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Date: 1995
Developer: Origin Systems
Publisher: Electronic Arts
System Requirements:
- 486/DX2-66 MHz
- 8 Megabytes of RAM
- 2x CD-ROM
- Video card that supports SVGA at 640x480
- 30 Megabytes of HDD space
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This week on RPDG, I'm going to be playing a PC DOS game that I played and loved when it first came out. I have not played it since then, so this will be pretty close to a new experience for me as it has been 20 years(!) since I last played it. The game is Crusader: No Remorse, an isometric third-person action game by one of the best development studios of the 80s and 90s: Origin Systems. Almost every game Origin made was a classic, I can't think of a bad game by them. They had a run from the release of Wing Commander in 1990 to Wing Commander Prophecy and Ultima Online in 1997 where basically every game they developed was fantastic and a competitor for being a game of the year. Even the games they released as the publisher were great, such as Ultima Underworld 1 and 2, System Shock, and Shadowcaster.
Crusader: No Remorse came out in 1995, right in the midst of Origin's peak. It got great reviews at the time, but how does it play today? Can a third-person action game, that was acknowledged to have somewhat cumbersome controls at the time of its release, overcome this issue to be still playable and fun? I hope so!
