it properly. would SO love to replay it like now, 15 years later. but can it be done? ain't also about getting it to RUN, but theres this weird bug where you just cant open a door. :(
EDIT: it is on steam! but it is in NO way updated or bugfixed in any way. almost unplayable. i guess there was any publisher who bought the rights to the game for 5 bucks, and then put it on steam fast ....
Gog. Maybe they included some workarounds?
This game back in the day blew my mind as strong as Drakan.
Finally the review I have been waiting for so long! many thanks ggmanlives!
I must admit, as a 13 year old playing the demo from a PC mag CD, the sound in this game was amazing, directional sound, and the fact that the enemies had dialog. AI was also something very interesting for its time.
I wanted this game as kid. I wanted every fps game. :-D I managed to play it recently and I have to say it is really good. One of the best shooters from the era.
Man! Finally someone does a retro review of this game. This is one of the obscure 90s fps games that I strongly remember.
Thanks for the video. I was waiting for your review on that.
FINALLY available on gog.com!
As a retro guy I love that you review all these old games. Keep up the good work.
jedi knight expansion, mysteries of the sith, had this gun that turned enemies into salt statues or something like that
It was a carbonate gun.
Because of course.
on gog now
I loved this so much as a kid. It's very spooky and atmospheric game, with character designs and artwork that wouldn't look out of place in the pages of 2000AD (Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors etc). The action's great, the story is interesting, and the "bullet-time" feature blew my young mind. Yes, the movement can be a bit janky but the grenade launcher more than makes up for it :) Happy memories.
I had this game when it first came out...the graphics were amazing at the time...fucking hard though!!
Love these older games you talk about !
Needs a GOG release, never heard of the game and I want to play it but I'm a lazy piece of shit.
+pumpkinsoul12 Just got one!
www.gog.com/game/requiem_avenging_angel
On sale right now on GOG.
Skull Servants are shit xdd
Jose Valles oh yeeaaaaaah, because over 10k attack is totally worthless.
This is awesome, when i got it running on my Windows 7 build i never finished it because i have to reinstall the Windows and the game stopped working after it and never worked anymore. Don't ask me why, i don't know either.
Aaahhh, so it was not my imagination when I thought I die rather too often =)
Great review as always!
Nice review. I didn't have the opportunity to play this game back then.
Thanks for bringing this one to light again :)
The most underrated game in history! ! ! !
review of an old game finally! was getting bored of all those new early access
never heard of this game, sweet
Nice review.
I had this game when I was a teenager, I really enjoyed it. I should play through it again if I can get it working.
Fantastic review. Now I want a copy...
Oh man I loved this game back when it came out. I worked for a gaming website back then (long before it was hip to work for one I suppose) and got pretty much every PC game that came out. When I saw this I was quite shocked (in a good way).
Just to be clear, 3DO went belly up shortly after this game was released, and Cyclone Studios was nuked along with 3DO. This game used an engine Cyclone developed specifically for this game and to be licensed out like Unreal and Quake were starting to do at the time.
Been waiting for a sequel or remake since 2000! my favorite moments were when I possessed those big mechanical suits with chain guns on each arm, something I haven't seen in any other game since then.
How can you make so many cool videos in such a short period of time ;-;
MAGIC
This was the first game that when I played I felt like I was playing something that I was too young for, and I had played Soldier of Fortune the year earlier, I would have been 8 or 9 when I played Requiem.
Great review!
Great news, as of today the game is available on GOG!
www.gog.com/game/requiem_avenging_angel
+DrearierSpider1 I hope +gggmanlives does an update to this video then.
Loved that game. Great review!
I really enjoyed this game back in the day. Haven't played it in a while, might try and get it working myself.
Thanks to this video I discovered this game. I really liked it. Definetly one of the better old school shooters. Thank you!
Thanks again so much! Greetz from Germany :)
I remember beating this game years ago. I'm glad is out on GOG now. The sound track was repetitive but it did have a terminator like vibe to it. The original game disk you could even pop it in a cd player and listen to the whole sound track.
Great review, thanks for sharing :-)
Good review. I picked up this game from a budget bin for 10 Euros about 9-10 years ago and it run it pretty well on Win XP with my Vodoo 3 2000. I much enjoyed it and the angelic powers were especially awesome. There was an official patch released that corrected several problems (enemy rockets hitting you through walls etc) but still it had a lot of bugs.
loved this as a kid. i was the only person i knew that had ever heard about it, even like a year after its release
I love this game. Have had it since the 90s. I still have it complete with box. I finally got it running on my pentium 2 with a voodoo 2 card. You need the 3 patches to get this game working . I remember even back in the 90s you needed the patches to have it run.
This looks way cooler than half life .. wish I knew about this back in those days ..
No, it does not.
i was just watching the documentary "Unforeseen Consequences: A Half-Life Documentary".... the developer of this game was describing the atmosphere in their office when they got the half life demo (and realised the entire industry had changed)
so no, no it does not
Isn't it the WORST seeing dated games you just know you'd have loved back then?!
Whaaaat?! Awesome game/weapons!
I really enjoyed the Driller Weapon from Turok! Cerebral Bore ; )
Requiem also looks like it has some Awesome Weapons to!
thumps up for ya Ggg Dude
It would be cool to see a remastered edition of this. I bullet time and salt powers would look cool as heck.
This is one came directly from my childhoold memories!
Great work Gggmanlives!
I still have problems to get it working. Always receiving the message to install DirectX 6.
There's a modified exe you have to download to fix the DX6 error.
This channel has made me go back and play through so many gems I have missed from the late 90s and early 2000s. A bit better than paying for all the AAA garbage about these days.
This seems like a really cool idea for a game. The Religious Armageddon + Sci-Fi type of stuff has always seemed cool and appealing to me, which is why I really like Doom :) Nice review GGGMan. I agree with everyone else that this needs to be re-released on GOG, I'd love to see that.
Gonna add this one to the backlog, looks sweet and I don't think I ever even heard about it.
Badass looking game I'll have to get it on sale.
I reviewed this game back in the day for one of the Planet sites.
Cool game with a bunch of issues. Although I'll quibble with one thing in your review. Technically, the enemies aren't firing hit-scan weapons, which leads to one of the cool features. When you slow down time, you discover they're firing super-fast projectiles which you'll see slowly moving through the environment.
I bought this Game when I was seven for our Win95 family pc. I was so annoyed to find my hardware wasn't good enough! I must get around to playing it.
Hey, this game also invented Psionic abilities and Plasmid's combined with gunplay before System Shock 2 and Bioshock respectively as well, and ive honestly never even heard of this game until now.
Might have to pick this up. :)
Gut gemacht, Gggman.
DueP_DoG Als ob er deutsch könnte.
Er kann keine andere Sprache reden, er ist ein bisschen doof
I've nevver heard of this game before, but the visuals are really cool!
Back in a day it seemed killer and was a lot of fun!
The theme and premise that Requiem: Avenging Angel has would fit a Doom game perfectly IMO
I want try this game now ! :)
My all time favorite game. Played it on win98, never had a single problem or crash. It ran faultlessly why it never got moved to a gaming platform is beyond me
The animations of dying enemies are very quake-like, the way ammo pops up too.
Great game back in the day.
I have no issues playing back then early on. Awesome game.
*Call me sophomoric, however that "Pain it the Sphincter" line had me cracking up, it was THAT funny!*
Used to play this game a lot,even got serial port multiplayer working.
This bastard is staring back at me on my shelf, please a video or a link or any steps to getting this to run would make my week, no MONTH.
Save me Gggman, your my only hope!... at getting the game running.
I think I just patched it to be honest dude. There is a windowing program called D3D which can force games to run in windows as well but just changing compatibility modes worked for me.
Gggmanlives Thanks but i still get "install directx 6"
Game james check out this page: pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Requiem:_Avenging_Angel
Slipgate Tourist
There's a modified exe you have to download to fix the DX6 error.
Slipgate Tourist Thanks man, it crashes a LOT, but getting it running is half the battle!
This looks pretty badass for such an old game.
I played Requiem on my old Windows 98SE system. I didn't run into any of the usual bugs (like doors that wouldn't open), but it did crash fairly often. I tried running it under XP once and the main menu wasn't centered properly and I would occasionally see flashes of the desktop, which pretty much ruined the immersion factor.
As for the controls, I could swear that I was able to assign angelic powers to specific keys. I have a vague memory of using the numeric keypad to access my favorite powers.
Couple pieces of trivia: You only get the bullet time power after you find a fellow angel in one of the levels, however even though finding him is one of the level goals, it's possible to finish the level without finding him, meaning you never get that power. The first time I played it, I forgot about finding him, finished the level and only realized that I didn't get the power when I finished the whole game and realized that I hadn't used that power once. While you can resurrect fallen enemies to fight by your side, they're still considered enemies by other friendly NPCs.
forget gaben, GOG is our new lord and savior. they recently released outlaws. btw great review gggman.
Back in the late 90's when I was a young teenager I'd always pick this game off the shelf but I never got round to buying it. There was so many quality shooters around at this period this game was a bit of an underdog.
One of my favorite Game.
Game recommendation: "Secret Service: In Harm's Way" (stay far away from the sequels). Around 2002. Developed by FunLabs, published by Activision. An FPS that takes a few minutes to get the hang of, but then quickly became one of my favorite shooters of all time. It's hard to describe, but I've not played anything quite like it before. Flawed and mostly shredded in the reviews of the day, but fun as hell if you've got patience.
Well, i'm so glad you ask :D :D :D respect ;)
Whelp, looks like I have a new classic to put on my wishlist.
Geist. In that game, not only can you play as a salt shaker, but you become a toilet as well.
10/10
This game was one of the first 3d pc games i played as a tween
Played it on release. I only remember it being really really hard... and awesome. (:
This game looks great, hard to believe I haven't heard of it before. A early 2000's fps you should check out is command and conquer renegade.
i had this game original on cd with the bigbox and everything. bought it well got it from my father when we found it in a discount bin in some kind of warehouse store. believe it was like 10 euros converted to nowadays currency so it was cheap. loved the game didnt played it much because the first level made me sacred shitless. i was only 12 or so at the time when i got this game. but i always wanted to finish it. but my cd got scratched so much that it didnt even wanted to install anymore. point is i have the GOG version now lets see if i can finally finish it. game looks really awesome overal.
It's funny, I just discovered this game and put a copy on my ebay wishlist. I thought, "man, gggman needs to review this." Bam, here it is
I live to please :)
Now you just gotta do a review of ZPC :P
This game looks rad as hell.
Free on GOG right now.
"just keep those fedoras untipped, alright" XD this man
I played the prologue are when I was a kid, I loved. I nevwe knew the name of the game until this day.
this game is great I had it back in 1999
Member this one!
Liked it when it was new
Loved that game!
Had this game back in the day but didn't get to play it much as I had difficulty getting it to run. I enjoyed what little I got to play it felt like it was pushing the envelope a bit like Turok. I'll probably pick it up on GOG eventually and sync it with XPadder.
This game was a nightmare to get running but I loved it once I got it stable. I played it back when it came out. I haven't revisited it, but I was cleaning out my gaming room today and found the CD.
I remember playing the demo for this game and liking it. Never bought it though. Always get confused between this game and that one where you play a little cherub in some scifi third person shooter.