Very difficult game to start, but if you don't mess up it gets a lot easier. The game starts with you being parachuted down into an alien planet, that apparently you had already gone to before in a prequel, with little more then the clothes you have on your back. Your mission is to kill a group of terrorists that are trying to kill the government. You will get paid for rescuing them but apparently you don't get any equipment to help you try.
The game sounds simple and starts somewhat easy as you find food, clothes, weapons and such in a house you basically land on. Soon you realize you need all of that to live. You have to manage your hunger and your thirst. If it’s hot out then you will get thirsty. If its cold then you can freeze. You can get hurt on specific body parts in specific ways, like broken legs or arrow wounds. Injuries can fester and rot leading to them being far worse then before. Blindness results in the screen being black, hallucinations, headaches and limb loss are possible and have important effects. Luckily the game warns you of all these terrible things in very annoying ways. If you
are tired then you pant, if you have a headache then the screen will flash.
Very fun, but very challenging. You have to be able to hunt, tend your characters wounds and basically act as if you were not playing a game. One slight downside, if you don't like the challenge, is that messing up once can completely screw you over. I had figured the game out and so far managed to find and found one of the terrorists. He had been eaten by a cannibal so I did not have to kill him. I had no wounds and even found a nifty star trek phaser gun which I then used to reek havoc and slaughter a nearby primitive village. Arrows vs. phaser. All the valuable food and things I took form town swiftly became useless when, trying to camp out in a tent I find, a snake attacked. it bit me twice before I killed it with the phaser. So I did what every self-respecting person does when they realize they are poisoned with no hope to cure. I drank and ate everything I had. All my medical pills, food, some booze. Basically I forced myself to pass out several times and eventually die.
I highly recommend this game. Its great fun to try and survive out in the wilderness. Almost to the point where you forget why you are there. If the game sounds too challenging and you don't want to balance all of that, there is an option to change it so you have a health meter and food heals you but you don't starve.
