Anyone here ever played the Crusader series?

[Neb Lleb]

So, I've been installing a lot of oldschool games onto my PC, and one I've been playing lately is Crusader: No Remorse, a game I was first introduced to alongside its sequel No Regret when I dug into my dad's PC game library way back when. It's an isometric shooter that sees you step into the role of a Silencer; an elite shock trooper for a dystopian government called the World Economic Consortium. When you leave a couple of rebels alive after a raid, you're betrayed by your superiors and your platoon is killed, leaving you to go renegade and begin your Crusade against the nightmarish government and the hapless fools standing for its cause.

Yeah, as you can tell, despite a lot of FMV sequences, the story is nothing more than excuse for you to go forth and blow shit up. And blow shit up you will; once you eventually get good at the game, you're dodging, sidestepping, crouching and laying traps, blowing away mooks with your RPL-22 rifle and dismantling Servomechs with your laser weapon. The guns feel weighty and powerful, the enemy variety is solid, the difficulty is perfect hitting the right balance of "easy to learn" and "hard to master", and the violence is glorious.
The controls might turn some players off, but if you have no problem with using forward key to move and left-right to turn, space to fire, holding ctrl to dodge-roll and alt to sidestep, you will constantly be going back to No Remorse for seconds and then probably playing the sequel No Regret once you've beaten it. I know I will.

 

[redux007]

Never played it, but I did watch a lets play of it years ago. It has a good B-movie action story. Like Robo Cop meets Terminator.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

I've played No Remorse before and enjoyed it. The controls took some getting used to, but once it clicks the game is fun as hell.

 

[Neb Lleb]

I've played No Remorse before and enjoyed it. The controls took some getting used to, but once it clicks the game is fun as hell.

I forgot to mention the music, courtesy of the collective who also worked on Unreal, Unreal Tournament and the first two Deus Ex games.

 

[Ezri_Muldoon]

Good old Origin Systems, although my comfort zone with their games was always Wing Commander the Saturn port of No remorse was fun. The circular 8 Directional Pad played to the games strengths.

 

[DunkeyKong]

I've seen an article about it! Made by the great @Octopus, check here https://retrogametalk.com/threads/crusader-no-remorse-dos-blasting-gold.2979/

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

I thought we were going to spread Christianity in space......oh well this works too

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I have it on GoG.