The Wheel of Time (1999) | 1440p60 | 2022 GOG Release | Longplay Full Game Walkthrough No Commentary

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Full game longplay of The Wheel of Time, an FPP, magic-based shooter running on the Unreal Engine 1, first released in November 1999, and recently, by Night Dive Studios, in April 2022. Here running at 2560x1440 resolution externally, with 4xMSAA, and some internal resolution fixes so the HUD/UI scales *reasonably*, so you can actually read any texts in the game/objectives. Recorded at 1440p60, with some brightness upped.

Plot adnotation:
The game's setting in respect to the novels is ambiguous; the storyline was said to precede the novels by some 150 years. Although Robert Jordan was consulted, the game's storyline is not considered canonical for the Wheel of Time setting.

You can perfectly guess on which difficulty this was being played, when you see the late game, and me still getting shit on. Yup, it's not on Hard, or even the standard one :)) Game turns into a massive quick load fiesta about halfway through, my goodness. From "pretty easy", into "holy shiet how am I supposed to actually keep above 1 HP with 10 spells per second thrown at me???". And a massive lack of ammo to any of the offensively useful magic. So I have to use the most basic one with unlimited ammo. And that sucks. So yea, in about 2-3 places, cheats were used. It was getting ridiculous. To the point of me going like: Am I playing the game correctly? Do I use the wrong spells? Have I ignored some particularly powerful spells? Like, it's not EXTREMELY IMPOSSIBLY HARD, but it's close, as in, it's being played on the easiest difficulty and I still get this, am I doing something very wrong??? Weird. Also, I got lost for about an hour (cut it out from the recording) in the " the order of light compound" level, couldn't find a way to get past the first wall with the gate, so I just noclipped to the other side to see where I could have come from, and still didn't find anything? Very weird.

DO NOTE: even if it's a "modern" release, nothing much is actually changed/modernized. It's a straight up port as far as I can see, Night Dive just released it as is in this case. Cutscenes are prone to crash/hang up, not every renderer works ( found on internet d3d11/d3d10 renderers don't work as they should! Crashes on startup). Buuuuuut you can for example set FOV to something absurdly high, game itself runs fine, you can play at 120 hz or 165 hz or whatever. It's an old time classic brought back to life, that still needs tinkering to work, not out of the box unfortunately.

Love the environments, even if simple, they are the massive-scale simple, think Deus Ex and Ghost Recon 1. In this case it's definitely not open environments, they are mostly linear, but there are a shit ton of secret passages, secrets, different magic items and all. Very low polygon count limitations put to good work, is what I say.

So I'd say, this is a very good game for the time, not too complicated on the mechanics, with some logical puzzles, finding the way around using the spells constructively, good graphics, runs great, music is mighty fine (and copyrighted to hell and back). It's extremely uneven when it comes to difficulty levels, turns into a quick load fiesta, but I guess it's one of those "GIT GUD" ones, and I apparently didn't git guder. It's pretty reasonable length-wise, for a shooter that is. Not many complaints, except the difficulty and some unclear way of progressing through the particular maps/getting lost. Game definitely recommended, provided you are willing to tinker with it so it actually runs. 8/10!

Plot
The game's setting in respect to the novels is ambiguous; the storyline was said to precede the novels by some 150 years. Although Robert Jordan was consulted, the game's storyline is not considered canonical for the Wheel of Time setting.

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