Dark Side of War

“The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.”
~Bobby Heenan

Dark Side of Steam. If you've read my reviews of Last Escape, Planet Station, Gold Dust and PSIONIC, you know about the NL Studio. The dude who uses Raycasting Game Maker (a basic freeware tool that lets you make your own simple Wolfenstein 3D clones) to release three new levels every bloody month. Or even often. Because seriously, how long does it take to change some sprites and make three dumb levels that you can beat in just a few minutes? I'm not kidding. Even though I've never seen Dark Side of War before, that's exactly how long it took me to finish it. Five... bloody... minutes.

Just a couple of enemy types, just a couple of weapons, no story (no even basic text at the beginning), no statistics (all you get here after you finish the level is a white screen that wants you to press the Enter key to continue), no even keys (all you need to do here is to find an exit)... The NL dude doesn't bother. Like... at all. About an hour in RGM and here it is! Yet another scam for a buck. So... yeah. Here's another one of those nasty RGM scams from NL. This time in Wolfenstein 3D-like setting. Because why bother? The dude already made crappy shovelware that looked like Catacombs 3D, he made one that used enemies from Duke 3D, so... yeah. Here's some Wolf 3D for you. Because somebody needs easy money.

As usual, all I want to say is that you should seriously avoid commercial RGM products. Never worth it. Especially since the tool is very limited and comes with a big amount of technical problems. One of which is a nasty mouse bug. You want to see what Raycasting Game Maker can do? Go to IndieDB. It has a lot of completely free examples that are way better than this and at least come with a fair amount of levels. Sometimes even with some sort of basic story. But paying for such stuff? It's always a no. You can't make proper commercial game with RGM. You... just... cant. And NL Studio MOFO? It's not like anyone ever tried here. All that NL needed is just enough content to make a couple of screenshots for the Steam store page and then sell as many copies as possible before Gaben's anti-scam team will find out about all that.

Well, what can I say? Clearly, I can't even say “shame on you”. Because this kind of people? They don't have any conscience to appeal to. All they have is some basic greed. Selling something like this? It's pretty much the same thing with asking people for a couple of bucks on Facebook. What I can do, though, is to warn all of my friends. This “product”? It is not a cute lil' Wolf 3D clone. It's a shameless scam from a terrible person. Even for a couple of cents? You don't need this in your library. Avoid!

It's pretty fun, short, you can easily get stuck at levels since there is no map, but it's pretty good. I honestly thought this would be longer, you can finish this game in 6 minutes if you know your way around the map pretty well.

Looks like Wolfenstein 3D but doesn't play anything like it. Poor controls, no options, no map, ammo pick ups only go to the gun you are using, shallow gameplay. The list goes on. Avoid.