Z.A.R.

Decent 90s FPS. Gets repetitive but has great OST and good gameplay

One of the strangest boomer shooters I've ever played from the classic era. Still, it's pretty interesting in its uniqueness, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to do. This remaster does run smooth and plays great, and at least for me on my modern system, I'm not getting any DOSbox jank.

The game bugged for me on one of the levels.

Older than my mother in law and even uglier.

Yes.

Didn't know about this one until I took a look through Nightdive's backcatalogue and picked it up purely on impulse, knowing basically nothing about it, with the last fifty cents in my account - and couldn't have been more pleasantly surprised. It's this mech-suit sci-fi shooter out of some no-name Russian studio back from 1997, and it's got a bunch of cool fun weapons to play with, fully destructible terrain courtesy of a custom engine, a really rockin' soundtrack, it ran perfectly on my machine with no hiccups whatsoever freshly installed, and has one of SOVL menus I've seen in a long time. You should get this.

Gioco invecchiato male :D

Клевая игра детства. Жалко что продолжения в стиме нет.

I would have never guess to see this game again in my life. I first saw this on some old CD called over 1000 games in the late 90's. Lots of games mostly shareware and demos that you could order back then. ZAR was one of those games and level 1 Water World was its demo. I just so happen to only recognize this game via the screen shots and doubted if this was that game. Now this is not some high budget FPS game like today. This is definitely an obscure title. Simple straight forward blow em up. Does this game have a story? Yes but honestly who cares. Some crap about Zones of Artificial Resources or whatever. Again who cares. You mostly spend your time blowing up robots, and facilities. There are a couple of annoying missions like the escort type and there are small factories that constantly build robots that are best destroyed before you run out of ammo to pick up off the map. One of my favorite things about this game are the physics and super jump. Jump real high and fire a canon and watch yourself float back. Also blowing up the ground and making ravines with the tornado gun was fun. I have to admit dying in the game is not bad. You essentially become a soul and can recon the map. This can be used to your advantage if you fail a mission and come up with a better approach. I am surprised there is very little support for this game. With mods that I have seen for this on youtube this can be one cool game.

i dunno how i feel about this. on one hand i want to recommend this game because it's a pretty fun shooter, but on the other i feel like i can't because the game has a few frustrating issues. one thing the game does is it doesn't retain your weapon inventory between stages in favor of restricting your inventory and forcing you to use weapons that aren't very good for the mission at hand while there are other weapons that would be much more useful but can't be used. some missions are straight forward where you have to search and destroy stationary targets, other missions require you to find mobile targets that are much harder to find and because none of your targets show up on your map you'll often find yourself wandering the map aimlessly until you find them or die trying. it's a functional game but it's got a lot of quality of life issues that make it an all-around enjoyable game. Because of these things I cannot recommend this game.