Rainmaker Software's Isle of the Dead is an innovative mix of first-person shooter and point-and-click adventure game. Of course, innovation isn't always a good thing, as it often pops up on lists of the worst PC games of all time.
Thing is, this game came out in 1993. Not only did Doom, one of the greatest FPSes of all time, come out that year, so did Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers and Myst, two of the greatest point and click adventure games of all time. There is really no excuse for owning this game.
I had the original version of this game when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, killing the village drummer was actually part of a quest you had to do for the chief. He had a headache and asked you to get the guy to stop banging on the drums. Killing him was the only way to resolve it.
Well to be fair, all the gory scenes were also censored in the version with the bamboochete. Still not sure why machetes are censor-worthy and shotguns are okay, but whatever.
h o h b o i ah the 90’s. When the basis of a good game was how much sadistic violence and gore you can pack on a disk. We wonder why people are so violent these days 😭😂
I am walkin' Walkin' around Don't know what the fuck I'm doing Don't know what the fuck to do Maybe I'm goinna kill some zombies Then I'll find a place to poo Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradara Daradarararara. --Brutalmoose
I bought this game used at a yard sale in the 90's it was on several 3½-inch floppy disks. Got home and inserted the 1st disk to load it and it had been copied over with Leisure Suit Larry. Guess I dodged a bullet of a crappy game. All this time I always wondered what the game was like.
That music is a masterpiece.. I'll always shed a few tears when I hear that song playing.. me and my wife got married and chose that for or wedding song. I've never danced so Passionately to a piece of music. I'm crying right now thinking about it. And oh my don't get me started about our honey moon to this music. Let's just say it was like sea world. Very wet.
Wow. This brings back memories...memories of excitement, confusion and then disappointment. I got this game for my birthday in 6th grade or so, it looked so cool and bloody and rad. I booted it up and brother....this thing sucked balls.
Games that come with comics to explain the story... what ever happened to games doing cool shit like that? I miss drawing maps for silent hill, and writing down room coordinates for resident evil games to find all the ammo (I had a system!)
I remember being creeped out and intrigued by the box art way back in the day when I was maybe 6 or 7 and wandering around a computer store. I couldn't remember the title of the game. Years later I was almost certain Isle of the Dead was that game but the box art was nothing like what I remembered. Turns out it was the first edition I encountered back then.
he's definitely older than you are. back in the days, he bought those PCs and started a collection. he's still collecting. and when you buy something, you probably want to keep it and show it to other people in the future, which is exactly what Clint does.
I remember seeing ads for this in PC mags and being thoroughly excited as an impressionable 10 year old ... Sad to know that the actual game was shite ...
Realms of the Haunting was actually a decent attempt at fusing a point-n-click and shooter ... though neither are all that ground-breaking. Their budget was primarily used on green screening people on crappy CGI backgrounds, and hiring terrible actors to be in the those green screen rooms.
Anyone else notice how that double barrel shotgun doesn't need to be reloaded? It's like it's semiautomatic as well as has a magical, endless magazine of shotgun shells. That magically runs out when the game says you ran out of ammo.
Lazy Game Reviews i love your channel too been watching for 3 years your reviews are really cool to watch are you going to review duke nukem sometime soon bryan t
LucasGodzilla i'm really happy he did i asked him on facebook if he had plans on reviewing doom 4 he said he wasn't sure yet but he said he will cover the original
Maybe the team was just under time pressure and deadlines... This actually looks like a decent game - just not groundbreaking or "great". I would not say it can deserve the worst game ever made award.... The idea I literally like a lot and maybe gameplay is bad only because of deadlines effecting this kind of innovation badly to be honest...
It's a very shitty came, but at least they tried. ;-) The artwork and animations were pretty ambitious for such a small project. Greetings from Germany!
...excuse me while I steal your entire collection. ♥ This game you can keep, but the amount of awesome and nostalgic games at 0:15 is just...wow. I love these reviews, have no regrets about becoming a subscriber and hope you'll keep on making awesome reviews! 8D
Literally the only thing that looked good about this game was the animations and little cutscenes. Those cartoonish zombies and that art style is pretty dope.
Toonsmyth Productions is actually the RU-vid account of Myk Friedman. Sadly he passed away due to medical complications involving Diabetes from what I understand. Despite that he left a great impact on the world of animation with his fantastic style and wit. R.I.P. Myk. We'll miss you.
Wow, just seeing the start of this game I’m really interested in the concept, I love island settings and a build-engine FPS set on a tropical island would be amazing to me. The combination of the adventure mode and the FPS gameplay could be fun but I’m not sure if it’s a great game or not from the start, but I might give it a go someday.
I like to think of this game as a prequel of Techlands Dead Island, both are bad, mix genre's, and do very little to keep interest. Thinking this way explains why there are zombies in Dead Island, a fact that the game pretty much neglects.
I had no idea what this game was from the title or the box-- but then you got to the part where you're walking on the beach and I recognized that instantly. It's clear from the game that the developers had some neat ideas, but it seems for whatever reason they filtered them through the mind of a 5 year old. I think my cats could draw a better map, for example.
The game's artists seem to be skilled, judging from the look of the enemies and the animated cutscenes, so why couldn't they make better textures for the walls? I don't think fixing that would have saved the game though.
Well I wouldn't quite agree with you. Like i said the story's are pretty good because the interesting but the singleplayer is just a shot, on rail first person shooter. Multiplayer games can get repetitive but if there interesting and fun they last alot longer than just shooting people and having it be pretty much the same every game with a tweak or two. I don't know how so many people still can play this game.
LGR, I've learned more from your videos than I have in my entire 12 years of schooling... you are a f*cking modern-day god man. Keep doin what you're doin. It's people like you that give me hope for the human race
Well I battlefield because of it's huge maps. It you get bf3 you got to get amour kill expansion though most of the good maps are in that. Some of my really favorite fps game though are the tribes series. Right now i'm really enjoying this game called Chivalry: Medieval warfare, I like it because the aren't to many games like it.
Yeah the single player is fun sense they usually have nice story's and stuff but the multiplayer isn't...You Do the Exact same shit EVERY single time you play! imagine how boring that gets...And to put on top of that EVERY single game is the Exact same shit! so yeah pretty bad.
I've heard that as an alternative to stealing your grandmother's computer you can turn on fraps and enable a frame limit of 60ish to limit the effect a fast processor has on an old game. Unconfirmed by me, so feel free to scream obscenities in my direction.
Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver. omg. I had 1 and 2 and even Hot Wheels Crash Not just kiddy games.. they were absolutely stunning and ran perfect on my 7 64-bit thanks to DLing the images.. only good games from HW
I got this game on a shareware cd back in 1995. It honestly is a fun little game if you don't let the fact that it's utter trash. Honestly, and please don't laugh this game got me into programming. Also, love this video.
I stumbled across a let's play of this a couple months back and I got to say, whoever did all of the cut scene animations did a very good job. I was actually surprised the game featured a day/night cycle, though it's all superficial. I heard if you know what to do and where to go, you can actually beat the game relatively fast. Yeah, I think all of the death animations are the best part of the game, though I've never seen them all, or a compilation. Still not a good game, but I've seen worse.
Who ever made this box must of been high or trying to destroy the company for some reason...I mean I guess if it's an AMAZING knock off that's better than just a knock off...
Clint please check out "brutalmoose" whom I mentioned previously, as he did a review of this game and a couple of other PC games. Plus he's friggin hilarious.
Hey LGR did you ever play a game called Werewolves of London? it was on the Amstrad and the Spectrum as well i think. You had to go around finding and killed the people who put the werewolf curse on you :P it was pretty bad but i used to play it all the time for some reason would be cool if you ever get a copy to review it :) Great videos btw never heard of this game and quite glad i didn't actually!
As an addendum to the above I had the original 3.5 inch version and it played wonderfully on my Packard Bell 25mhz SX/2 with turbo boost although the golden performance must have been from the magic extended memory. Extended memory, that was the special memory that most games never supported and told me to go screw myself because they required Expanded memory.
talking of innovative games that failed, have you heard of jurassic park trespasser? that game was trying to do sooo much, and if they pulled it off it would had been as big as half life 2. if you dont have it i recommend finding it as its an interesting game.
I don't want to spoil it to you, but I saw Kikoskia's LP of it. While the game is awesome and has a intriguing story (even if the FMVs can be cheesy), the ending is a slap to the face. Not gratificating at all. And it has been seen a million times.
I personally have never played cod, I don't think it's as bad as people always claim it to be. I got the impression that the dislike is actually caused by its community which seems to mostly consist of annoying little kids. The single-player looks alright.
I know you probably get a lot of requests but I would love a review of Revenant. I remember trying to play the game but it would take forever to load and crash on me. I don't know if it was my computer or the game itself.
amusing review... holy balls though, that music ditty would get old VERY fast. I find it infinitely entertaining how games like this got released. any chance you'd review or at least have played the first Settlers?
Floydthefuckbag dead island is awesome this game looks like someone took a giant turd and presented as a great game lol. Nope, this game definitely isn't anything like Wolfenstein.
I suppose you know that the "fat man" joke is about the famous game musician George "the fat man" sanger, creator of games like 7th guest, 11th hour and loads of other awesome PC games :)
My ears.... terrible... Calling yourself 'Skinny Man' and composing musical crap like that truly is a disgrace to George Sanger and all the awesomeness he created.
